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