Prefatory Materials (Folio 1, 1663)

1To the Reader.
  
 2This Figure, that thou here seest put,
 3 It was for gentle Shakespeare cut;
 4Wherein the Grauer had a strife
 5 with Nature, to out-doo the life :
 6O, could he but haue drawne his wit
 7 As well in brasse, as he hath hit
 8His face ; the Print would then surpasse
 9 All, that vvas euer vvrit in brasse.
 10But, since he cannot, Reader, looke
 11 Not on his Picture, but his Booke.
 12B.I.
 13MR. WILLIAM
 14SHAKESPEARES
 15COMEDIES,
 16HISTORIES, &
 17TRAGEDIES.
 18Published according to the True Originall Copies.
 19LONDON
 20Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed. Blount. 1623.

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Prefatory Materials (Folio 1, 1663)