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To
the
Reader:
This
Figure
that
thou
here
seest
put,
It
was
for
gentle
Shakespear
cut
;
Wherein
the
Graver
had
a
strife
With
Nature
to
outdo
the
Life.
O,
could
he
but
have
drawn
his
Wit
As
well
in
Brass,
as
he
has
hit
His
Face
;
the
Print
would
then
surpass
All
that
was
ever
writ
in
Brass.
But
since
he
cannot,
Reader,
look
Not
on
his
Picture,
but
his
Book.
B.
J.
Martin
Droeshout
:
Sculpsit
-
London
-