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it is before limited to be, and to remain to the first, second, and third sons of her body, and to their heirs males; and for default of such issue, the said premises to be and remain to my said niece Hall, and the heirs males of her body lawfully issuing and for default of such issue, to my daughter Judith, and the heirs males of her body lawfully issuing; and for default of such issue, to the right heirs of me the said William Shakespeare for ever.

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Item, I give unto my wife my second-best bed, with the furniture.

Item, I give and bequeath to my said daughter Judith, my broad silver-gilt bowl. All the rest of my goods, chattels, leases, plates, jewels, and household stuff whatsoever, after my debts and legacies are paid, and my funeral expenses discharged, I give, devise, and bequeath to my son-in-law, John Hall, Gent., and my daughter Susanna, his wife, whom I ordain and make

my daughter Susanna Hall, for the better enabling her to perform this my will, and towards the performance thereof, all that capital messuage or tenement, with the appurtenances, in Stratford aforesaid, called The New Place, wherein I now dwell, and two messuages or tenements with the appurtenances, situate, lying, and being in Henley Street, within the borough of Stratford aforesaid; and all my barns, stables, orchards, gardens, lands, heredi. taments whatsoever, situate, lying, and being, or to be had, reserved, preserved, or taken within the towns, hamlets, villages, fields, and grounds of Stratford-upon-Avon, Old Stratford, Bishopton, and Welcome, or in any of them, in the said county of Warwick; and also all that messuage or tenement, with the appurtenances, wherein one John Robinson dwelleth, situate, lying, and being in the Blackfriars in London, near the Wardrobe; and all my other lands, tenements, and hereditaments whatso-executors of this my last will and testament. ever; to have and to hold all and singular the said premises, with their appurtenances, unto the said Susanna Hall, for and during the term of her natural life; and, after her decease, to the first son of her body lawfully issuing; and to the heirs males of the said first son lawfully issuing; and for default of such issue, to the second son of her body lawfully issuing, and to the heirs males of the body of the second son lawfully issuing; and for default of such heirs, to the third son of the body of the said Susanna lawfully issuing; and for default of such issue, the same to be and remain to the fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh sons of her body, lawfully issuing one after another, and to the heirs males of the bodies of the said fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh sons lawfully issuing, in such manner as

And I do entreat and appoint the said Thomas Russell, Esq., and Francis Collins, Gent., to be overseers hereof. And do revoke all former wills, and publish this to be my last will and testament. In witness whereof, I have hereunto put my hand, the day and year first above written.

By me,

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.

Witness to the publishing hereof.
FRA. COLLYNS,
JULIUS SHAW,
JOHN ROBINSON,
HAMNET SADLER,
ROBERT WHATCOTT.

THE DEDICATION OF THE PLAYERS,

PREFIXED TO THE FOLIO OF 1623.

To the most noble and incomparable pair of brethren, William Earl of Pembroke, &c., Lord Chamberlain to the King's most excellent Majesty, and Philip Earl of Montgom ery, &c., Gentleman of his Majesty's bedchamber; both Knights of the most noble order of the Garter, and our singular good lords.

RIGHT HONOURABLE,

Whilst we study to be thankful in our particular for the many favours we have received from your L. L., we are fallen upon the ill fortune, to mingle two the most diverse things that can be, fear and rashness-rashness in the enterprise, and fear of the success. For when we value the places your H.H. sustain, we cannot but know their dignity greater than to descend to the reading of these trifles; and

while we name them trifles, we have deprived ourselves of the defence of our dedication. But since your L. L. have been pleased to think these trifles something heretofore, and have prosecuted both them and their author living with so much favour, we hope that (they outliving him, and he not having the fate, common with some, to be executor to his own writings) you will use the like indulgence toward them you have done unto their parent. There is a great difference whether any book choose his patrons, or find them: this hath done both. For so much were your L.L. likings of the several parts when they were acted, as before they were published, the volume asked to be yours. We have but collected them, and done an office to the dead, to procure his orphans guardians; without ambition either of self-profit or fame; only to keep the memory of

fault to approach their gods by what means they could: and the most, though meanest, of things are made more precious when they are dedicated to temples. In that name, therefore, we most humbly consecrate to your H.H. these remains of your servant Shakespeare, that what delight is in them may be ever your L. L., the reputation his, and the faults ours, if any be commit

so worthy a friend and fellow alive as was our Shakespeare, by humble offer of his plays to your most noble patronage. Wherein, as we have justly observed no man to come near your L.L. but with a kind of religious address, it hath been the height of our care, who are the presenters, to make the present worthy of your H.H. by the perfection. But there we must also crave our abilities to be considered, my lords.ted by a pair so careful to shew their gratitude We cannot go beyond our own powers. Coun- both to the living and to the dead as is try hands reach forth milk, cream, fruits, or Your Lordships' most bounden, what they have; and many nations, we have heard, that had not gums and incense, obtained their requests with a leavened cake. It was no

