Prefatory Materials (Folio 3, 1664)
Not Peer Reviewed
To the Reader.
This Figure, that thou here seest put,_It was for gentle Shakespeare cut;Wherein the Graver had a strife_With Nature, to out-doe the Life:O, could he but have drawn his Wit_As well in Brasse, as he has hitHis Face; the Print would then surpass_All, that was ever writ in Brasse.But since he cannot, Reader, look_Not on his Picture, but his Book.
B.J.
MR. WILLIAM
SHAKESPEAR'S
Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies.
Published according to the true Original Copies.
The third Impression.
And unto this Impression is added seven Playes, never
before Printed in Folio.
viz.
Pericles Prince of Tyre.
The London Prodigall.
The History of Thomas Ld. Cromwell.
Sir John Oldcastle Lord Cobham.
The Puritan Widow.
A York-shire Tragedy.
The Tragedy of Locrine.
LONDON, Printed for P.C. 1664.