Of wrath her right arm whirl'd, But one poor poet's scroll, and with his word She shook the world." -Tennyson. CONTENTS. PAGE II 37 Our Soldiers.-Florence Nightingale's Testimony.-- Shakspeare's Abstainers.-King Lear. -Mac- Two Gentlemen of Verona.-Whitsun Ales.-Love's Labour's Lost.-The "Health" Argument.— Comedy of Errors.-Taming of the Shrew.-The Bride-cup. A Midsummer Night's Dream. King John.-St. George and the Dragon.-King Richard II.-First Part of King Henry IV.- "What needs my Shakspeare, for his honour'd bones, The labour of an age in pilèd stones? Or that his hallow'd relics should be hid Dear son of Memory, great heir of Fame, What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name? Thou, in our wonder and astonishment, Hast built thyself a live-long monument. For whilst, to th' shame of slow-endeavouring Art, Dost make us marble, with too much conceiving; -Milton. |