JOHN HEMINGE,
HENRY CONDELL.

THE PREFACE OF THE PLAYERS,

PREFIXED TO THE FOLIO OF 1623.

To the great variety of readers. FROM the most able to him that can but spell: there you are numbered. We had rather you were weighed especially when the fate of all books depends upon your capacities; and not of your heads alone, but of your purses. Well, it is now public; and you will stand for your privileges, we know-to read and censure. Do so, but buy it first: that doth best commend a book, the stationer says. Then how odd soever your brains be or your wisdoms, make your licence the same, spare not. Judge your six-pen'orth, your shillings-worth, your five-shillings-worth at a time, or higher, so you rise to the just rates, and welcome. But, whatever you do, buy. Censure will not drive a trade, or make the jack go. And though you be a magistrate of wit, and sit on the stage at Blackfriars or the Cockpit, to arraign plays daily, know, these plays have had their trial already, and stood out all appeals, and do now come forth quitted rather by a decree of court than any purchased letters

of commendation.

It had been a thing, we confess, worthy to have been wished, that the author himself had lived to have set forth and overseen his own writings. But, since it hath been ordained otherwise, and he by death departed from that right, we pray you do not envy his friends the

office of their care and pain, to have collected and published them; and so to have published them as where (before) you were abused with divers stolen and surreptitious copies, maimed and deformed by the frauds and stealths of injurious impostors that exposed them, even those are now offered to your view cured and perfect of their limbs, and all the rest absolute in their numbers as he conceived them; who, as he was a happy imitator of nature, was a most gentle expresser of it: his mind and hand went together; and what he thought, he uttered with that easiness, that we have scarce received from him a blot in his papers. But it is not our province, who only gather his works and give them you, to praise him. It is yours that read him : and there we hope, to your divers capacities, you will find enough both to draw and hold you; for his wit can no more lie hid than it could be lost. Read him, therefore; and again and again: and if then you do not like him, surely you are in some manifest danger not to understand him. And so we leave you to other of his friends, whom if you need, can be your guides: if you need them not, you can lead yourselves and others. And such readers we wish him.

JOHN HEMINGE,
HENRY CONDELL.

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Tit. And. 456
K. Rich. II. 239
Mea. for Mea. 46
Abram, servant to Montague..... Rom. & Jul. 472
Achilles, Grecian commander.. Troil. & Cress. 412
Adam, servant to Oliver......As You Like It 137
Adrian, a Neapolitan lord..
Tempest

...Ibid.

1
Adriana, wife to Antipholus of Ephesus......
Com. of Err. 63
Egeon, a merchant of Syracuse.....Ibid. 63
Emilia, wife to Egeon....
63
Emilius, a noble Roman............ Tit. And. 456
Eneas, a Trojan commander.. Troil. & Cress. 412
Agamemnon, Grecian general.... ..Ibid. 412
Agrippa, friend to Cæsar......Ant. and Cleo. 604
Ajax, Grecian commander....Troil. & Cress. 412
Alarbus, son to Tamora...... Tit. And. 456
Alcibiades, an Athenian general.. Tim.of Ath. 491
Alex. Iden, a Kentish gentleman...
2 K. Hen. VI. 331
Alexander, servant to Cressida..
Troil, and Cress. 412
Alexus, attendant on Cleopatra.....

1

Ant. and Cleo. 604
Alice, a lady attendant on the Princess
Katharine of France....... .K. Hen. V. 294
Alonso, king of Naples...
Tempest
Amiens, lord attending on the banished
duke......
..As You Like It 137
Andromache, wife to Hector.. Troil. & Cress. 412
Angelo, a goldsmith.
.Com. of Err. 63
Meas. for Meas. 46
Angus, a Scottish nobleman.. .........Macbeth 522
Anne Bullen, afterwards queen...
K. Hen. VIII. 392
An old widow of Florence.....
All's W. that Ends W. 170
Antenor, a Trojan commander..

