To all degrees of both sexes, that loue or liue by the laudable imployment of the Needle.IF any aske to whom these lines are writ,I answere, vnto them that doe inquire:For since the worlds creation none was yet,Whose wants did not the Needles helpe desire.And therefore, not to him, or her, or thee,Or them, or they, I doe not write at all:Nor to particulars of hee or shee,But generally, to all in generall.Then let not Pride looke scuruily a-scewe,Without the Needle, Pride would naked goe:Nor yet let Scorne cry pish, and tush, and mew,Scorne is forgetfull much in doing so.Nor yet let any one presume to prate,And call these lines poore trifles, by me pend:0