Page:The Tragedy of the Duchesse of Malfy (1623).pdf/4

 propagate, and shall make you arrive at the Dignity of a great Example''. I am confident this worke is not unworthy your Honors perusal for by such Poems as this, Poets have kist the hands of Great Princes, and drawne their gentle eyes to looke downe upon their sheetes of paper, when the Poets themselves were bound up in their winding-sheetes. The like curtesie from your Lordship, shall make you live in your grave, and laurell spring out of it when the ignorant scorners of the Muses ( that like wormes in Libraries, seeme to live onely, to destroy learning) shall wither, neglected, and forgotten. This worke and my selfe I humbly present to your approved censure. It being the utmost of my wishes, to have your Honorable selfe my weighty and perspicuous Comment: which grace so done me, shall ever be acknowledged''

By your Lordships

John Webster.