It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That makes a wretch, or happy, rich, or poor, Divine Philosophy! SPENSER. Not harsh and crabbed as dull fools believe, SHAKSPEARE. Now must I make such amends to the courteous reader for keeping him away so long from the chiefest person in this my story as may hold him in good humour until he cometh to the end of the narration, for doubtless some may think Master Shakspeare hath not been well used of me, inasmuch as so much less hath lately been said of him than of others, but it be beyond all manner of con |