PLAYS AND POEMS

OF

SHAKESPEARE.

WITH

ONE HUNDRED and SEVENTY ILLUSTRATIONS,

FROM DESIGNS BY EMINENT ARTISTS.

EDITED BY

A. J. VALPY, A. M.,

FELLOW OF PEMBROKE college, oxford.

FIFTEEN VOLUMES IN EIGHT.

VOL. III.

TROY, N. Y.

H. B. NIMS & COMPANY.

-For lofty sense,

Creative fancy, and inspection keen

Through the deep windings of the human heart,

Is not wild Shakspeare thine and Nature's boast?

THOMSON.

Shakspeare was the man, who, of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul. All the images of Nature were still present to him, and he drew them not laboriously, but luckily; when he describes any thing, you more than see it, you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning, give him the greater commendation: he was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature; he looked inwards, and found her there.

DRYDEN.

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