TO WINIFRED


My dear,
I would dedicate this book to you, if dedications any longer meant anything, and if I were not, with the rest of us in our hurry, shy and clumsy at making a gesture. I had better stand aside, I think, and let one of your Elizabethans do the trick for me as it should be done.
Reginald Scot is speaking:
"I do not present this unto you because it is meet for you; but for that you are meet for it (I meane) to judge upon it, to defend it. I hope you will read it, or at the least, lay it up in your study with your other books, among which, and this is sure, there is none dedicated to any with more good will.
"Your sincere and loving friend-----"
H. S.
Queen Anne Street, London.