Picture galore

[Joseph Cerrato]

While visiting Trinity College in Dublin recently, I saw in one of the
showcases a very old edition of Shakespeare's plays.
There was a portrait of the bard together with a short epigrammatic poem
which I wrote down (keeping the old spelling and all...).
What it says is relevant to the current thread(s) .

This figure that thou here feest put,
It was for gentle Shakespeare cut,
Wherein the graver had a strife
with nature to out-doo the life.
O could he but have drawne his wit
As well in braffe as he has hit
His face, the print would then surpaffe
All, that was ever writ in braffe
But, since he cannot, Reader, looke
Not on his picture but his booke.


How much of the real stuff, I mean the one I'm looking for in TRP's books,
are those (CNN and THe Times) stolen pictures offering? Well as we say in
French,poser la question c'est y répondre.

Joseph