SHAKSPEARE

AND

HIS TIMES

On the tip of his subduing tongue
All kind of arguments and question deep,
All replication prompt, and reason strong,
For his advantage still did wake and sleep:
To make the weeper laugh, the laugher veep,
He had the dialect and different skill,
Catching all passions in his craft of will;
That he did in the general bosom reign

Of young, of old; and sexes both enchanted

The very age and body of the time his form and pressure.

SHAKSPEARE.

PARIS PRINTED BY LACRAMPE KT CE, RUE DAMIETTE, 2

AND HIS TIMES

Including the Biography of the Poet

CRITICISM ON HIS GENIUS AND WRITINGS; A NEW CHRONOLOGY OF HIS PLAYS; A DISQUISITION ON THE
OBJECT OF HIS SONNETS; AND A HISTORY OF THE MANNERS, CUSTOMS, AMUSEMENTS,

SUPERSTITIONS, POETRY, AND ELEGANT LITERATURE OF HIS AGE.

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1843