sustaine, we cannot but know their dignity greater, then to descend to
the reading of these trifles: and, vvhile we name them trifles, we haue
depriu'd our selues of the defence of our Dedication. But since your
L.L. haue beene pleas'd to thinke these trifles something, heereto
with so much fauour: we hope, that (they outliuing him, and he not
hauing the fate, common with some, to be exequutor to his owne wri
tings) you will use the like indulgence toward them, you haue done
vnto their parent. There is a great difference, vvhether any Booke
they were acted, as before they vvere published, the Volume ask'd to
ther of selfeprofit, or fame: onely to keepe the memory of so worthy
ble offer of his playes, to your most noble patronage. Wherein, as