To any woman that has been no weathercock.

I did determine not to have dedicated my play to anybody, because forty shillings I care not for, and above, few or none will bestow on these matters, especially falling from so fameless a pen as mine is yet. And now I look up, and find to whom my dedication is, I fear I am as good as my determination: notwithstanding I leave a liberty to any lady or woman that dares say she has been no weathercock to assume the title of patroness to this my book. If she have been constant, and be so, all I will expect from her for my pains, is that she will continue so, but till my next play be printed, wherein she shall see what amends I have made to her, and all the sex, and so I end my epistle, without a Latin sentence.

N. F.