and graceful dignity by it. Antipholis muft of courfe look ftrange and frown.* A beautiful drefs for Adriana may be partly taken from Bell's laft edition of this play, where her figure would please more, were it lefs affected.

Page 243.

FOR this page may be drawn a portrait of the old father Aegeon, in the ftyle of Mortimer's heads from Shakespeare; and as he is now going to execution—to the melancholy vale-it may not be improper to have his hands bound. The perufal of an affecting fpeech, will be the best guide to the painter.

OR, instead of this fingle portrait, there might be drawn the affect= ing interview between Aegeon and his fon.

Egeon. Not know my voice! Oh, time's extremity!

Haft thou fo crack'd and splitted my poor tongue,

In feven fhort years, that here my only fon
Knows not my feeble key of untun'd cares?
M

Though

I CANNOT omit obferving, how sweet a portrait might be taken from her faying, in page 179.

Hath homely age the alluring beauty took

From my poor cheek? then, he hath wafted it.

Or, from the following lines in the fame fpeech:

my decayed fairness

A funny look of his would foon repair.

Her whole fpeech must be read. Her portrait fhould be marked with that melancholy forrow fo ten derly interesting.

What high pleasure should we receive in feeing this

page

ornamented by

that artist whose genius fo highly complimented the late Dr. Goldsmith in producing Refignation-from which is taken a print, of fcarcity, and of uncommon merit.

Tail-Piece.

We have now the choice of two fubjects for the conclufion of this play. Either a half-length figure of the faffron-fac'd pinch-or, a view of the dankish vault, in which Antipholis and Dromio are confined.

If we are to have the figure of Pinch, it will be no intrufion on the rights of Romeo's Apothecary-for though their figures may be fomewhat

*WAS it not for introducing this fame Antipholis, fo very foon again, we might draw him to great. advantage in page 203, when he fays:

Oh, train me not, fweet mermaid, with thy note.

what fimilar (fharp mifery having worn them both to the bone)-yet, we shall find ourselves more interested with the poor Apothecary, and shall therefore with his figure may not be omitted in Meffrs. Boydells edition. It is not probable that any edition upon fo grand a fcale, and fimilar to Meffrs. Boydells, will ever again make its appearance. If this edition is to have one error then, it should be that of having too many engravings, rather than too few. It was the extreme poverty, and not the will of the Apothecary, that confented to mix the potent poifon-and though the circumftances of Mr. Pinch may not be in a very affluent and flourishing state-yet we view him with eyes very different from the forlorn Apothecary. The latter we should have given a dinner to-(to have gotten him into flesh)--but I am afraid Pinch muft have paid for his dinner at fome alehoufe in Ephefus. A look of dejected poverty must be given to the Apothecary-but to the other, a fharp looking one of villainy. The defcription of him in p. 240 will caufe his appearance to be that, of a living dead man; and if the engraving is a coloured one, it might add an effect to his drefs.

If the above fhould be rejected (for I do not think it a very great acquifition), we may then (unless the defigns offered in p. 179, and p. 203 are preferred) fix on the appearance which Antipholis and Dromio exhibit in the vault. They are bound it seems together; and the mafter may be very bufily gnawing with his teeth-whilst his man, whofe humour never forfakes him, (as we may fee in p. 229) may exhibit fome droll characteristic look-and Pinch may be feen peeping through an iron grate to view his patients. There is a figure of Pinch in Hanmer's edition, but it is not worth while to refer to it.* *

A LIST of fuch Prints taken from this play, as I have feen. Those I have not feen, are printed in Italics.

TROILUS AND CRESSIDA.

Or felt great Shakespeare's pow'rs controu
Each various movement of the foul,
From pity's fource compel the tear,
Or chill my throbbing breaft with fear,
Transport me through the yielding air,
And place me how he would, and where.

Vignette.

KEATE

For this department might be engraved a fac-fimile of the entire Vignette title page, prefixed to the tenth volume of Lowndes's English Theatre. This print contains the figure of the tragic muse, attended by the child of anguish, and the child of grief; and underneath. is pictured the burning of Troy,