SHAKESPEARE ILLUSTRATED.

Floriferis ut apes in saltibus omnia libant,
Omnia nos itidem depascimur aurea dicta,
Aurea, perpetuâ semper dignissima vitâ. 13.

LUCRETIUS ii.

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SHAKESPEARE

ILLUSTRATED BY OLD AUTHORS

BY

WILLIAM LOWES RUSHTON

OF GRAY'S INN, BARRISTER-AT-LAW

Corresponding Member of the Berlin Society for the Study of Modern
Languages : Author of 'Shakespeare a Lawyer,' Shakespeare's Legal

Maxims,' 'Shakespeare Illustrated by the Lex Scripta,' &c.

Multa ignoramus quoe nobis non laterent si veterum lectio

nobis fuit familiaris.—10 Co. 73.

THE FIRST PART.

LONDON :
LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO.

1867.

LONOM ANS, ARSEN, and co.