Digital facsimile of the Bodleian First Folio of Shakespeare's plays, Arch. G c.7
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L. Bar. In fewer offices? Or at least, desist
L. Bar. To builde at all? Much more, in this great worke,
L. Bar. (Which is (almost) to plucke a Kingdome downe,
L. Bar. And set another vp) should we suruey
L. Bar. The plot of Situation, and the Modell;
L. Bar. Consent vpon a sure Foundation:
L. Bar. Question Surueyors, know our owne estate,
L. Bar. How able such a Worke to vndergo,
L. Bar. To weigh against his Opposite? Or else,
L. Bar. We fortifie in Paper, and in figures,
L. Bar. Vsing the Names of men, instead of men:
L. Bar. Like one, that drawes the Modell of a house
L. Bar. Beyond his power to builde it; who (halfe through)
L. Bar. Giues o're, and leaues his part‑created Cost
L. Bar. A naked subiect to the Weeping Clouds,
L. Bar. And waste, for churlish Winters tyranny.
Hast. Hast.
Hast. Grant that our hopes (yet likely of faire byrth)
Hast. Should be still‑borne: and that we now possest
Hast. The vtmost man of expectation: