LIBRARY

OF THE

LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR

UNIVERSITY.

A. 3244.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1858, by
RICHARD GRANT WHITE,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Southern District
of New York.

UNIVERSITY PRESS: JOHN WILSON & SON,
CAMBRIDGE

PREL

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 surpaffe
All, that vvas ever vvrit in Braffe.
But, fince he cannot, Reader, looke
Not on his Picture, but his Booke.

B. I.