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Baptifms, Marriages, Burials, &c.

Philip, fon of John Shakfpere, was baptized Sept. 21, 1591. Samuel, fon of WILLIAM SHAKSPERE, was buried Aug. 11, 1596.

MI. John Shakfpere was buried Sept. 8, 1601.

John Hall, gent. and Sufanna Shakfpere were married
June 5, 1607.

Mary Shakfpere, widow, was buried Sept. 9, 1608.
Gilbert Shakfpere, adolefcens, was buried Feb. 3, 1611.
Richard Shakfpere was buried Feb. 4, 1612.

+ Thomas Queeny and ‡ Judith Shakfpere were married Feb. 10, 1616.

WILLIAM SHAKSPERE ||, gentleman, was buried April 25, 1616 §.

Mrs. Shakfpere was buried Aug. 6, 1623.

This gentleman was a phyfician: he married the poet's eldeft daughter.

Judith was the poet's youngest daughter.

As Shakespeare the poet married his wife from Shottery, a village near Stratford, poffibly he might become poffeffor of a remarkable boufe there, as part of her portion; and jointly with his wife convey it as part of their daughter Judith's portion to Thomas Queeny. It is certain that one Queeny, an elderly gentleman, fold it to Harvey, efq. of Stockton, near Southam, Warwickshire, father of John Harvey Thurfby, efq. of Abington, near Northampton; and that the aforefaid Harvey fold it again to Samuel Tyler, efq. whofe fifters, as his heirs, now enjoy it.

Died the 23d.

No one hath protracted the life of Shakespeare beyond 1616, except Mr. Hume; who is pleafed to add a year to it, in contradiction to all manner of evidence. FARMER. The poet's widow. She died at the age of fixty-feven.

Extracts

Extracts from the Rev. Mr. Granger's Biographical

Hiflory of England.

The PORTRAITS of SHAKESPEARE.

Vol. I. p. 259. 8vo. Edition.

"WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE; ad orig. tab. penes D. Harley ; Vertue fc. 1721; 410."

"WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, &c. Vertue fc. 1719. Done from the original, now in the poffeffion of Robert Keck of the Inner Temple, Elg.t large h fh."

"WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. In the poffeffion of John Nicoll of Southgate, Efq. Houbraken f. 1747; Illuft. Heads." "WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE; Zouft p. From a capital picture in the collection of T. Wright, painter in Covent Garden. 7. Simon f. h. fh. mézz.”.

"This was painted in the reign of Charles II."

"The portrait paimed upon Mr. Pope (I ufe the words of the late Mr. Oldys in a MS. note to his edition of Langbaine) for an original of Shakefpeare, from which he had his fine plate engraven, is evidently a juvenile portrait of K. James I." I am no judge in thefe matters, but only deliver an opinion, which if ill grounded, may be easily overthrown. The portrait, to me at leaft, has no traits of Shakespeare. The following obfervations are from the printed work of Mr. Granger. STEEVENS.

"It has been faid that there never was an original portrait of Shakespeare; but that Sir Thomas Clarges, after his death, caufed a portrait to be drawn for him, from a perfon who nearly refembled him. Mr. Walpole informs me, that the only original picture of Shakespeare is that which belonged to Mr. Keck, from whom it paffed to Mr. Nicoll, whofe only daughter married the marquis of Caernarvon. This agrees with what is faid in the Critical Review for Dec. 1770, in relation to the fame portrait, which is there also said to have been "painted either by Richard Bur

bage, or John Taylor the player, the latter of whom left it by 2u: Joseph? will to Sir William Davenant. After his death, Betterton, the page 233-280 actor, bought it; and when he died, Mr. Keck of the Temple gave forty guineas for it to Mrs. Barry the actress." Mr. Walpole adds, that Marfhall's print is genuine too, and probably drawn from the life.”

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"WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE; W. Murfhall fc. Frontif piece to his poems, 1640; 12mo."

"WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE; Arlaud del. Duchange fe.

4to."

"WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE; J. Payne fc. He is reprefented with a laurel branch in his left hand."

"WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE; L. du Guernier fc."

"WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE; Small; with feveral other heads, before Jacob's "Lives of the Dramatic Poets," 1719;

8vo."

"WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, with the heads of Jonson, &c. b. sh. mezz." VOL. II. p. 6.

"WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. Frontispiece to his plays, Folio. 1623. Martin Droefhout fc †.”

"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. Unlefs 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 Shakelpeare. There is a fall 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 firit 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 infcription.”

"Ingenio Pylium, genio Socratem, arte Maronem,
"Terra tegit, populus mæret, Olympus habet."

"Stay paffenger, why doft thou go fo faft, "Read, if thou canft, whom envious death has plac'd "Within this monument; Shakefpcare, 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. sh.”

"His monument is also done in mezz. by Miller.”

"WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: bis monument in Westminster Abbey; two prints h. sh.”

"In one of these prints, instead of The cloud-capt towers, &c. is the following infcription on a fcroll, to which he points with his finger:

"Thus Britain lov'd me, and preferv'd my fame
"Pure from a Barber's or a Benson's name.

A. POPE.

"This monument was erected in 1741, by the direc tion 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 defign of Kent *."

"On the monument is infcribed-Amor publicus pofuit. Dr. Mead objected to the word amor, as not occurring in old claffical inferiptions; but Mr. Pope, and the other gentlemen concerned, infifting that it should stand, Dr. Mead yielded the point faying,

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."

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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,
Turn reader: but obferve his comick vein,
Laugh; and proceed next to a tragick ftrain,
Then weep: fo,--when thou find'it two contraries,
Two different paffions from thy rapt foul rife,—
Say, (who alone effect fuch wonders could)

Rare Shakefpeare to the life thou dost behold.

To the Memory of my Beloved,

B. J1

the Author Mr. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, and what he hath left us.

To draw no envy, Shakespeare, on thy name,
Am I thus ample to thy book, and fame;
While I confefs thy writings to be fuch,

As neither man, nor mufe, can praife too much;
'Tis true, and all men's fuffrage: but these ways
Were not the paths I meant unto thy praise:
For feelieft ignorance on thefe may light,
Which, when it founds at beft, but echoes right;
Or blind affection, which doth ne'er advance
The truth, but gropes, and urgeth all by chance;
Or crafty malice might pretend this praise,
And think to ruin where it seem'd to raise:
These are as fome infamous bawd, or whore,
Should praise a matron; what could hurt her more?
But thou art proof against them; and, indeed,
Above the ill fortune of them, or the need:
I, therefore, will begin :-Soul of the age,
The applaufe, delight, the wonder of our stage,
My Shakespeare, rife! I will not lodge thee by
Chaucer, or Spenfer; or bid Beaumont lie

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