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This figure, that thou here seest put, It was for gentle Shakspeare cut, Wherein the graver had a strife With nature, to out-doo the life: O, could he have but drawn his wit.

As well in brase, as he hath hit His face; the print would then surpase All that was ever writ in brase But since he cannot, reader looke Not on his picture, but his booke. Ben Johnon.