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THE TEMPEST.

WITH

JACOB AYRER AND "THE FAIR SIDEA," etc.

IN WEEKLY VOLUMES, price 3d.; or in Cloth, 6d.

Edited by HENRY MORLEY, LL.D.

I Warren Hastings

2. My Ten Years' Imprisonment

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3. The Rivals, and the School for Scandal R. B. SHERIDAN, 4. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin.

5. The Complete Angler

6. Childe Harold

7. The Man of Feeling

8. Sermons on the Card

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9. Lives of Alexander and Cæsar

10. The Castle of Otranto

11. Voyages and Travels

12. Plays

13. The Lady of the Lake 14. Table Talk

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15. The Wisdom of the Ancients

16. Francis Bacon

17. Lives of the Poets (Waller, Milton, Cowley)

18. Thoughts on the Present Discontents, &c.

19. The Battle of the Books, &c.

20. Poems

21. Egypt and Scythia

22. Hamlet

23. Voyagers' Tales

24. Nature and Art

25. Lives of Alcibiades, Coriolanus, &c.

ISAAC WALTON.
LORD BYRON.

HENRY MACKENZIE.
BISHOP LATIMER.
PLUTARCH.

HORACE WALPOLE.

SIR JOHN MAUNDEVILLE
OLIVER GOLDSMITH.
SIR WALTER SCOTT.
MARTIN LUTHER.
FRANCIS BACON.
LORD MACAULAY.

SAMUEL JOHNSON
EDMUND BURKE,
JONATHAN SWIFT.
GEORGE CRABBE.
HERODOTUS.

WM. SHAKESPEARE.
RICHARD HAKLUYT.
MRS. INCHBALD.
PLUTARCH.

26 & 27. Life and Adventures of Baron Trenck. 2 Vols.

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34. Earlier Poems

35. The North-West Passage

36. The Sorrows of Werter

ABRAHAM COWLEY.
STEELE and ADDISON
MARCO POLO.

WM. SHAKESPEARE.
SIR T. BROWNE, M.D.

JOHN MILTON.
RICHARD HAKLUYT
GOETHE.

37. Lives of Poets (Butler, Denham, Dryden, &c. SAMUEL JOHNSON 38. Nathan the Wise

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39. Grace Abounding ..

40. Macbeth

41. The Diary of Samuel Pepys.-1662-1663. 42. Earlier Poems

43. Early Australian Voyages

44. The Bravo of Venice

45. Lives of Demetrius, Mark Antony, &c.
46. Peter Plymley's Letters, &c.
47. Travels in England in 1782..
48. Undine, and The Two Captains

49. Confessions of an Inquiring spirit, &c.
50. As You Like It

I. A Journey to the Western Islands
Scotland ..

52. A Christmas Carol, and The Chimes
53. The Christian Year

54. Wanderings in South America

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55. The Life of Lord Herbert of Cherbury 56. The Hunchback, and The Love-Chase. 57. Crotchet Castle

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LESSING.
JOHN BUNYAN.
WM. SHAKESPEARE.

ALEXANDER POPE.
JOHN PINKERTON.
M. G. LEWIS.
PLUTARCH.
SYDNEY SMITH.
C. P. MORITZ.
LA MOTTE FOUQUÉ.
S. T. COLERIDGE.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
SAMUEL JOHNSON.

CHARLES DICKENS.
JOHN KEBLE.

CHARLES WATERTON.

JAMES SHERIDAN KNOWLES
THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK.

58. Lives of Pericles, Fabius Maximus, &c.
59. Lays of Ancient Rome, &c...
60. Sermons on Evil-Speaking
61. The Diary of Samuel Pepys.-1663-1664.
62. The Tempest..

PLUTARCH.

LORD MACAULAY.
ISAAC BARROW, D.D.

WM. SHAKESPEARE.

The next Volume will be
Rosalind.-BY THOMAS LODGE.

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THE TEMPEST.

BY

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.

WITH

JACOB AYRER AND "THE FAIR SIDEA," etc.

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CASSELL & COMPANY, LIMITED:

LONDON, PARIS, NEW YORK & MELBOURNE.

1887.

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INTRODUCTION.

THE TEMPEST was first printed in the First Folio of 1623. There is no record that shows when it was first acted. For various insufficient reasons it has sometimes been regarded as the last play written by Shakespeare; and it has even been supposed that Shakespeare figured his retirement from the theatre in Prospero's resolve to break his staff. It is certain that the play was not written before the year 1603, when Florio published his translation of Montaigne; for a passage in the first scene of the Second Act is evidently founded on a passage in one of Montaigne's essays as Florio translated it, and as the poet read it in his own copy, which is now in the British Museum, containing one of the few remaining autographs of Shakespeare. As to the date of the play, there is no other certainty. It is very possible that the publication in 1610 by Silvanus Jourdan of “A Discovery of the Barmudas, otherwise called the Isle of Divels by Sir Thomas Gates, Sir George

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