...two quarto editions in 1609. The first of these contains a very remarkable preface. ' Eternal reader, you have here a new play, never staled with the stage, never clapper-clawed with the hands of the vulgar.... Refuse not nor like this the less for not being sullied with the smoky breath...

...had also a preface by "a neuer writer to an euer reader," which began by speaking of the work as " a new play, never staled with the stage, never clapper-clawed with the palms of the vulgar." (2) Some copies have on their title-page, " The Historie of Troylus and Cresseida. As it was acted...

...Shakspeare' s Dramatic Art. X. " None More Witty." A never writer to an ever reader, News. Eternal reader, you have here a new play, never staled with the stage,...never clapper-clawed with the palms of the vulgar, and yet passing full of the palm comical ; for it is a birth of your brain that never undertook anything...

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...(ii.) with a title-page omitting this reference, and adding a preface to the effect that the play was " never staled with the stage, never clapper-clawed with the palms of the vulgar," etc. (cp. Preface). On May 20 a license for the publication of " Shakespeare's Sonnets" was granted...

...(ii.) with a title-page omitting this reference, and adding a preface to the effect that the play was " never staled with the stage, never clapper-clawed with the palms of the vulgar," etc. (cp. Preface). On May 20 a license for the publication of " Shakespeare's Sonnets " was granted...

...with a prefatory address, as follows : "A NEVER WRITER TO AN EVER READER. " NEWS. " Eternal reader, you have here a new play, never staled with the stage,...never clapper-clawed with the palms of the vulgar, and yet passing full of the palm comical ; for it is a birth of your brain that never undertook anything...

...with a prefatory address, as follows : "A NEVER WRITER TO AN EVER READER. " NEWS. " Eternal reader, you have here a new play, never staled with the stage,...never clapper-clawed with the palms of the vulgar, and yet passing full of the * palm comical ; for it is a birth of your brain that never undertook anything...

...1609. — TITLE PAGE OF FIRST EDITION, 1609. A NEVER WRITER TO AN EVER READER. NEWS. Eternal reader, you have here a new play, never staled with the stage,...never clapper-clawed with the palms of the vulgar, and yet passing full of the palm comical; for it is a birth of your brain, that never undertook anything...

...reply by the latter to the attack by Marston. On the other hand, however, Shakespeare's play ' was never staled with the stage, never clapper-clawed with the palms of the vulgar ' before its publication in 1609, presumably without the author's consent being asked. Of course it...