_Print_ on my lips another kiss,
The picture of my glowing passion.
Nay, this wont do--nor this, nor this;
But now--Ay, that's a _proof impression_.
Many of Vautrollier's publications went through several editions. In the
'Merry Wives', II, 1, Mistress Page says:
These are of the second edition,
and well can we imagine Shakspere handing volumes to a buyer with the same
remark, or asking some patron with whom he was a favourite:
Com'st thou with deep premeditated lines,
With written pamphlet studiously devised?
_1 Henry VI_, iii, 1.
as the author entered with a roll of 'copy' in his hand.
In the deep mine from which the foregoing quotations have been dug, many
others would doubtless reward a more careful search. As it is, numerous
allusions, which, though plain to a printer, would seem too forced to the
general public, have been passed over. Enough, however, has probably been
brought forward to justify the belief pourtrayed in the title-page, viz.:
_That Shakspere must have passed some of his early years in a
Printing-office._