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Ornamented with Three Portraits, by Bartolozzi, &c.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR EDWARD JEFFERY, No. 11, PALL-MALL.

Price, One Guinea in Boards.

BIBL

DIRECTIONS TO THE BINDER.

Portrait of SHAKSPEARE to face Title.

CAPELL, after his History of the Origin of SHAKSPEARE's Fables.

Earl SOUTHAMPTON before Dedication to Lucrece,

E. Blackader, Printer,

10, Took's Court, Chancery Lane.

TO THE

RIGHT HONOURABLE

HENRY WRIOTHESLY,

EARL OF SOUTHAMPTON, AND BARON OF TITCHFIELD.

RIGHT HONOURABLE,

I KNOW not how I fhall offend in dedicating my unpolished lines to your Lordship, nor how the world will cenfure me for choosing so strong a prop to fupport so weak a burthen: only if your honour seem but pleased, I account myself highly praised, and vow to take advantage of all idle hours, till I have honoured you with fome graver labour. But if the first heir of my invention prove deformed, I fhall be forry it had fo noble a godfather, and never after ear fo barren a land, for fear it yield me still so bad a harveft. I leave it to your honourable furvey, and your honour to your heart's content; which I wish may always answer your own with, and the world's hopeful expectation.

Your Honour's in all duty,

WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE.

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