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This is to to diftinguish rightly between Horror and Terror. The latter is a proper paffion of Tragedy, but the former ought always to be carefully avoided. And certainly no dramatick Writer ever fucceeded better in raifing Terror in the minds of an audience than Shakefpear has done. The whole Tragedy of Macbeth, but more efpecially the scene where the King is murder'd, in the fecond act, as well as this Play, is a noble proof of that manly fpirit with which he writ; and both fhew how powerful he was, in giving the strongest motions to our fouls that they are capable of. I cannot leave Hamlet, without taking notice of the advantage with which we have feen this Master-piece of Shakespear diftinguish itself upon the ftage, by Mr. Betterton's fine performance of that part. A man, who tho' he had no other good qualities, as he has a great many, must have made his way into the efteem of all men of letters, by this only excellency. No man is better acquainted with Shakespear's manner of expreffion, and indeed he has ftudy'd him fo well, and is fo much a master of him, that whatever part of his he performs, he does it as if it had been written on purpose for him, and that the Author had exactly conceiv'd it as he plays it. I muft own a particular obligation to him, for the moft confiderable part of the paffages relating to this life, which I have here tranf mitted to the publick; his veneration for the memory of Shakespear having engaged him to make a journey into Warwickshire, on purpose to gather up what remains he could, of a name for which he had fo great a veneration. KATO MISU słodw

ted to us by John Anftis, Efq; Garter King at Arms: It is mark'd, G. 13. P. 349.

[There is alfo a Manufcript in the Heralds Office, mark'd W. 2. p. 276; where notice is taken of this Coat, and that the Perfon to whom it was granted, had born Magistracy at Stratford upon Avon.]

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O all and fingular Noble and Gentlemen of all Estates and Degrees, bearing Arms, to whom thefe Prefents fhall come; William Dethick, Garter Principal King of Arms of England, and William Camden, alias Clarencieulx, King of Arms for the South, Eaft, and Weft Parts of this Realm, fend Greetings. Know ye, that in all Nations and Kingdoms the Record and Remembrance of the valiant Facts and virtuous Difpofitions of worthy Men have been made known and divulged by certain Shields of Arms and tokens of Chivalrie; the Grant or Teftimony whereof apperteineth unto us, by virtue of our offices from the Queen's moft Excellent Majefty, and her Highness's most noble and victorious Progenitors: Wherefore being follicited, and by credible Report informed, that John Shakespere, now of Stratford upon Avon in the County of Warwick, Gentleman, whofe Great Grandfather for his faithful and approved Service to the late moft prudent Prince, King Henry VII. of famous Memory, was advanced and rewarded with Lands and Tenements, given to him in thofe Parts of Warwickshire, where they have continued by fome Descents in good Reputation and Credit; And for that the faid John Shakespere having married the Daughter and one of the Heirs of Robert Arden of VOL. I. Wellingcote

Wellingcote in the faid County, and alfo produced this his ancient Coat of Arms, heretofore affigned to him whilft he was her Majefty's Officer and Bailiff of that Town. In confideration of the Premifes, and for the Encouragement of his Pofterity, unto whom fuch Blazon of Arms and Atchievements of Inheritance from their faid Mother, by the ancient Custom and Laws of Arms, may lawfully defcend; We the faid Garter and Clarencieulx have affigned, granted, and confirmed, and by these Presents exemplified unto the faid John Shakespere, and to his Pofterity, that Shield and Coat of Arms, viz. In a Field of Gold upon a Bend Sables a Spear of the first, the Point upward, beaded Argent; and for his Creft or Cognifance, A Falcon, Or, with his Wings displayed, standing on a Wreathe of bis Colours, fupporting a Spear armed beaded, or feeled Silver, fixed upon an Helmet with Mantles and Talfels, as more plainly may appear depicted in this Margents And we have likewife impaled the fame with the ancient Arms of the faid Arden of Wellingcote; figni fying thereby, that it may and fhall be lawful for the faid John Shakefpere, Gent, to bear and use the fame Shield of Arms, fingle or impaled, as aforefaid, during his natural Life; and that it fhall be lawful for his Children, Iffue, and Pofterity, lawfully begotten, to bear, ufe, and quarter, and fhew forth the fame, with their due Differences, in all lawful warlike Feats and civil Ufe or Exercises, according to the Laws of Arms, and Cuftom that to Gentlemen belongeth, without Let or Interruption of any Perfon or Perfons, for ufe or bearing the fame. In Witness and Teftimony whereof we have fubfcribed our Names, and faftned the Seals of our Offices. Given at the Office of Arms, London, the Day of in the Forty

