This Figure, that thou here feeft put,
It was for gentle Shakespeare cut;
Wherein the Graver had a ftrife

With Nature, to out-doe the Life:
O, could he but have drawn his Wit
As well in Braße, as he has hit
His Face; the Print would then furpaffe
All, that was ever writ in Braße.

But fince he cannot, Reader, look
Not on his Picture, but his Book

B. 7.

THE RIVAL POET

Displaying Shakespeare as a Satirist and Proving
the Identity of the Patron and the
Rival of the Sonnets

BY

ARTHUR ACHESON

With a Reprint of Sundry Poetical Pieces by

George Chapman

Bearing on the Subject

JOHN LANE: THE BODLEY HEAD
LONDON AND NEW YORK

M CM III