. The works of Shakespeare: : in seven volumes. . et itfuffice to fay, that, to clear up feveral Errorsin the Hiftorical Plays, I purpofely read overMall and Holingfteads Chronicles in theReigns concernd; all the Novels in Italian, from Ixviii The PREFACE. 1 from which our Author had borrowd any ofhis Plots; fuch Parts of Plutarch, from whichhe had derivd any Parts of his Greek or Ro-man Story: Chaucer and Spenfers Works> allthe Plays of B. Jon/on, Beaumont and Fletcher,and above 800 old Englijh Plays, to afcertainthe obfolete and uncommon Phrafes in him :Not to mention fome Labour and Pain
. The works of Shakespeare: : in seven volumes. . et itfuffice to fay, that, to clear up feveral Errorsin the Hiftorical Plays, I purpofely read overMall and Holingfteads Chronicles in theReigns concernd; all the Novels in Italian, from Ixviii The PREFACE. 1 from which our Author had borrowd any ofhis Plots; fuch Parts of Plutarch, from whichhe had derivd any Parts of his Greek or Ro-man Story: Chaucer and Spenfers Works> allthe Plays of B. Jon/on, Beaumont and Fletcher,and above 800 old Englijh Plays, to afcertainthe obfolete and uncommon Phrafes in him :Not to mention fome Labour and Pains un-lpleafantly fpent in the dry Task of confukingEtymological Glojfaries. But as no Labour of Mine can be equiva-lent to the dear and ardent Love I bear forShakefpeare, fo, if the Publick fhall be pleasdto allow that He owes any Thing to my Wil-lingnefs and Endeavours of reftoring Him ; Ifhall reckon the Part of my Life fo engagd>to have been very happily employd : and putMyfelf, with great Submiffion, to be tryd bymy Country in the Affair,. f An EPITAPH on the admirableDramatick Poet, W. Shakespeare. WHAT neede my Shakcfpeare for his honouredBonesThe Labour of an Age, in piled Stones?Or that his hallow9 d Reliques-jhould be hidUnder a ft arr-y ^pointing Pyramid ?Deare Sonne of Memory, great Heire of Fame,What needft thou fuch dull Witneffe of thy Name?Thou in our Wonder and AftonijhmentHaft built thy felfe a live-long Monument :For whir ft to thi* Shame offlow«endevouring ArtThy eafte Numbers flow, and that each HeartHath from the Leaves vf thy unvalued Booke,Thofe Delphicke Lines, fuch deep ImpreJJion tooke:Then thou, our Fancy tif her felfe bereaving,Doft make us Marble with too much conceiving :And, fo fepulcher*d, in fuch Pompe doft lie,That Kings for fuch a Tombe would wijh to die. J. Milton. f This Epitaph was written in 1630, when Milton was in hisTwo and Twentieth Year; for be was born in 1608. In Remembrance ofMatter William Shakespeare. O D E. B Eware (delighte
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