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H.CHETTLE: KIND-HARTES DREAME(1592) FROM: G.B. HARRISON (ED.): ELIZABETHAN
AND JACOBEAN QUARTOS, LONDON, NO YEAR, P.9,L.3 TO P.30,L.12
GENTLEMEN AND GOOD-FELLOWES, (WHOSE KINDNES =HAVING CHRISTENED MEE WITH 012010
THE NAME OF KIND-HEART, BINDES ME IN ALL KIND COURSE I CAN +TO DESERVE 012020
THE CONTINUANCE OF YOUR LOVE) LET IT NOT SEEME STRANGE (I BESEECH YE) 012030
THAT HE THAT ALL DAYES OF HIS LIFE HATH BEENE FAMOUS FOR =DRAWING TEETH, 012040
SHOULD NOW IN =DROOPING AGE HAZARD CONTEMPTIBLE INFAMY BY =DRAWING 012050
HIMSELFE INTO PRINT.@ FOR SUCH IS THE FOLLY OF THIS AGE, SO WITLESSE, SO 012060
AUDACIOUS, THAT THERE ARE SCARCE SO MANYE PEDLERS BRAG THEMSELVES +TO BE 012070
PRINTERS BECAUSE THEY HAVE A BUNDEL OF BALLADS IN THEIR PACKE, AS THERE 012080
BE IDIOTS THAT THINKE THEMSELVES ARTISTS, BECAUSE THEY CAN ENGLISH AN 012090
OBLIGATION, OR WRITE A TRUE STAFFE TO THE TUNE OF FORTUNE.@ THIS FOLLY 012100
=RAGING UNIVERSALLY, HATH INFIRED ME, +TO WRITE THE REM . . .
