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<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 . . .