THE POETICAL WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE AND BEN JONSON WITH A MEMOIR OF EACH TWO VOLUMES IN ONE BOSTON: HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY. HARVARD Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1856, By LITTLE, BROWN AND COMPANY, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massa Copyright, 1879, BY HOUGHTON, OSGOOD AND COMPANY. ADVERTISEMENT. SUCH of the Notes to the Memoir of Shakespeare as are distinguished by brackets have been added by the American Editor. The material for them has been derived principally from Collier's Life of Shakespeare. A few corrections, consisting, for the most part, of restorations of earlier readings, have been made in the Text of the Poems. |