Printers in Shakspere's time often had patents granted them by which the monopoly of certain works was secured; and unscrupulous printers frequently braved all the pains and penalties to which they were liable by pirating such editions. It is this carelessness of consequences which is glanced at by Mistress Ford when debating with Mistress Page concerning the insult put upon them by the heavy old Knight, Sir John Falstaff: He cares not what he puts into the Press when he would put us two. _Merry Wives_, ii, 1. What printer is there who has put to press a second edition of a book working page for page in a smaller type and shorter measure but will recognise the Typographer's reminiscences in the following description of Leontes' babe by Paulina: Behold, my Lords, Although the _print_ be little, the whole _matter_ And _copy_ of the father ... The very _mould_ and _frame_ of hand, nail, finger. _Winter's Tale_, ii, 3. Is it conceivable that a sentence of four lines containing five distinct typographical words, three of which are especially technical, could have proceeded from the brain of one not intimately acquainted with Typography? Again, would Costard have so gratuitously used a typographical idea, had not the Poet's mind been teeming with them? I will do it, sir, in print. _Love's Labour Lost_, iii, 1. The deep indentation made on the receiving paper when the strong arm of a lusty pressman had pulled the bar with too great vigour is glanced at here: Think when we talk of horses that you see them _Printing_ their proud hoofs i' the receiving earth. _Henry V_, Chorus. The frequency with which the words _print_ or _imprint_ are used is very noticeable: The story that is _printed_ in her blood. _Much Ado about Nothing_, iv, 1. I love a ballad in _print_. _Winter's Tale_, iv, 4. She did _print_ your royal father off conceiving you. _Winter's Tale_, v, 1. You are but as a _form_ in wax, by him _imprinted_. _Midsummer-Night's Dream_, i, 1. His heart ... with your _print impressed_. _Love's Labour Lost_, ii, 1. I will do it, sir, in _print_. _Love's Labour Lost_, iii, 1. This weak _impress_ of love. _Two Gentlemen of Verona_, iii, 2. To _print_ thy sorrows plain. _Titus Andronicus_, iv, 1. Sink thy knee i' the earth; Of thy deep duty, more _impression_ show. _Coriolanus_, v, 3.