Author: William ShakespeareEditor: William GodshalkPeer Reviewed
Troilus and Cressida (Quarto 1, 1609)
THE EPISTLE.
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but for so much worth, as euen poore I know to be 0.5833stuft in it. It deserues such a labour, as well as the best 0.5934Commedy in Terence
or Plautus.
And beleeue this, 0.6035that when hee is gone, and his Commedies out of sale, 0.6136you will scramble for them, and set vp a new English 0.6237Inquisition. Take this for a warning, and at the perrill 0.6338of your pleasures losse, and Iudgements, refuse not, nor 0.6439like this the lesse, for not being sullied, with the smoaky 0.6540breath of the multitude;
but thanke fortune for the 0.6641scape it hath made amongst you. Since by the grand 0.6742possessors wills I beleeue you should haue prayd for them 0.6843rather then beene prayd. And so I leaue all such to bee 0.6944prayd for (for the states of their wits healths) 0.7045that will not praise it.