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Transcription
"This mirror is to the praise
of Shakespeare's time.
The theatre is the mirror of life; and so it was
in the days of Ben Jonson,
and again and again
he could be lost,
Ben Jonson, Ben Jonson, John Denham, Henry Condell,
This can no more lie hid,
1461-1931
D.C.
Shakespeare
[illegible]"