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PRELIMINARY MATTER TO THE

FOLIO OF 1623.

To the Reader.

This Figure, that thou here seest put,
It was for gentle Shakespeare cut;
Wherein the Grauer had a strife

with Nature, to out-doo the life.
O, could he but haue drawne his vvit
As well in braffe, as he hath hit
His face; the Print vvould then furpaffe
All, that vvas ever vvrit in Brasse.
But, fince he cannot, Reader, looke
Not on his Picture, but his Booke.

B. I.

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Earle of Pembroke, &c., Lord Chamberlaine to the Kings moft Excellent Maiefty.

AND

PHILIP,

Earle of Montgomery, &c., Gentleman of his Maiefties Bed-Chamber. Both Knights of the moft Noble Order of the Garter, and our fingular good

LORDS.

Right Honourable,

Hilft we ftudie to be thankful in our particular, for the many fauors we haue receiued from your L.L we are falne upon the ill fortune, to mingle two the most diuerfe things that can bee, feare, and rafhneffe; rashneffe in the enterprize, and feare of the fucceffe. For, when we valew the places your H.H. fuftaine, we cannot but know their dignity greater, then to defcend to the reading of thefe trifles: and, vvhile we name them trifles, we haue depriu'd our felues of the defence of our Dedication. But fince your L. L. haue heene pleas'd to thinke thefe trifles fome-thing, heeretofore; and

haue

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