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<wk> <au>Shakespeare, William</au> <ti>The Historie of Troylus and Cresseida</ti> <dt>1601-1602</dt> <doc>ShaTroQ</doc> <ct>STC 22332 (carton 904)</ct> <ed>1609 quarto</ed> <pub>London: R.Borian and H.Halley, 1609</pub> <loc><locdoc>ShaTroQP2</locdoc><P><Pn>P2</Pn> A never writer, to an ever reader. Newes. <i>Eternall reader, you have heere a new</i> <i>play, never stal'd with the Stage</i>, <i>never clapper- clawd with the palmes</i> <i>of the vulger, and yet passing full of</i> <i>the palme comicall; for it is a birth of</i> <i>your braine, that never under- tooke</i> <i>any thing commicall, vainely: And</i> <i>were but the vaine names of commedies changde for the</i> <i>titles of Commodities, or of Playes for Pleas; you should</i> <i>see all those grand censors, that now stile them such</i> <i>vanities, flock to them for the maine grace of their</i> <i>gravities: especially this authors Commedies, that are</i> <i>so fram'd to the life, that they serve for the most com . . .