He had three daughters, of which two lived to be married; Judith, the elder, to one Mr. Thomas Quiney, by whom he had three fons, who all died without children; and Susannah, who was his favourite, to Dr. John Hall, a phyfician of good reputation in that country. She left one child only, a daughter, who was married first to Thomas Nash, Efq. and afterwards to Sir John Bernard, of Abingdon; but died likewife without iffue. The character of Shakspeare, as a man, is best seen in his writings: but fince Ben Jonson has made a fort of an effay towards it in his Difcoveries, I will give it in his words: "I remember the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakspeare, that in writing, whatsoever he penned, he never blotted out a line. My answer had been, Would he had blotted a thoufand! which they thought a malevolent fpeech. I had not told pofterity this, but for their ignorance, who chofe that circumftance to commend their friend by, wherein he most faulted; and to justify mine own candour: for I loved the man, and do honour his memory, on this fide idolatry, as much as any. He was indeed honeft, and of an open and free nature; had an excellent fancy, brave notions, and gentle expreffions, wherein he flowed with that facility that fometimes it was neceffary he fhould be stopped: fufflaminandus erat, as Auguftus faid of Haterius. His wit was in his own power; would the rule of it had been fo too! Many times he fell into thofe things which could not escape laughter; as when he faid in the perfon of Cæfar, one speaking to him, "Cæfar, thou doft me wrong;" he replied, "Cæfar did never wrong but with just cause:" and fuch like, which were ridiculous. But he redeemed his vices with his virtues. There was ever more in him to be praised than to be pardoned." THE BEAUTIES OF SHAKSPEARE. ADMIRATION. ALL tongues fpeak of him, and the bleared fights While the chats him: the kitchen malkin pins Her richest lockram 'bout her reechy neck, Clambering the walls to eye him. Stalls, bulks, windows, In earnestness to fee him: feld shown flamens Coriolanus, A. 2. Sc. 1. ADVERSITY. Sweet are the uses of adverfity; Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, As You Like It, A. 2. Sc. 1. ADVICE. Be thou bleft, Bertram, and fucceed thy father B Do Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy All's Well that Ends Well, A. 1. Sc. ADVICE то GIRLS. I. -Beware of them, Diana! their promises, enticements, oaths, tokens, and all these engines of luft, are not the things they go under: many a maid hath been feduced by them; and the mifery is, example, that fo terribly fhews in the wreck of maidenhood, cannot for all that diffuade fucceffion, but that they are limed with the twigs that threaten them. Ibid. A. 3. Sc. 1. AFFECTION. That chafe thee from thy country, and expose Of the none-sparing war? and is it I That drive thee from the sportive court, where thou Of fmoky mufquets? O you leaden meffengers, Fly with falfe aim! move the ftill piercing air, Ibid. A. 3. Sc. I. 'Twas pretty, though a plague, But But now he's Ibid. A. 1. Sc. 1. If I depart from thee, I cannot live ; And in thy fight to die, what were it else, But like a pleasant flumber in thy lap? Here could I breathe my foul into the air, As mild and gentle as the cradle babe Dying with mother's dug between its lips. Henry VI. Part II. A. 4. Sc. 9. AFFLICTION. -No, no, no, no! come, let's away to prison; As if we were God's fpies. And we'll wear out, ALLEGIANCE. -Though perils did Abound as thick as thought could make 'em, and Henry VIII A. 3. Sc AMBITION. Nay, then, farewell! I've touch'd the highest point of all my greatnefs; I hafte now to my fetting. I fhall fall, Ibid. A. 3. Sc. 2. Tis a common proof, That lowliness is young Ambition's ladder, B 2 Whereto Whereto the climber upwards turns his face; Julius Cæfar, A. 2. Sc. 1 Why, then I do but dream on fov'reignty, And chides the fea that funders him from thence, Oh, Silius, Silius, Henry VI. Part III. A. 3. Sc. 3. I've done enough. A lower place, note well, Acquire too high a fame, when he we ferve's away. Ant. and Cleop. A. 3. Sc. 1. AMBITIOUS LOVE. It were all'one That I fhould love a bright particular ftar, Muft die for love. All's Well that Ends Well, A, 1. Sc. I. ANARCHY. -My foul akes To know, when two authorities are up, Neither fupreme, how foon confufion May enter 'twixt the gap of both, and take The one by the other. Coriolanus, A. 3. Sc. 1. ANGER. Stay, my Lord! And let your reafon with your choler question A full |