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 To the Reader.

This Figure, that thou here eet put, It was for gentle Shakepeare cut; Wherein the Grauer had a trife with Nature, to out-doo the life : O,could he but haue drawne his wit As well in brae, as he hath hit His face; the Print would then urpae All, that was euer writ In brave. But, ince he cannot, Reader, looke Noton his Picture, but his Booke. B. I.