“It is a question hardly to be determined whether Music may esteem herself more graced by the singular skill and exquisite knowledge wherewith your Lordship is endued, or by the many benefits your bounty hath conferred on the professors of that faculty.” Setting musical skill and generous patronage as twin honours to the art · Dedication to the Earl of Hertford, A Booke of Ayres, 1606 Music Patronage Skill
