Digital facsimile of the Bodleian First Folio of Shakespeare's plays, Arch. G c.7
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Iaq. O knowledge ill inhabited, worse then Ioue in
Iaq. a thatch'd house.
Clo. Clo.
Clo. When a mans verses cannot be vnderstood, nor
Clo. a mans good wit seconded with the forward childe, un
Clo. derstanding: it strikes a man more dead then a great rec
Clo. koning in a little roome: truly, I would the Gods hadde
Clo. made thee poeticall.
Aud. Aud.
Aud. I do not know what Poetical is: is it honest in
Aud. deed and word: is it a true thing?
Clo. No trulie: for the truest poetrie is the most fai
Clo. ning, and Louers are giuen to Poetrie: and what they
Clo. sweare in Poetrie, may be said as Louers, they do feigne.
Aud. Do you wish then that the Gods had made me
Aud. Poeticall?
Clow. Clow.
Clow. I do truly: for thou swear'st to me thou art ho