PLAYS AND POEMS

OF

SHAKESPEARE,

'!

ACCORDING TO THE

IMPROVED TEXT OF EDMUND MALONE,

INCLUDING THE LATEST REVISIONS,

WITH

A LIFE, GLOSSARIAL NOTES, AN INDEX,

AND

ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY ILLUSTRATIONS,

FROM DESIGNS BY ENGLISH ARTISTS.

EDITED BY

A. J. VALPY, A.M.

FELLOW OF PEMBROKE COLLEGE, OXFORD.

IN FIFTEEN VOLUMES.

VOL. XI.

LONDON:

HENRY G. BOHN, YORK STREET, COVENT GARDEN.

1857.

Whatever other learning Shakspeare wanted, he was master of two books unknown to many of the profoundly read, though books which the last conflagration alone can destroy ;—the book of nature, and that of man.

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DR. YOUNG.