212 Baptifms, Marriages, Burials, &c. Philip, fon of Jolin Shakfpere, was baptized Sept. 21, 1591. Samuel, fon of WILLIAM SHAKSPERE, was buried Aug. 11, 1596. 2 Mr. John Shakfpere was buried Sept. 8, 1601. John Hall, gent. and Sufanna Shakfpere were married June 5, 1607. Mary Shakipere, widow, was buried Sept. 9, 1608. Gilbert Shakfpere, adolefcens, was buried Feb. 3, 1611. Richard Shakfpere was buried Feb. 4, 1612. + Thomas Quecny and ↑ Judith Shakspere were married Feb. 10, 1616. WILLIAM SHAKSPERE, gentleman, was buried April 25, 1616§. Mrs. Shakfpere was buried Aug. 6, 1623. *This gentleman was a phyfician: he married the poet's eldeft daughter. Judith was the poet's youngest daughter. As Shakespeare the poet married his wife from Shottery, a village near Stratford, poflibly he might become poffeffor of a remarkable house there, as part of her portion; and jointly with his wife convey it as part of their daughter Judith's portion to Thomas Queeny. It is certain that one Queeny, an elderly gentle man, fold it to --- Harvey, efq. of Stockton, near Southam, Warwickshire, father of John Harvey Thurfby, efq. of Abing ton, near Northampton; and that the aforefaid Harvey fold it again to Samuel Tyler, efq. whose fifters, as his heirs, now enjoy it. Died the 23d. § No one hath protracted the life of Shakespeare beyond 1616, except Mr. Hame; who is pleafed to add a year to it, in contradiction to all manner of evidence. FARMER. The poet's widow. She died at the age of fixty-seven. Extracts Extracts from the Rev. Mr. Granger's Biographical Hifiory of England. The PORTRAITS of SHAKESPEARE. Vol. I. p. 259. 8vo. Edition. "WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE; ad orig. tab. penes D. Harley; Vertue fc. 1721; 4'0*.” . "WILLIAM SHAKESPEARF, &c. Vertue fc. 1719.. Done from the original, now in the poffeffion of Robert Keck of the Inner Temple, Eft large h fh." « WILLIAM SHAKESPEAREL In the poffeffion of John Nicoll of Southgate, Eff. Houbraken fe. 17475 Illuft. Heads" "WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE; Zouf p. From a capital picture in the collection of T. Wright, painter in Covent Garden. Simon f. b. fh. mezz.". "This was painted in the reign of Charles I." "The portrait palmed upon Mr. Pope (I ufe the words of the late Mr. Oldys in a MS. note to his edition of Langbaine) for an original of Shakespeare, from which he had his fine plate engraven, is evidently a juvenile portrait of K. James I." I am no Judge in thefe matters, but only deliver an opinion, which if ill grounded, may be easily overthrown. The portrait, to me at leait, has no traits of Shakespeare. The following obfervations are from the printed work of Mr. Granger. STEEVENS. "It has been faid that there never was an original portrait of Shakespeare; but that Sir Thomas Clarges, after his death, caufed a portrait to be drawn for him, from a perfon who nearly refembled him. Mr. Walpole informs me, that the only original picture of Shakespeare is that which belonged to Mr. Keck, from whom it paffed to Mr. Nicoll, whofe only daughter married the marquis of Caernarvon. This agrees with what is faid in the Critical Review for Dec. 1770, in relation to the fame portrait, which is there alfo faid to have been "* painted either by Richard Burbage, or John Taylor the player, the latter of whom left it by will to Sir William Davenant. After his death, Betterton, the actor, bought it; and when he died, Mr. Keck of the Temple gave forty guineas for it to Mrs. Barry the actress." Mr. Walpole adds, that Marshall's print is genuine too, and probably drawn from the life." " WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE; W. Marshall fc. Frontif piece to his poems, 1640; 12mo*." "WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE; Arlaud del. Duchange fc. 4to." "WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE; Payne fc. He is reprefented with a laurel branch in his left hand." "WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE; L. du Guernier fc." "WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE; small; with feveral other beads, before Jacob's "Lives of the Dramatic Poets," 1719; 8v0." "WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, with the heads of fonfon, &c. h.fb. mezz.' VOL. II. p. 6. "WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. Frontispiece to his plays, Folio. 1623. Martin Droefhout fc +." "This print gives us a truer representation of Shakefpeare, than feveral more pompous memorials of him; if the teftimony of Ben Jonfon may be credited, to whom he was perfonally known. Unless we fuppofe that poet to have facrificed his veracity to the turn of thought in his epigram (annexed to it) which is very improbable; as he might have been eafily contradicted by feveral that muft have remembered fo celebrated a perfon. The author of a letter from Stratford upon Avon, printed in the Gentleman's Magazine, about twenty years fince, informs us, that this head is as much like his monumental effigy, as a print can be.". "WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE; R. Earlem f. large o&tavo, mezz. neat. Engraved for a new edition of Shakespeare's works.”, "This print is faid to be from an original by Cornelius Janfen, in the collection of C. Jennens, Efq. but as it is dated in 1610, before Janfen was in England, it is highly probable that it was not painted by him; at leaft, that he did not paint it as a portrait of Shakespeare." The reader will find a faithful copy of this head, prefixed to the will of Shakespeare. There is a small head of Shakespeare in an oval, before his Rape of Lucrece, republished in 12mo. 1655, with the banishment of Tarquin, by John [the fon of Philip] Quarles but it is apparently copied from the first folio.STEEVENS, From this print the head of Shakespeare prefixed to our prefent edition is engraved, : STEEVENS. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: his monument at Stratford; der his but is the following infcription." Ingenio Pylium, genio Socratem, arte Maronem, "Stay paffenger, why doft thou go fo faft, Ob. An°. Dai. 1616. Et. 53. "Vertue fc. Small h. sh.” lo?" His monument is alfo dane in mezz by Miller." "WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: bis monument in Weflminster Abley; two prints b. fb." "In one of thefe prints, instead of The cloud-capt towers, 1904 is the following infeription on a fcroll, to which he 25. Thus Britain lov'd me, and prefervid my fame A. POPE. adi ni batang,mork gom broche On the monument is inferibed Amor publicus pofuit. Dr. Mead objected to the word amor, as not occurring in old claffical infcriptions; but Mr. Pope, and the other gentlemen concerned, infifting that it fhould stand, Dr. Mead yielded the point faying, Omnia vincit amor, et nos cedamus amori. This anecdote was communicated by Mr. Lort, late Greek protellen of Cambridge, who had it froin Dr. Mead himfelf." Ancient and Modern Commendatory VERSES on SHAKESPEARE. Upon the Effigies of my worthy Friend, the Author Mafter WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, and his Works. Spectator, this life's fhadow is;-to fee Turn reader: but obferve his comick vein, To the Memory of my Beloved, AB: J, TO 1 the Author Mr. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, and what he hath left us. To draw no envy, Shakespeare, 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 men's fuffrage: but these ways Were not the paths I meant unto thy praife: For feelicft ignorance on thefe may light, Which, when it founds at beft, but echoes right'; Or blind affection, which doth ne'er advance rates tall The truth, but gropes, and urgeth all by chance;" Or crafty malice might pretend this praife, And think to ruin where it feem'd to raife: 72 "A little |