The Table book; . uousthan in those of Shakspeare, but only mereconspicuous inasmuch as in Heywood thesequalities are primary,in the other subordinate*o poetry. I love them both equally, but Shakspeare has most of my wonder. Heywood should be known to his countrymen,as he deserves. His plots are almost inva-riably English. I am sometimes jealous,that Shakspeare laid so few of his scenes athome. I laud Ben Jonson, for that in oneinstance having framed the first draught ofhis Every Man in his Humour in Italy,he changed the scene, and Anglicised hischaracters. The names of them in theFirst Editio
The Table book; . uousthan in those of Shakspeare, but only mereconspicuous inasmuch as in Heywood thesequalities are primary,in the other subordinate*o poetry. I love them both equally, but Shakspeare has most of my wonder. Heywood should be known to his countrymen,as he deserves. His plots are almost inva-riably English. I am sometimes jealous,that Shakspeare laid so few of his scenes athome. I laud Ben Jonson, for that in oneinstance having framed the first draught ofhis Every Man in his Humour in Italy,he changed the scene, and Anglicised hischaracters. The names of them in theFirst Edition, may not be unamusing , , Juu, (the same in English. Stephano (Master Stephen.) Dr. Clement (Justice Clement.) Bobadilla (Bobadil.) Musco. Cob (the same in English.) Peto. Pizo. Matheo (Master Mathew.) How say you, Reader? do not MasterKitely, Mistress Kitely, Master , &c. read better than these Cis-alpines ? For the Table Book. On January 6th, 1815, died at Lynn,Norfolk, at an advanced age, (supposed 151 THE TABLE BOOK about seventy, tLis eccentric individual,whose ptoper name, Wjlliam Monson. hndbecome nearly obliterate;! by his profes-sional arpellalion of Biliji Boots ; havineffoliiiwed the liumble employment of shoe-black for a Ioniser period than the greaterpart of the inhabitants could was reported, (and lie always professedhimself to be,) the illegitimate son of anobleman, whose name he bore, by a MissCractoft. Of his early days little is known,except from tht reminiscences of conversa-tion which the writer of this article at timesheld with him. From thence it appears,that having received a respectable educa-tion, soon after leaving school, he quittediiis maternal home in Lincolnshii-e, andthrew himself upon the world, from whencehe was sought out by some of his paternalDrothers, with the intention of providingand fixing him in comfortable circumstan-ces ;
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