fecond Year of the Reign of our moft Gracious Sove reign Lady Elizabeth, by the Grace of God, Queen of England, France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, &c. 1599.

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MEMORY of my beloved the AUTHOR,

Mr. WILLIAM SHAKESPEAR,

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And what he hath left us.

O draw no envy (Shakespear) on thy Name,
Am I thus ample to thy Book, and Fame:
While I confefs thy writings to be fuch,
As neither Man, nor Mufe can praife too much.
'Tis true, and all mens fuffrage. But thefe wayes
Were not the paths I meant unto thy praife:
For feelieft Ignorance on thefe may light,

Which, when it founds at best, but ecchoes right
Or blind Affection, which doth ne'er advance
The truth, but gropes, and urgeth all by chance;
Or crafty Malice might pretend this praife,
And think to ruine, where it feem'd to raife.
Thefe are, as fome infamous Baud, or Whore,
Should praife a Matron. What could hurt her more?
But thou art proof against them, and indeed
Above th' ill fortune of them, or the need.
I therefore will begin, Soul of the Age!
The applaufe! delight! the wonder of our Stage!
My Shakespear rife; I will not lodge thee by
Chaucer, or Spenfer, or bid Beaumont ye
A little further, to make thee a room :
Thou art a Monument without a Tomb,
And art alive ftill, while thy Book doth live,
And we have wits to read, and praise to give.
That I not mix thee fa, my brain excufes;

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with but difproportion'd Mufes:
For if I thought my judgment were of years,
I should commit thee furely with thy Peers,

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And tell how far thou didst our Lily out-shine,
Or Sporting Kid, or Marlow's mighty Line.
And though thou hadst fmall Latin and lefs Greek,
From thence to honour thee, I would not feek
For names; but call forth thund'ring fchylus,
Euripides, and Sophocles to us,

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Pacuvius, Accius, him of Cordova dead,
To live again, to hear thy Buskin tread,

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And shake a Stage: Or, when thy Socks were on,
Leave thee alone for the comparison

Of all, that infolent Greece, or haughty Rome
Sent forth, or fince did from their afbes come.
Triumph, my Britain, thou hast one to show,
To whom all Scenes of Europe homage owe.
He was not of an age, but for all time!
And all the Mufes, ftill were in their prime,
When like Apollo he came forth to warm
Our ears, or like a Mercury to charm!
Nature herself was proud of his defignes,
And joy'd to wear the dreffing of his Lines!
Which were fo richly fpun, and woven fo fit,
As, fince, he will vouchsafe no other wit.
The merry Greek, tart Ariftophanes,
Neat Terence, witty Plautus, now not please ;
But antiquated, and deferted lye,

As they were not of Nature's family.
Yet must I not give Nature all: Thy Art,
My gentle Shakespear, must enjoy a part.
For the the Poet's matter Nature be,

His Art doth give the Fashion. And, that he
Who cafts to write a living line, must fweat,
(Such as thine are) and frike the fecond heat
Upon the Mules Anvile; turn the fame,
(And himself with it) that he thinks to frame;
Or for the Lawrel, he may gain a fcorn,
For a good Poet's made, as well as born.
And fuch wert thou. Look how the Father's face
Lives in his Ifue, even fo the race

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