It is yours that reade him.
And there we hope, to your diuers capacities, you will finde enough, both to draw, and hold you for his wit can no more lie hid then it could be lost.

Reade him, therefore and againe and againe.

And if then you doe not like him surely you are in some manifest danger, not to vnderstand him.

And so we leaue you to other of his Friends, whom if you need can bee your guides: if you neede them not, you can leade your selues, and others.

And such Readers we wish him.
JOHN HEMINGE HENRIE CONDELL.
[Footnote A: Little more than half of Shakespeare's plays were published during his lifetime; and in the publication of these there is no evidence that the author had any hand.