SIR, Art and the love of Art continually are leagude together, It shall be no dishoner therefore for your height to imbrace the humblest endevors of those that seeke not you but your vertues: For mine own side I have beene traind up without the verge of Complement, nor can I phrase the zeale I beare you in swelling discourses. My Life hath beene a Souldier, and my idlenes addicted to Musicke, of both which I here doe offer the service to your best worthy selfe. The Acceptance I feare not, since I know great heartes are as farre from contempt, as from basenes. I rest the servant of your vertues.
Tobias Hume