WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

After the Droeshout Portrait in the First Folio, 1623

This Figure, that thou here feeft put,
It was for gentle Shakespeare 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 braffe, as he hath hit
His face; the Print would then furpaffe
All, that vvas euer vvrit in braffe.
But, fince he cannot, Reader, looke

Not on his Picture, but his Booke.
B.I.

OF

SHAKESPEARE

TEXT OF THE OXFORD EDITION PREPARED BY
J. CRAIG; WITH A GENERAL INTRODUCTION
BY ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE; INTRO-
DUCTORY STUDIES OF THE SEVERAL
PLAYS BY EDWARD DOWDEN

AND A FULL GLOSSARY