By the kind permission of Messrs Macmillan & Co. and W. Aldis Wright, Esq., the text here

used in that of the "Cambridge" Edition.

WEE wondred (Shake-speare) that thou went'st so soone
From the Worlds-Stage to the Graves-Tyring-roome.
Wee thought thee dead. but this thy printed worth,
Tels thy Spectators, that thou went'st but forth
To enter with applause. An Actor's Art
Can dye, and live to acte a second part.

That's but an Exit of Mortalitie;
This, a Re-entrance to a Plaudite.

I. M.