they could not conceive how there can be motion without sense, or sense without a soul.'

"The Shake-speare folio with its revised version of Hamlet came out in the same year (1623); and the passage in question, having run through all previous editions of the play, i. e., in 1604, in 1605, in 1611, and in the undated quarto, but now no longer harmonizing with the author's views, dropped out.

Prior to 1623 I find two other dramatic references to this subject.

No breath, no sense, no motion in them.
MARLOWE (Tamburlaine Pt I. v. 2.) 1590.
This serpents counsel...

mounts to my brain

and binds my prince of sense, my voluntary motion, and my life.

CHAPMAN (Blind Beggar) 1598.

Subsequent to 1623, the following

I can see nothing without sense and motion. RANDOLPH (Muses Looking Glass II 3.) 1638. Thou continual motion, cease, a pox upon thee! (striking him) Hold, hold, my lord, I am sensible!

SHIRLEY (The Traitor) III. I.) 1631. Sorrow makes him insensible. Ha! there's no motion left in his vital spirits.

CHAPMAN (Revenge for Honour IV. 1.) 1654. To die, and as I were insensible believe I had no motion.

MASSINGER (Maid of Honour Iv. 4.) 1628-1632. WRIT IN WATER

Dicit: sed mulier cupido quod dicit amanti
In vento, et rapida scribere opertet aqua.
CATULLUS (Carm. LXX.)

Men's evil manners live in brass, their virtues we write in water.

SHAKESPEARE (Henry VIII. iv. 2.) 1623. (Injuries are writ in brass.

MASSINGER (Duke of Milan v. 1.) 1623. Benefits in sand or water.

IBID (Maid of Honour v. 2.) 1628-1632. Who then to frail mortality shall trust But limns the water, or but writes in dust. BACON (1625-1629.) Favours are writ in dust, but stripes... in lasting steel.

MARSTON (Malcontent 11. 3.) 1604. Your better deeds shall be in water writ, but this [evil] in marble.

BEAUMONT & FLETCHER (Philaster v. 3.)

1613-1620. Words writ in water have more lasting

essence.

CHAPMAN (Revenge for Honour v. 3.) 1654.

OCEAN CANNOT CLEANSE

Not the wide Danubes waves

Nor Phasis stream can wash away this stain. SOPHOCLES (Edipus Tyrannus, trans. by Edwin Reed.)

Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood Clean from my hand? No.

SHAKESPEARE (Macbeth 11. 2.) 1623.

Not all the showers of rain

The heavy clouds send down can wash away The foul unmanly guilt the world will lay Upon thee.

FLETCHER (Faithful Shepherdess IV. 1.) 1610.

Not all the clouds

(The skies large canopy) could they drown

With perpetual inundation

[the seas

Can wash it ever out. Leave me I
Leave me I pray. (falls

[down) ROWLEY (All's Lost by Lust) 1633.

But could I make an ocean with my tears
The sea wants water enough to wash away
The foulness of my name.

TOURNEUR (Atheist's Tragedy Iv. 5) 1611. O what vast ocean of repentant tears can cleanse my breast from the polluting filth of ulcerous sinne?

MARSTON (Antonio and Mellida IV. 3.) 1602. BRASS-BOUND BREAST

Illi robur et aes triplex

Circa pectus erat, qui fragilem truci
Commisit pelago ratem

Primus.

HORACE (Odes 1. 3, 9.)

And 't were not hooped with steel my breast would break.

MARSTON (Antonio and Mellida v. 5) 1602. If my heart were not hooped with adamant the conceit of this would have burst it.

CHAPMAN (Bussy d'Ambois III. 1.) 1607. Had need have their breasts hoop't with adamant.

WEBSTER (Duchess of Malfi v. 2.) 1616-1623. Now patience hoop my sides with steeled ribs lest I do burst my breast.

MARSTON (Antonio and Mellida Iv. 2. pt 2.) 1602.

As if this flesh, which walls about our life, were brass impregnable.

SHAKESPEARE (Richard III. 111. 2) 1597. Wil't thou not break heart?

Are these my ribs wrought out of brass or steel?

HEYWOOD (Fair Maid of the West 111. 4.) 1617-1631.

Or be his breast hoop't with ribs of brasse. IBID (Silver Age) 1613.

SECOND SELF

It was a sparing speech of the ancients to say "that a friend is another himself, for that a friend is far more than himself... A man hath a body, and that body is confined to a place; but where friendship is, all offices of life are, as it were, granted to him and his deputy; for he may exercise them by his friend. BACON (Essay: Friendship) 1625. What are friends but one mind in two bodies. KYD (Solyman and Perseda IV. 1.) 1599. Whither in such haste my second self?... My other soul, my bosom, my hearts friend O my Andrea !

ANON (Jeronimo 1. 2.) 1588-1605.

My other self, my counsels consistory,
My oracle, my prophet, my dear cousin!
SHAKESPEARE (Richard III 11. 2.) 1597.

My second self, Francisco!

MASSINGER (Duke of Milan 111. 3.) 1623.

Strotzo! my other soul, my life!

MARSTON (Antonio & Mellida pt. 11. Act. 5.)

1602.

COMPOSITE BEAUTY

She is most beautiful of all having stolen all graces from all others.

CATULLUS (Epigram 87. trans. Ed. Reed)
The Chian painter, when he was required
To portrait Venus in her perfect hue,
To make his work more absolute desired
Of all the fairest maids to have the view,
Much more one needs to draw the semblant true
Of Beauty's queen, the world's sole wonderment,
To sharp my sense with sundry beauty's view,
And steal from each some part of ornament.

SPENSER (INTRO: to Fairy Queen) 1590.
Oh you wonder!

No wonder, Sir, but certainly a maid.

You so perfect and so peerless are created
Of every creatures best.

SHAKESPEARE (Tempest 1. 2.) 1623.

Though you borrow

From every country of the Earth the best
Of those perfections which the climate yields
To help to make her up; if put in balance
This will weigh down the scale.

You talk of wonders!

She is indeed a wonder and so kept;
And, as the world deserved not to behold
What curious Nature made without a pattern
Whose copy she hath lost.

BEAUMONT & FLETCHER (Spanish Curate1 1. 1.)
[1622-1647.

I The Spanish Curate was acted "at Court" in 1622 but unpublished until 1647. The passage from The Tempest leads to the inference that Shakespeare was present at that Court performance.