. An inquiry into the authenticity of certain miscellaneous papers and legal instruments, published Dec. 24, MDCCXCV. and attributed to Shakspeare, Queen Elizabeth, and Henry, Earl of Southampton: illustrated by fac-similes of the genuine hand-writing of that nobleman, and of Her Majesty; a new fac-simile of the hand-writing of Shakspeare, never before exhibited; and other authentic documents: in a letter addressed to the Right Hon. James, Earl of Charlemont. word Accedo: * To come, approach, resem-ble, assent, to be added, increased, includedin. Here we do not find accede, an un-questionable
. An inquiry into the authenticity of certain miscellaneous papers and legal instruments, published Dec. 24, MDCCXCV. and attributed to Shakspeare, Queen Elizabeth, and Henry, Earl of Southampton: illustrated by fac-similes of the genuine hand-writing of that nobleman, and of Her Majesty; a new fac-simile of the hand-writing of Shakspeare, never before exhibited; and other authentic documents: in a letter addressed to the Right Hon. James, Earl of Charlemont. word Accedo: * To come, approach, resem-ble, assent, to be added, increased, includedin. Here we do not find accede, an un-questionable proof that the word was theilunknown. Blount in the fifth edition of hisGlossographia, (1681,) though profess-ing to interpret the hard words oi whateverlanguage now used in our English tongue,has it not; neither is it found in so late ahookas Kerseys English Dictionary, 1708.—We have here therefore a word unknown toour language for near a century after thedeath of the person by whom it is pretendedto have been used. If this be not a decisiveproof of forgery, I know not what has atitle to be considered as one. Even the French, who perhaps adoptedthis word from the Latm before us, had itnot in Shakspeares time, for it is not noticedby Cotgrave in 1611, nor by Howel orSherwood in 1650 ; so that probably it wasintroduced even among them, after the Re-storation. IX. X. XI. i^hv Cu>- LCJhcP-^ C^&^i/)x^- Jj^cl^i-i^J- Yc^(t>- ^.St> rH/j,,>-. 4 ?J- jy!--i^orl?^ lo^.A- A [ 205 ] IX. X. XL A Letter from Shak-SPEARE TO Richard Cowley, &c. The piece next presented to us in thisMisceikmy, is a pretended Letter from Shak-speare to Richard Cowley, a low actor whoplayed the part of Verges in Much adoABOUT Nothing ; and who, if we are tocredit these papers, was our poets bosomfriend. Like the greater part of these fic-tions, it (very prudently) has no date, exceptMarche ny/iihe. In this epistle Shakspearesays to his woithye freynde^—* Havingealwaye accountedde thee a Pleasa
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