Excerpt from Shakespeare, Vol. 1: A Reprint of His Collected Works as Put Forth in 1623; Containing the Comedies
Hofe hands, which you fo clapt, go now, and wring You Britaines braue for done are S bake/peares dayes His dayes are done, that made the dainty Playes, Which made the Globe of heau'n and earth to ring. Dry'de is that veine, dry'd is the q/pian Spring, Turn'd all to teares, and Pbeebus clouds his rayes That corp's, that coffin now belticke thofe bayes, Which crown'd him Poet firfi, then Poets King. If Tragedies might any Prologue haue, All thofe he made, would fcarfe make one to this Where Fame, now that he gone is to the graue Deaths publique tyring -houfe) the Nuncius Is. For though his line of life went foone about, The life yet of his lines {hall neuer out.
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