Whatever spirits rove in earth or air,

Or bad, or good, obey his dread command;
To his behefts thefe willingly repair,
Those aw'd by terrors of his magic wand,

The which not all their powers united might withstand.

Lloyd's Progrefs of Envy, 1751.

Oh, where's the bard, who at one view
Could look the whole creation through,
Who travers'd all the human heart,
Without recourfe to Grecian art?
He fcorn'd the rules of imitation,
Of altering, pilfering, and translation,
Nor painted horror, grief, or rage,
From models of a former age;
The bright original he took,

And tore the leaf from nature's book.
'Tis Shakespeare

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In the first feat, in robe of various dyes,
A noble wildness flashing from his eyes,
Sat Shakespeare.In one hand a wand he bore,
For mighty wonders fam'd in days of yores
The other held a globe, which to his will
Obedient turn'd, and own'd a master's skill:
Things of the noblest kind his genius drew,
And look'd through nature at a fingle view:
A loofe he gave to his unbounded foul,
And taught new lands to rife, new feas to roll;
Call'd into being feenes unknown before,

And, paffing nature's bounds, was fomething more.

Churchill's Rofciad.

Names

Names of the original Actors in the Plays of Shakefpeare: From the Folio, 1623.

William Shakespeare.

Richard Burbadge.

John Hemmings.

Auguftine Phillips.

William Kempe.
Thomas Poope.
George Bryan.
Henry Condell.
William Slye.
Richard Cowly.
John Lowine.
Samuel Croffe.
Alexander Cooke.

Samuel Gilburne.

Robert Armin *.
William Oftler.
Nathan. Field †.

John Underwood.
Nicholas Tooley.
William Eccleftone.
Jofeph Taylor.
Robert Benfield.
Robert Goughe.
Richard Robinfon.
John Shanke.
John Rice.

It may appear fingular that the name of the celebrated Alleyn (founder of Dulwich College) fhould not occur in this lift of performers. But Alleyn was mafter of the Fortune playhouse, which he is faid either to have built or re-built; and therefore might have no connection with other theatres where the plays of Shakespeare were exhibited. We learn however from Langbaine, that he had been "an ornament to Black Friers." John Wilson, who appears to have acted in our author's Much Ado about Nothing, is likewife excluded from this catalogue; though Meres, in the Second Part of his Wits' Common-wealth, 1598, praising feveral who were "famous for extemporall verfe," fays, "Öf our Tarlton, doctor Cafe that learned phyfitian thus fpeaketh in the feventh book and feventeenth chapter of his Politikes; Ariftoteles fuum Theodoretum laudavit, quendam peritum tragoediarum actorem; Cicero fuum Rofcium; nos Angli Tarletonum, in cujus voce & vultu omnes jocofi affectus, in cujus cerebrofo capite lepide facetia habitant. And fo is our wittie WILSON, who, for learning and extemporall witte in this facultie, is without compare or compeere, &c." STEEVENS.

* Author of the Two Maids of Moorclacke, Com. 1609. Author of Amends for Ladies, Com. 1639, and Woman is a Weathercock, Com. 1512. He alfo affifted Maffinger in the Fatal Dowry.

A

ANCIENT EDITIONS.

OF

SHAKESPEARE's

PLAYS,

as have hitherto been met with by his different Editors.

Thofe marked with Afterifks are in no former Tables; and those which are printed in the Italic character I have never seen.

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1. Midfummer Night's Dream, William Shakespeare, 1600, Thomas Fisher.

2. D°. William Shakespeare, 1600, James Roberts.

1. Merry Wives of Windfor, William Shakespeare,
1602. T. C. for Arthur Johnson.

2. Do. William Shakespeare, 1619, for Do. ·
3. Do. William Shakespeare, 1630, T. H. for R.
Meighen.

Much Ado about Nothing, William Shakespeare,
1600, V. S. For Andrew Wife and William
Afpley.

1. Merchant of Venice, William Shakespeare, 1600. J. R. for Thomas Heyes.

2. W. Shakespeare, 1600, J. Roberts.

3. D. William Shakespeare, 1637, M. P. for Laurence Hayes.

4. D°. William Shakespeare, 1652, for William Leake.

1. Love's Labour Loft, William Shakespeare, 1598, W. W. for Cuthbert Burbey.

2. Do. William Shakespeare, 1631, W. S. for John

Smethwicke.

1. Taming of the Shrew, 1607,V.S. for Nich. Ling. 2. Do. Will. Shakespeare, 1631, W. S. for John Smethwicke.

1. King Lear, William Shakespeare, 1608, for Na-
thaniel Butter.

2. Do. William Shakespeare, 1608, for D°.
3. D°. William Shakespeare, 1655, Jane Bell.

1. King John, 2 Parts, 1591, for Sampson Clarke.
2. D°. W. Sh. 1611, Valentine Simmes, for John.
Helme.

3. D°. W. Shakespeare, 1622, Aug. Matthewes,
for Thomas Dewe.

dit. Richard II. 1597, Valentine Simmes for Andrew Wife.

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2. Richard II. William Shakespeare, 1598, Valen

tine Simmes, for Andrew Wife.

3. Do. W. Shakespeare, 1608, W. W. for Matthew Law.

4.D.William Shakespeare, 1615,for Matthew Law. 5. Do. William Shakespeare, 1634, John Norton.

1. Henry IV. Firft Part, 1598, P. S. for Andrew Wife.

2. D°. W. Shakespeare, 1599, S. S. for Do.
3. Do. 1604.

4. D. 1608, for Matthew Law.

5. D°. W. Shakespeare, 1613, W. W. for Do.
6. D. William Shakespeare, 1622, T. P. fold
by Do.

7. Do. William Shakespeare, 1632, John Norton,
fold by William Sheares. f

8. D. William Shakespeare, 1639, John Norton, "fold by Hugh Perry.

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1. Henry IV. Second Part, William Shakespeare, 1600, V. S. for Andrew Wife and William Afpley.

2. Do. 1600. D°..

These three are only copies of the fpurious play.

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XIII. XIV.

XV.

XVI.

XVII.

XVIII. *

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1. Henry V. 1600. Tho. Creede, for T. Millington, and John Busby.

2. D°. 1602, Thomas Creede, for Thomas Pavier.

3. D°. 1608, for T. P..

1. Henry VI. William Shakespeare, 1600, Val. Simmes, for Tho. Millington.

2. D°. William Shakespeare, W. W. for T. Millington, 1600.

3. D°. William Shakespeare, T. P.

1. Richard III. 1597, Valentine Simmes, for Andrew Wife.

2. D°. William Shakespeare, 1598, Thomas Creede, for D°.

3. D°. William Shakespeare, 1602, Thomas
Creede, for D°.

4. D°. William Shakespeare, 1612, Thomas
Creede, fold by Matthew Lawe.
5. Do. William Shakespeare, 1622, Thomas
Purfoot, fold by D°.

6. D. William Shakespeare, 1629, John
Norton, fold by Do.

7. D°. William Shakespeare, 1634, John Norton.

Titus Andronicus, 1611, for Edward White.

1. Troilus and Creffida, William Shake-
fpeare, 1609, G. Eld, for R. Bonian
and H. Whalley, with a Preface.

2. D°. 1609, for Do.
3. D. no Date, D°.

1. Romeo and Juliet, 1597, John Danter.
2. D°. 1599, Tho.Creede,for Cuthbert Burby.
3. D°. 1609, for John Smethwicke.
4. D°. William Shakespeare, no Date, John
Smethwicke.
5. D. William Shakespeare, 1637, R.
Young for D°.

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