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The Rape of Lucrece

THE RAPE OF LUCRECE

DEDICATION
TO THE
RIGHT HONOURABLE
HENRY WRIOTHESLEY,
EARL OF SOUTHAMPTON, AND BARON
OF TITCHFIELD
  The love I dedicate to your lordship is without end: whereof this
pamphlet, without beginning is but a superfluous moiety. The warrant I
have of your honourable disposition, not the worth of my untutored
lines, make it assured of acceptance. What I have done is [...]

Henry V, Prologue

Can this cockpit hold the vasty fields of France? Or may we cram within this Wooden O the very casques that did affright the air at Agincourt?