Fresh to all ages: when posterity

Shall loath what’s new, thinke all is prodigy

That is not Shakespeare’s; ev’ry line, each verse,

Here shall revive, redeem thee from thy hearse.

Nor fire, nor cankering age, as Naso said,

Of his, thy wit-fraught Book, shall once invade.

Nor shall I e’er believe, or think thee dead

(Though missed), until our bankrout Stage be sped

(Impossible) with some new strain t’ out-do

Passions of Juliet, and her Romeo;