...RIGHT HONOURABLE HENRY WRIOTHESLY, EARL OF SOUTHAMPTON, AND BARON OF TITCHFIELD. RIGHT HONOURABLE, I KNOW not how I shall offend in dedicating my unpolished...for choosing so strong a prop to support so weak a burthen : only if your honour seem but pleased, I account myself highly praised, and vow to take advantage...

...Since to enumerate the books consulted in the preparation of this small volume would require an apology for " choosing so strong a prop to support so weak a burden," a general acknowledgment must take the place of detailed mention. In questions of terminology and kindred...

...Right Honourable Henry Wriothesley, Earl of Southampton and Baron of Tichfield. "Right Honourable, I know not how I shall offend in dedicating my unpolished...the world will censure me for choosing so strong a proppe to support so weake a burthen ; onely if your Honour seeme but pleased, I account myself highly...

...HONORABLE HENRIE WRIOTHESLEY EARL OF SOUTHAMPTON AND BARON TICHFIELD. - Right Honorable, unpolisht lines to your Lordship, nor how the world will censure me for choosing so strong a proppe to support so weak a burden: only if your honour seem but pleased, I account myself highly praised,...

...support by their authority the weak fabric of this my Touchstone of Antiquity " etc. " I know not . . . how the world will censure me for choosing so strong a prop to support so weak a burden." Interest is added to the parallelism by the fact that Venus and Adonis is dedicated to Henry Wriothesly,...

...the Right Honourable Henry Wriothesley Earl of Southampton and Baron of Titchfield. Right Honourable I know not how I shall offend in dedicating my unpolished...prop to support so weak a burden; only if your honour seems but pleased, I account myself highly praised, and vow to take advantage of all idle hours till...

...Wriothesley, Earl of Southampton and Baron of Titchfield." The first, of Venus and Adonis, ran thus : " I know not how I shall offend in dedicating my unpolished...a burden, only if your Honour seem but pleased, I count myself highly praised, and vow to take advantage of all idle hours till I have honoured you with...

...there can be no doubt. This is how the poet addresses the nobleman — I extract a few sentences — ' I know not how I shall offend in dedicating my unpolished lines to your lordship. . . only, if your Honour seem but pleased, I account myself highly praised, and vow to take advantage...

...Lucrece. The earlier dedication is marked by appropriate formality and dignity of tone: "Right Honourable, I know not how I shall offend in dedicating my unpolished lines to your Lordship," — with no suggestion of personal acquaintance, much less intimacy. The second, preceding Lucrece,...

...Lucrece. The earlier dedication is marked by appropriate formality and dignity of tone: "Eight Honourable, I know not how I shall offend in dedicating my unpolished lines to your Lordship,"—with no suggestion of personal acquaintance, much less intimacy. The second, preceding...