Aar. O, why fhould wrath be mute, and fury
dumb?

I am no baby, I, that, with base prayers,
I fhould repent the evils I have done;
Ten thousand, worse than ever yet I did,
Would I perform, if I might have my will:
If one good deed in all my life I did,
I do repent it from my very foul.

Luc. Some loving friends convey the emperor hence,

And give him burial in his father's grave:
My father, and Lavinia, fhall forthwith
Be clofed in our houfhold's monument.
As for that heinous tyger, Tamora,

No funeral rites, nor man in mournful weeds,
No mournful bell fhall ring her burial;
But throw her forth, to beafts, and birds of prey:
Her life was beaft-like, and devoid of pity;
And, being fo, fhall have like want of pity.
See juftice done on Aaron, that damn'd Moor,
From whom our heavy haps had their beginning:
Then, afterwards, to order well the ftate;
That like events may ne'er it ruinate.

[Exeunt omnes,

THE END.

ON THE FABLE AND COMPOSITION OF

KING JOH N.

THE Troublefome Reign of King John was written in two parts, by W. Shakespeare and W. Rowley, and printed1611. But the prefent play is entirely different, and infinitely superior to it. POPE.

The edition of 1611 has no mention of Rowley, nor in the account of Rowley's works is any mention made of his conjunction with Shakespeare in any play. King John was reprinted in two parts in 1622. The first edition that I have found of this play in its prefent form, is that of 1623, in folio. The edition of 1591 I have not feen. JOHNSON.

Dr Johnson mistakes when he fays there is no mention in Rowley's works of any conjunction with Shakefpeare: the Birth of Merlin is afcribed to them jointly; though I cannot believe Shakespeare had any thing to do with it. Mr Capel is equally miftaken when he fays (pref. p. 15.) that Rowley is called his partner in the title page of the Merry Devil of Edmonton.

There must have been fome tradition, however erroneous, upon which Mr Pope's account was founded; I make no doubt that Rowley wrote the first King John: and when Shakespeare's play was called for, and could not be procured from the player3, a piratical bookseller reprinted the old one, with W. Sh. in the title page. FARMER.

The first edition of The Troublefome Raine of Jobur King of England, with the Dino of King Richard. Cordelian's haje Son, velcesty named ele Brytar conbridge; olh the Douth King John Strad Abbey-As it acts (fiandry Tws) publikely noted by the Queen's Matejpies Players in the lantralle Guis of Lou