The comedies, histories, tragedies, and poems of William Shakspere . II.— / have her-e a dish of doves. Mr. Brown, as we have noticed in The Tam-ing of the Shrew, has expressed his decidedconviction that some of the dramas of Shak-spere exhibit the most striking proofs that ourpoet had visited Italy. The passage before usis cited by Mr. BroT^m as one of these proofs:—Where did he obtain his numerous graphictouches of national manners 1 Avhere did helearn of an old villagers coming into the citywith a dish of doves as a present to his sonsmaster ] A present thus given, and in our daystoo, and o
The comedies, histories, tragedies, and poems of William Shakspere . II.— / have her-e a dish of doves. Mr. Brown, as we have noticed in The Tam-ing of the Shrew, has expressed his decidedconviction that some of the dramas of Shak-spere exhibit the most striking proofs that ourpoet had visited Italy. The passage before usis cited by Mr. BroT^m as one of these proofs:—Where did he obtain his numerous graphictouches of national manners 1 Avhere did helearn of an old villagers coming into the citywith a dish of doves as a present to his sonsmaster ] A present thus given, and in our daystoo, and of doves, is not uncommon in myself have pai-taken there, with due relish,in memory of poor old Gobbo, of a dish ofdoves, presented by the father of a sen^ant.—{AutoMograjyhical Poems.) ^ Scene II.— Go to, heres a simple line oflife! Palmistry, or chiromancy, had once its learnedprofessors as well as astrology. The printing-press consigned the delusion to the and physiognomy were once kin-dred sciences. The one has passed away 575. amongst other credulities belonging to ageswhich we call ignorant and superstitious. Theother, although fashionable half a centuryago, is professed by none, but, more or less, hasits influence upon all. The woodcut which wegive is copied from a little book, with whichShakspere must have been familiar :— Briefeintroductions, both natural, pleasaunte, and alsodelectable, unto the Art of Chiromancy, ormanuel divination, and Phisiognomj^: with cir-cumstances upon the faces of the Signes. Alsocertain Canons or Eules upon Diseases andSicknesses, &c. Written in y Latin tongue byJhon Indagine, Prieste, and now lately trans-lated into Englishe, by Fabian Withers. ForEichard Jugge, 1558. Launcelot, as well as hisbetters, were diligent students of the mysteriesinterpreted by John Indagine, Priest; and asimple or complex line of life were indicationsthat made even some of the Avise exult ortremble. Launcelots small trifle of w
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