To the Reader.
This Figure, that thou here feest 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 dravvne his vvit
As vvell in brasse, as he hath hit
His face; the Print vvould then surpasse
All, that vvas euer in frasse.
But, since he cannot, Reader, looke
Not on his picture, but his Booke.
B. I.
MR. William
SHAKESPEARES
Comedies,
Histories&
Tragedies,
Published according to the True Original Copies
London
Printed by Ifaac Iaggard, and Ed, Bount. 1623
TO THE MOST NOBLE
AND
INCOMPARABLE PAIRE
OF BRETHREN
WILLIAM
Earle of Pembroke, &c;. Lord Chamberlaine to the
Kings most Excellent Majesty.
A N D
PHILIP
Earle of Montgomery, &c;. Gentleman of his Majesties
Bed-Chamber. Both Knights of the most Noble Order
