SHAKESPEARE'S

Dramatick Works..

VOLUME FIRST..

Containing
THE AUTHOR'S LIFE. MERRY WIVES OF WIND
DR. JOHNSON'S PREFACE.

SOR.
TEMPEST.

MEASURE FOR MEASURE.
TWO GENTLEMEN OF VE- COMEDY OF ERRORS.

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ILLUSTRATED WITH NOTES.

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1944

SOME ACCOUNT

OF

THE LIFE AND WRITINGS

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WILLIAM SHAKSPERE ;

WRITTEN BY N. ROWE, ESQ.

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ory of excellent men, especially of those whom their wit and learning have made famous, to deliver fome account of themselves, as well as their works, to posterity. For this reason, how fond do we fee fome people of discovering any little personal story of the great men of antiquity! Their families, the common accidents of their lives, and even their shape, make, and features have been the subject of critical enquiries. How trifling foever this curiosity may seem to be, it is certainly very natural

; and we are hardly satisfied with an account of any remarkable person, till.we have heard him defcribed even to the very cloaths he wears. As to what relates to men of letters, the knowledge of author may sometimes conduce to the better understanding his book : and though the works of Mr. Shakspere may seem to many not to want a comment, yet I fancy some little account of the man himself may not be thought improper to go along with them.

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