Sylva Sylvarum (1631 English edition)

but the times of your Majesty’s ancestors (during the time and reign of King Henry VIII) would have been the subject. Since that project remained only a plan original: "died under the designation merely", there is nothing left but for your Majesty’s princely goodness graciously to accept the undertaker’s heart meaning the heart of the person who took on the task of publishing this work, William Rawley and intentions. He was willing to have set aside for a while his beloved philosophy so that he might have followed your royal command in that other work the intended history of Henry VIII. I have been bold enough, in all humility, to represent this to your Majesty as one who was trusted with his Lordship’s writings even to the last. And just as this work seeks the stamp of your Majesty’s royal protection to make it more widely accepted original: "currant" to the world; so, under the protection of this work, I presume in all humility to approach your Majesty’s presence and to offer it up into your sacred hands.