point out the different Meanings to which the Words are applied. By the Reverend Samuel Ayscough. 8vo. 1790. 60. Curfory Criticisms on the Edition of Shakfpeare published by Edmond Malone. [By Mr. Ritfon.] 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, Efq. 8vo. 1792. 62. Curfory 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 illuftrate various Paffages, on a new Principle of Criticism, derived from Mr. Locke's Doctrine of the Affociation of Ideas. By the Reverend Walter Whiter. 8vo. 1794. 64. The Story of the Moor of Venice. Tranf lated from the Italian. With Two Effays on Shakfpeare, and preliminary Obfervations. By Wolftenholme Parr, A. M. late Fellow of Corpus Chrifti College, Oxford. 1795. 65. Obfervations 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 defigned it as an indirect Cenfure on Mary Queen of Scots. By James Plumptre, M. A. 8vo. 1796. 66. A Letter to George Steevens, Efq. Containing a critical Examination of the Papers of Shakspeare, publifhed by Mr. Samuel Ireland. To which are added, Extracts from Vortigern. By James Boaden, Efq. Author of Fontainville Foreft, &c. 8vo. 1796. 67. Shakspeare's Manufcripts, in the Poffeffion of Mr. Ireland, examined refpecting the internal and external Evidences of their Authenticity. By Philalethes. [Mr. Webb.] 8vo. 1796. 68. Free Reflections on Mifcellaneous Papers and Inftruments, under the Hand and Seal of Shakfpeare, 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 To which are added, Extracts from an unpublished Play, called the Virgin Queen.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, Efq. [Author of Fontainville Foreft, and of a Letter to George Steevens, Efq.] in February 1796, relative to the Shakspeare MSS. By a Friend to Confiflency. 8vo. 1796. 70. Vortigern under Confideration, with General Remarks on Mr. James Boaden's Letter to George Steevens, Efq. relative to the Manufcripts, Drawings, Seals, &c. afcribed to Shakspeare, and in the Poffeffion of Samuel Ireland, Efq. 8vo. 1796. 71. An Inquiry into the Authenticity of certain Miscellaneous Papers and Legal Inftruments, published Dec. 24, 1795, and attributed to Shakspeare, Queen Elizabeth, and Henry, Earl of Southampton: Illuftrated 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, Efq. 8vo. 1796. 72. An Authentic Account of the Shakfperian Manuscripts, &c. By W. H. Ireland. 8vo. 1796. 73. Mr. Ireland's Vindication of his Conduct refpecting the Publication of the fuppofed 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 Shakfpeare-Papers, which were exhibited in Norfolk Street. By George Chalmers, Efq. F.R.S. S.A. 8vo. 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 Manufcripts, &c. By Samuel Ireland. 8vo. 1797; 76. Remarks on Shakspeare's Tempest; containing an Investigation of Mr. Malone's Attempt to afcertain the Date of that Play, and various Notes and Illuftrations of abftrute Readings and Paffages. By Charles Dirrill, Efq. [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 Cenfure on Mary Queen of Scots. Containing, I. Some Obfervations 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 againft Dr. Warburton's Hypothefis refpecting an Allufion to Mary Queen. of Scots in the celebrated Paffage in the Midfummer Night's Dream. By James Plumptre, M.A. 8vo. 1797. 78. Comments on the Plays of Beaumont and Fletcher, with an Appendix, containing fome further Obfervations on Shakspeare, extended to the late Editions of Malone and Steevens. By the Right Honourable J. Monck Mafon. 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 Effence of MALONE, or the Beauties of Shakspeare's Editor. Two Parts. 8vo. 1801.' 81. The Shakfperian Miscellany. By F. G. Waldron. 4to. 1802. These illiberal and fplenetick effufions were preceded by one of the fame caft and complexion, entitled, 66 The Effence of MALONE, or the Beauties of that fascinating Writer; extracted from his immortal Work in Five Hundred and Sixty-nine Pages, ANCIENT AND MODERN COMMENDATORY VERSES ON SHAKSPEARE. 181 On WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE, who died in April, 1616.2 RENOWNED Spenfer, lie a thought* more nigh To learned Chaucer; and rare Beaumont lie A little nearer Spenfer, 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, Efq. REED. 2 In a collection of manufcript poems which was in the poffeffion of the late Guftavus Brander, Efq. 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 fubfcribed with the initials W. B. only. They were erroneously 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 * a thought- i. e. a little, a fmall Space; the phraseology of the time. See note on Much Ado about Nothing, A& III. fc. iv. Vol. VI. p. 106. REED. |