[Issue-tracker-bugs] S I did deliver with the Manuscripts to my

[Sudbeck D. <va...@my...>]

Player and did write plays--which were acceptable even to the Queen's
Majesty's

self--and I set this down not from vanity to shew I have
held converse with such, nor to give a seemingness
and colour to my story, but to shew what ill-judged, misinformed knaves
were they who did afterwards attribute friendship between my Lord and
this Will Shakespeare, even to the saying that he made sonnets to my
Lord. Howbeit, my Lord was exceeding wroth, and I, to beguile him, did
propose that we should
leave our horses and cargoes of manuscript behind and cross on the ice
afoot, which conceit pleased him mightily