point out the different Meanings to which the Words are applied. By the Reverend Samuel Ayscough. 8vo. 1790.

60. Cursory Criticisms on the Edition of Shakspeare published by Edmond Malone. [By Mr. Ritson.] 8vo. 1792.

61. A Letter to the Reverend Richard Farmer, D. D. Master of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, relative to the Edition of Shakspeare published in 1790, and fome late Criticisms on that Work. By Edmond Malone, Esq. 8vo. 1792.

62. Cursory Remarks upon the Arrangement of the Plays of Shakspeare, occafioned by reading Mr. Malone's Effay on the chronological Order of those celebrated Pieces. By the Reverend J. Hurdis, M. A. 8vo. 1792.

63. A Specimen of a Commentary on Shakspeare, containing, I. Notes on As you like it. II. An Attempt to explain and illustrate various Passages, on a new Principle of Criticism, derived from Mr. Locke's Doctrine of the Association of Ideas. By the Reverend Walter Whiter. 8vo. 1794.

64. The Story of the Moor of Venice. Tranflated from the Italian. With Two Essays on Shakspeare, and preliminary Observations. By Wolstenholme Parr, A. M. late Fellow of Corpus Chrifti College, Oxford. 1795.

65. Observations on Hamlet; and on the Motives which most probably induced Shakspeare to fix upon the Story of Amleth, from the Danish Chronicle of Saxo Grammaticus, for the Plot of that

Tragedy: Being an Attempt to prove that he de figned it as an indirect Censure on Mary Queen of Scots. By James Plumptre, M.A. 8vo. 1796.

66. A Letter to George Steevens, Esq. Containing a critical Examination of the Papers of Shakspeare, published by Mr. Samuel Ireland. To which are added, Extracts from Vortigern. By James Boaden, Esq. Author of Fontainville Forest, &c. 8vo. 1796.

67. Shakspeare's Manuscripts, in the Possession of Mr. Ireland, examined respecting the internal and external Evidences of their Authenticity. By Philalethes. [Mr. Webb.] 8vo. 1796.

68. Free Reflections on Mifcellaneous Papers and Instruments, under the Hand and Seal of Shakspeare, in the Poffeffion of Samuel Ireland, of Norfolk Street. To which are added, Extracts from an unpublished Play, called the Virgin Queen. Written by, or in Imitation of, Shakspeare. By Francis Godolphin Waldron. London. 8vo. 1796.

69. A Comparative Review of the Opinions of Mr. James Boaden, [Editor of the Oracle] in February, March, and April, 1795, and of James Boaden, Esq. [Author of Fontainville Forest, and of a Letter to George Steevens, Esq.] in February 1796, relative to the Shakspeare MSS. By a Friend to Confiftency. 8vo. 1796.

70. Vortigern under Confideration, with General Remarks on Mr. James Boaden's Letter to George Steevens, Esq. relative to the Manuscripts, Drawings, Seals, &c. ascribed to Shakspeare, and in the Poffeffion of Samuel Ireland, Esq. 8vo. 1796.

71. An Inquiry into the Authenticity of certain Mifcellaneous Papers and Legal Instruments, published Dec. 24, 1795, and attributed to Shakspeare, Queen Elizabeth, and Henry, Earl of Southampton: Illustrated by Fac-fimiles of the genuine Handwriting of Shakspeare, never before exhibited; and other Authentick Documents: In a Letter addreffed to the Right Hon. James, Earl of Charlemont. By Edmond Malone, Esq. 8vo. 1796.

72. An Authentic Account of the Shaksperian Manufcripts, &c. By W. H. Ireland. 8vo. 1796.

73. Mr. Ireland's Vindication of his Conduct respecting the Publication of the supposed Shakspeare MSS. Being a Preface or Introduction to a Reply to the Critical Labors of Mr. Malone, in his "Enquiry into the Authenticity of Certain Papers, &c. &c." 8vo. 1796.

74. An Apology for the Believers in the Shakspeare-Papers, which were exhibited in Norfolk Street. By George Chalmers, Esq. F.R.S. S.A. 8νο. 1797.

75. An Investigation of Mr. Malone's Claim to the Character of a Scholar, or Critic. Being an Examination of his Inquiry into the Authenticity of the Shakspeare Manuscripts, &c. By Samuel Ireland. 8vo. 1797,

76. Remarks on Shakspeare's Tempeft; containing an Investigation of Mr. Malone's Attempt to ascertain the Date of that Play, and various Notes and Illustrations of abftruse Readings and Passages. By Charles Dirrill, Esq. [i. e. Richard Sill.] 8vo. 1797.

77. An Appendix to Observations on Hamlet; being an Attempt to prove that Shakspeare defigned that Tragedy as an indirect Censure on Mary Queen of Scots. Containing, I. Some Observations on Dramas which profeffedly allude to the Occurrences and Characters of the Times in which they were written, and an Answer to the Objections brought against the Hypothefis. II. Some farther Arguments in Support of it. And, III. An Answer to the Objections brought against Dr. Warburton's Hypothefis refpecting an Allufion to Mary Queen of Scots in the celebrated Paffage in the Midsummer Night's Dream. By James Plumptre, Μ.Α. 8vo. 1797.

78. Comments on the Plays of Beaumont and Fletcher, with an Appendix, containing some further Observations on Shakspeare, extended to the late Editions of Malone and Steevens. By the Right Honourable J. Monck Mason. 8vo. 1798.

79. A Supplemental Apology for the Believers in the Shakspeare-Papers: being a Reply to Mr. Malone's Answer, which was early announced, but never published; with a Dedication to George Steevens, F. R.S. S. A. And a Postscript to T. J. Mathias, F. R. S. S. A. the Author of the Pursuits of Literature. By George Chalmers, F. R. S. S. A. 8vo. 1799.

80. Another Essence of MALONE, or the Beauties of Shakspeare's Editor. Two Parts. 8vo. 1801.

81. The Shaksperian Mifcellany. By F. G. Waldron. 4to. 1802.

ANCIENT AND MODERN

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On WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE, who died in April, 1616.2

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ENOWNED Spenser, lie a thought * more nigh To learned Chaucer; and rare Beaumont lie A little nearer Spenser, to make room For Shakspeare, in your three-fold, four-fold tomb.

just published; (and with his accustomed Felicity) entitled Some Account of the Life and Writings of John Dryden!!" 8vo. 1800. All the three pieces are faid to be the acknowledged productions of George Hardinge, Esq. REED.

2 In a collection of manufcript poems which was in the poffeffion of the late Gustavus Brander, Esq. these verses are entitled-"BASSE HIS ELEGIE one [on] poett Shakespeare, who died in April 1616." The MS. appears to have been written foon after the year 1621. In the edition of our author's poems in 1640, they are subscribed with the initials W. B. only. They were erroneoufly attributed to Dr. Donne, in a quarto edition of his poems printed in 1633; but his fon Dr. John Donne, a Civilian, published a more correct edition of his father's poems in 1635, and rejected the verses on Shakspeare, knowing, without doubt, that they were written by another.

William Baffe, according to Wood, [Athen. Oxon Vol. II. p. 812,] "was of Moreton, near Thame in Oxfordshire, and

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- a thought-] i. e. a little, a small space; the phraseology of the time. See note on Much Ado about Nothing, Act III. fc. iv. Vol. VI. p. 106. REED.