DEDICATION.
with good countenance and liberall affection: I cannot but see so far into the will of him dead, that whatsoever issue of his braine should chance to come abroad, that the first breath it should take might be the gentle air of your liking: for since his selfe had been accustomed thereunto, it would proue more agreeable and thriuing to his right children, than any other foster countenance whatsoeuer. At this time seeing that this unfinished Tragedy happens vnder my hands to be imprinted; of a double duty, the one to your selfe, the other to the deceased, I present
the same to your most fauourable
allowance, offering my
vtmost selfe now and
euer to be readie,
at your Worships
disposing
E. B.[1]
- ↑ This dedication is prefixed to the first edition of Marlowe's part of the poem "Printed by Adam Islip, for Edward Blunt, 1598." It was reprinted with Chapman's continuation, "for John Flasket, 1600." Some copies of this edition have the first book of Lucan, in blank verse, appended to them. The whole poem was printed again in 1606 and 1657.
