"WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE; W. Murfball fc. Frontif piece to his poems, 1640; 12mo*." "WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE; Arlaud del. Duchange fc. 4to." "WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE; J. Payne fc. He is reprefented with a laurel branch in his left hand." "WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE; L. du Guernier fe.” "WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE; Small; with feveral other beads, before Jacob's "Lives of the Dramatic Poets," 1719; 8vo." "WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, with the heads of Fonfon, &c. b.fb. mezz." VOL. II. p. 6. "WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. Frontispiece to his plays, Folio. 1623. Martin Droefhout fe+." "This print gives us a truer reprefentation of Shakefpeare, than feveral more pompous memorials of him; if the testimony of Ben Jonfon may be credited, to whom he was perfonally known. Unless we fuppofe that poet to have facrificed his veracity to the turn of thought in his epigram (annexed to it) which is very improbable; as he might have been eafily contradicted by feveral that must have remembered fo celebrated a perfon. The author of a letter from Stratford upon Avon, printed in the Gentleman's Magazine, about twenty years fince, informs us, that this head is as much like his monumental effigy, as a print can be." "WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE; R. Earlom f. large octavo, mezz. neat. Engraved for a new edition of Shakespeare's works.’ "This print is faid to be from an original by Cornelius Janfen, in the collection of C. Jennens, Efq. but as it is dated in 1610, before Janfen was in England, it is highly probable that it was not painted by him; at least, that he did not paint it as a portrait of Shakespeare." The reader will find a faithful copy of this head, prefixed to the will of Shakespeare. There is a finall head of Shakespeare in an oval, before his Rape of Lucrece, republished in 12mo. 1655, with the banishment of Tarquin, by John [the fon of Philip] Quarles: but it is apparently copied from the first folio.STEEVENS. From this print the head of Shakespeare prefixed to our prefent edition is engraved. STEEVENS. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: his monument at Stratford; under his buft is the following inscription.” Ingenio Pylium, genio Socratem, arte Maronem, "Stay paffenger, why doft thou go fo faft, "Read, if thou canft, whom envious death has plac'd "Within this monument; Shakespeare, with whom "Quick nature dy'd; whofe name doth deck the tomb "Far more than coft; fince all that he has writ "Leaves living art but page to ferve his wit." Ob. An°. Dai, 1616. Et. 53 "Vertue fc. fmall h. fh." "His monument is also done in mezz. by Miller." "WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: his monument in Westminster Abbey; two prints h. fb.” "In one of these prints, inftead of The cloud-capt towers, &c. is the following infcription on a feroll, to which he points with his finger: "Thus Britain lov'd me, and preferv'd my fame A. POPE. "This monument was erected in 1741, by the direction of the Earl of Burlington, Dr. Mead, Mr. Pope, and Mr. Martin. Mr. Fleetwood and Mr. Rich, gave each of them a benefit towards it, from one of Shakespeare's own plays. It was executed by Scheemaker, after a design of Kent *." "On the monument is infcribed-Amor publicus pofuit. Dr. Mead objected to the word amor, as not occurring in old claffical infcriptions; but Mr. Pope, and the other gentlemen concerned, infifting that it fhould ftand, Dr. Mead yielded the point saying, Omnia vincit amor, et nos cedamus amori. This anecdote was communicated by Mr. Lort, late Greek profeffor of Cambridge, who had it from Dr. Mead himself." Ancient and Modern Commendatory VERSES on SHAKESPEARE. Upon the Effigies of my worthy Friend, the Author Mafter WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, and his Works. Spectator, this life's fhadow is;-to fee The truer image, and a livelier he, To the Memory of my Beloved, B. J. the Author Mr. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, and what he hath left us. To draw no envy, Shakespeare, on thy name, A little A little further, to make thee a room *: And * This and the next lines have reference to the following epitaph on Shakespeare, written by Dr. Donne, and printed among his poems: "Renowned Spenfer, lie a thought more nigh "To learned Chaucer, and rare Beaumont lie "For Shakespeare in your threefold, fourfold tomb. "Until doomsday; for hardly will a fifth "Sleep, Fare tragedian; Shakespeare, fleep alone! STEEVENS. Lylly wrote nine plays during the reign of Q. Eliz. viz. Alexander and Campafpe, T. C; Endymion, C; Galatea, C; Love bis Metamorphofis, Dram. Paft; Maid her Metamorphofis, C; Mother Bombie, C; Mydas, C; Sapho and Phao, C; and Woman in the Moon, C. To the pedantry of this author perhaps we are indebted for the first attempt to polish and reform our language. See his Euphucs and his England. STEEVENS. or porting Kyd. It appears from Heywood's Actor's Vindication that Thomas Kyd was the author of the Spanish Tragedy. The late Mr. Harkins was of opinion that Soliman and Perfeda was by the fame hand. The only piece however, which has defcended to us, even with the initial letters of his name affixed to it, is Pompey the Great his fair Cornelia's Tragedy, which was first published in 1594, and, with fome alteration in the title-page, again in 1595. This is no more than a tranflation from Robert Garnier, a French poct, who diftinguished himself during the And though thou hadft fmall Latin, and lefs Greek,- Pacuvius, Accius, him of Cordova dead; Of all, that infolent Greece, or haughty Rome, As they were not of Nature's family. of his age. reigns of Charles IX. Henry III. and Henry IV. and died at Mans in 1607, in the 56th year STEEVENS. § or Marlow's mighty line.] Marlow was a performer as well as an author. His contemporary Heywood calls him the best of poets. He wrote fix tragedies, viz. Dr. Fauftus's Tragical Hiftory; K. Edward II; few of Malta; Luft's Dominion; Maffacre of Paris; and Tamburlaine the Great, in two parts. He likewife joined with Nah in writing Dido Queen of Carthage, and had begun a tranflation of Mufæus's Hero and Leander, which was finished by Chapman, and publifhed in 1606. STEEVENS. And |