Angelo, duke of Vienna's deputy..

Troil. and Cress. 412
Antigonus, a Sicilian lord...... Win. Tale 203
Antiochus, king of Antioch............Pericles 648
Antipholus of Ephesus
twin brothers.......
Antipholus of Syracuse

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BAGOT, creature to King Richard II...

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K. Rich. II. 239

Balthazar, servant to Portia.... Mer. of Ven. 121
Balthazar, a merchant.... .Com. of Err. 63
Balthazar, Don Pedro's servant...Much Ado 74
Balthazar, servant to Romeo.... Rom. & Jul. 472
Banquo, a Scottish general. ..Macbeth 522
Baptista, a gentleman of Padua...

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Biron, attending on King

Bishop of Lincoln...
Bishop of Winchester
Bishop of Ely

.Othello 583

Tam. of Shrew 154
Ferdinand..

Love's Lab. Lost 90
..K. Hen. VIII, 392
....1 K. Hen. VI. 314
K. Hen. V. 294
Bishop of Carlisle.......
.K. Rich. II. 239
Blanch, niece,to King John.
K. John 223
Bolingbroke, a conjuror........2 K. Hen. VI. 331
Bona, sister to the French Queen.....
3 K. Hen. VI. 351
Borachio, follower of Don John...Much Ado 74
Boult, a servant
Pericles 648
Bottom the weaver............Mid. N. Dream 107
Boy, servant to Bardolph, &c. ...K. Hen. V. 294
Boyet, attending on the Princess of France..
Love's Lab. Lost 90
Brabantio, a Venetian senator Othello 583
Bullcalf, a recruit
2 K. Hen. IV. 274
Busby, creature to King Richard II...

C

K. Rich. II. 239

CATHNESS, a Scottish nobleman......Macbeth 522
Caius Lucius, a Roman general ...Cymbeline 626
Caius Marcius Coriolanus.
Coriol. 433

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Caliban, servant to Prospero.......Tempest 1
Calchas, a Trojan priest..... Troil. and Cress. 412
Calphurnia, wife to Cæsar...........Jul. Cæs. 506
Camillo, a Sicilian lord.. ...... Win. Tale 203
Canidius, lieut. -general to Antony...

Ant, and Cleo. 604
Caphis, a servant..
Tim. of Ath. 491
Capucius, an ambassador....K. Henry VIII. 392
Capulet, an Italian noble......Rom. and Jul. 472
Cardinal Beaufort, Bishop of Winchester....
2 K. Hen. VI. 331

Cardinal Campeius.......... .K. Hen. VIII. 392
Cardinal Wolsey.
Ibid. 392
Cardinal Pandulph, Pope's legate...K. John 223
Cardinal Bouchier, archb. of Canterbury....
K. Rich. III. 369
Casca, conspirator against Cæsar...Jul. Cæs. 506
Cassio, Othello's lieutenant............. Othello 583
Cassius, conspirator against Cæsar..Jul. Cæs. 506
Cassandra, a prophetess....... Troil. & Cress. 412
Celia, daughter to Duke Frederick...

As You Like It 137
..Tempest 1

Ceres, a spirit...
Cerimon, a lord of Ephesus.. ...Pericles 648
Charles the wrestler... As You Like It 137
Charles, dauphin, afterwards king of France
1 K. Hen. VI. 314
Charles VI., king of France......K. Hen. V. 294
Charmian, attendant on Cleopatra.......

Ant. and Cleo. 604
Chatillon, French ambassador........K. John 223
Chiron, son to Tamora...... Tit. And. 456
Chorus....
.K. Hen. V. 294
Christopher Sly, a drunken tinker.....
Tam. of Shrew 154
Christopher Urswick, a priest..K. Rich. III. 369
Cicero, a senator.......
Cinna, a poet.....

Jul. Cæs. 506
..Ibid. 506
Cinna, conspirator against Cæsar.. ....Ibid. 506
Clarence's son......
K. Rich. III. 369
Claudio, a young gentleman...Mea. for Mea.
Claudio, a favourite of Don Pedro...

