When Learning's triumph o'er her barbarous foes
First rear'd the Stage, immortal Shakspeare rose;
Each change of many-color'd life he drew,
Exhausted worlds, and then imagined new:
Existence saw him spurn her bounded reign,
And panting Time toil'd after him in vain.
His powerful strokes presiding Truth impress'd,
And unresisted Passion storm'd the breast.

JOHNSON.

A loose he gave to his unbounded soul,

And taught new lands to rise, new seas to roll;
Call'd into being scenes unknown before,

And, passing Nature's bounds, was something more.

CHURCHILL.

PLAYS AND POEMS

OF

SHAKSPEARE,

WITH A LIFE, GLOSSARIAL NOTES,

AND ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY ILLUSTRATIONS FROM THE PLATES IN BOYDÉLIS EDITION.

EDITED BY A. J. VÁLPY, M.A.

LATE FELLOW OF PEMB. COLL., OXFORD.

IN FIFTEEN VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

LONDON:

PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY A. J. VALPY,
RED LION COURT, FLEET STREET;

AND SOLD BY ALL BOOKSELLERS.

1832.

S. 51. e. 3.1.