The history of Antonio and Mellida. The first part. As it hath beene sundry times acted, by the children of Paules. Written by I.M.
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- The history of Antonio and Mellida. The first part. As it hath beene sundry times acted, by the children of Paules. Written by I.M.
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- Marston, John, 1575?-1634.
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- London :: Printed [by R. Bradock] for Mathewe Lownes, and Thomas Fisher, and are to be soulde in Saint Dunstans Church-yarde,
- 1602.
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"The history of Antonio and Mellida. The first part. As it hath beene sundry times acted, by the children of Paules. Written by I.M." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A07063.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 3, 2024.
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To the onely rewarder, and most iust poiser of vertuous merits, the most hono∣rably renowned No-body, bountious Me∣caenas of Poetry, and Lord Protector of oppressed innocence, Do, Dedicoque.
SINCE it hath flow'd with the current of my humorous bloode, to affect (a little too much) to be seriously fantasticall: here take (most re∣spected Patron) the worthlesse present of my slighter idlenes. If you vouchsaf not his protectiō then, O thou sweetest perfectiō (Female beau••tie) shield mee from the stopping of vineger bottles. Which most wished fa∣uour if it faile me; then, Sinequeo flectere superos, A∣cheronta mouebo. But yet, Honours redeemer, vertues aduancer, religions shelter, and pieties fosterer, Yet, yet I faint not in despaire of thy gratious affection & protection: to which I onely shall euer rest most seruingmanlike, obsequi∣ously making legs, and standing (after our free-borne English garbe) bare headed.
Thy onely assied slaue, and admirer, I M.