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The Prologue.

A subiect, of no subiect, we present,
for No-body, is Nothing:
Who of nothing can something make?
Jt is a worke beyond the power of wit,
And yet inuention is ripe:
A morrall meaning you must then expect,
grounded on lesser then a shadowes shadow:
Promising nothing wher there wants a toong;
And deeds as few, be done by No-bodie:
Yet something, out of nothing, we will shew,
To gaine your loues, to whome our selues we owe.