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Curtis, servant to Petruchio.. Tam. of Shrew 154
Cymbeline, king of Britain.......... Cymbeline 626

D

DARDANIUS, servant to Brutus.....Jul. Cæs. 506
Davy, servant to Shallow.....2 K. Hẹn. IV. 274
Daughter of Antiochus......
.Pericles 648

Decius Brutus, conspirator against Cæsar...
Jul. Cæs. 506
Deiphobus, son to Priam...Troil. and Cress. 412
Demetrius, son to Tamora.. Tit. And. 456
Dennis, servant to Oliver....As You Like It 137
Dercetas, friend to Antony... Ant. and Cleo. 604
Desdemona, wife to Othello............ Othello 583
Diana, daughter of an old widow of Florence..
All's W. that Ends W. 170
Diana, goddess...
.Pericles 648
Dick the butcher, a follower of Cade.........
2 K. Hen. VI. 331
Diomedes, attendant on Cleopatra.......
Diomedes, Grecian commander....

Ant, and Cleo. 604

Troil, and Cress. 412
Dion, a Sicilian lord.........
Win. Tale 203
Dionyza, wife to Cleon....
Pericles 648
Dogberry, an officer of the watch.. Much Ado 74
Doctor Butts, physician to King Henry.....
K. Hen. VIII. 392
Doll Tear-sheet, a strumpet...2 K. Hen. IV. 274
Dolabella, friend to Cæsar.... Ant. and Cleo. 604
Domitius Enobarbus, friend to Antony......

Ibid. 604

Donalbain, son to Duncan, king of Scot-
land........
Macbeth 522
Don Armado.......................... Love's Lab. Lost 90
Don John, bastard brother to Don Pedro....

Much Ado 74
.Ibid.

46

Don Pedro, prince of Arragon......
Dr Caius, a French physician...
Mer. W. of Wind. 29
Dromio of Ephesus,twin brothers.
Dromio of Syracuse,

74

Com. of Err. 63

Much Ado 74
..Jul. Cæs. 506
Hamlet 537
.... Win. Tale 203
Pericles 648

Claudius, servant to Brutus..
Claudius, king of Denmark.
Clecmenes, a Sicilian lord..
Cleon, governor of Tharsus...
Cleopatra, queen of Egypt.... Ant. and Cleo. 604
Clitus, servant to Brutus.............Jul. Cæs. 506
Cloten, step-son to Cymbeline..... Cymbeline 626
Clown, servant to Mrs Overdone...

Mea. for Mea. 46
Clown, reputed brother to Perdita...
Win. Tale 203
Clown. ............... All's W. that Ends W. 170
Clown, servant to Lady Olivia.... Twelfth N. 188
Cobweb, a fairy..
Mid. N. Dream 107
.Coriol. 433

Cominius, a Roman general..
Conrade, follower of Don John...Much Ado 74
Constable of France....
.K. Hen. V. 294
Constance, mother to Prince Arthur.....

Cordelia, daughter to Lear..
Corin, a shepherd......
Cornelius, a physician.
Costard, a clown....
Countess of Auvergne..
Court, a soldier...

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K. Lear 561

Duke of Buckingham..........K. Hen. VIII. 392
Duke of Burgundy.
Duke of Burgundy.
Duke of Burgundy..

K. Hen. V. 294
.....1 K. Hen. VI. 314

K. John 223
K. Lear 561
As You Like It 137
.Cymbeline 626
...Love's Lab. Lost 90 Duke of Clarence's daughter.. K. Rich. III. 369
...1 K. Hen. VI. 314 | Duke of Cornwall.....
.K. Lear 561
.K. Hen. V. 294 Duke of Exeter, uncle to King Henry V....
Cranmer, archbishop of Canterbury..
K. Hen. V. 294
K. Hen. VIII. 392 Duke of Exeter, of the Lancaster party..
3 K. Hen. VI. 351
Troil, and Cress. 412 Duke of Florence.... All's W. that Ends W. 170
Duke of Gloster, brother to K. Henry V.....
K. Hen. V. 294
Duke of Gloster, uncle to K. Henry VI.....
1 K. Hen. VI. 314
.As You Like It 137

Cressida, daughter to Calchas..
Cromwell, servant to Wolsey...
K. Hen. VIII. 392
Curan, a courtier....
K. Lear 531
Curio, attendant on Duke Orsino...
Twelfth N. 188 Duke, living in exile.....

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