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.

Congraved by Feman

PLAYS AND POEMS

OF

SHAKSPEARE,

WITH A LIFE, GLOSSARIAL NOTES,

AND ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY ILLUSTRATIONS

FROM THE PLATES IN BOYDBERSPEDIZION.

EDITED BY A. J. MÁLPY, M.A.

LATE FELLOW OF PEMB. CO

IN FIFTEEN VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

LONDON:
PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY A. J. VALPY,

RED LION COURT, FLEET STREET ;
AND SOLD BY ALL BOOKSELLERS.

1832.