. The works of Shakespeare : in seven volumes : collated with the oldest copies, and corrected, with notes, explanatory, and critical. THE (0 Comedy ^Errors,. ACT I. SCENE, the Dukes Palace. Enter the *Duke of Ephefus, /Egeon, Jailor,and other Attendants. JE G E O N. Roceed, Salinus^ to procure my Fall,And by the doom of death end woes and• all. Duke. Merchant of Syracufa^ plead nomore y I am not partial to infringe our laws:The enmity, and difcord, which of late Sprung (i) Comedy of Errors.] The Controverfy of our Authors Ac-quaintance with the Latine Tongue has been partly canvaisd upon hish
. The works of Shakespeare : in seven volumes : collated with the oldest copies, and corrected, with notes, explanatory, and critical. THE (0 Comedy ^Errors,. ACT I. SCENE, the Dukes Palace. Enter the *Duke of Ephefus, /Egeon, Jailor,and other Attendants. JE G E O N. Roceed, Salinus^ to procure my Fall,And by the doom of death end woes and• all. Duke. Merchant of Syracufa^ plead nomore y I am not partial to infringe our laws:The enmity, and difcord, which of late Sprung (i) Comedy of Errors.] The Controverfy of our Authors Ac-quaintance with the Latine Tongue has been partly canvaisd upon hishaving writ this Play. * It is in great Meafure taken (fays Mr. Ro<we)u. from the Mentechmi of Plautus. How That happened, I cannot eaiily divine; fmce I do not take him to have been Matter of Latine enough to read it in the Original: and I know of no Tranflation of Plautus fo old as his Time.— Thus far, his Acquaintance with the RomanLanguage is father difputed, than afcertaind. Let us fee, What Mr. Gil-don has obfervd upon This. I confefs, with SubmifEon to the Writer of. his Life, that I can find no fuch Need of Divination on this Head. For as
Size: 1546px × 1616px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookauthorshakespearewilliam15641616, booksubjectshakespearewil
