Lordshippes most bounden,
JOHN HEMINGE.
HENRY CONDELL.
To the great Variety of Readers.
From the most able, to him that can but spell: There you are
number'd. We had rather you were weighd. Especially, when the
fate of all Bookes depends upon your capacities: and not of your
heads alone, but of your purses. Well! It is now publique,& you
wil stand for your priviledges wee know: to read, and censure.
Do so, but buy it first. That doth best commend a Booke, the
Stationer saies. Then, how odde soever your braines be, or your
wisedomes, make your licence the same, and spare not. Judge
your six-pen'orth, your shillings worth, your five shillings worth at
a time, or higher, so you rise to the just rates, and welcome. But,
whatever you do, Buy. Censure will not drive a Trade, or make
the Jacke go. And though you
