PLAYS AND POEMS

OF

SHAKSPEARE,

WITH A LIFE, GLOSSARIAL NOTES,

AND ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY ILLUSTRATIONS
FROM THE PLATES IN BOYDELL'S EDITION.

EDITED BY A. J. VALPY, M.A.

LATE FELLOW OF PEMB. COLL., OXFORD.

IN FIFTEEN VOLUMES.

VOL. XII.

LONDON:

PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY A. J. VALPY,

RED LION COURT, FLEET STREET;

AND SOLD BY ALL BOOKSELLERS.

Widely excelling in the knowlege of human nature, Shakspeare has given to his infinitely varied pictures of it, such truth of design, such force of drawing, such beauty of coloring, as was hardly ever equalled by any writer, whether his aim was the use, or only the entertainment

of mankind.

BISHOP WARBURTON.