To the Lady Elizabeth Claypole.

Madam,

I present you here with my Love's Dominion, to which you are no stranger having the art, by your many excellent qualities, to make yourself honoured and beloved of all. Neither is it a stranger unto you, you having been pleased to like it, when I made you but a confused relation of it and will much more now, I hope, representing it more clearly to your view. I must entreat you to favour it a little, for never a more innocent thing appeared in court, and I do not know how much it would be out of countenance, were it not encouraged and countenanced by you; for the rest, I dare not interest you in its more public representation, not knowing how the palace of the time may relish such things yet, which, till it was disgusted with them, was formerly numbered amongst its chiefest dainties and is so much longed for still by all the nobler and better sort, as could it but be effected by your mediation, you should infinitely oblige them all and in particular,

Madam,

Your most humble, obedient and obliged servant,

Richard Flecknoe.