...Montgomery, his fellows, Heminge and Condell, profess that their great object in their publication was, " only to keep the memory of so worthy a friend and fellow alive as was our Shakspeare ; " and their Preface to the public appears evidently to have been dictated by their personal...

...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...religious address, it hath been the height of our eare, who are the presenters, to make the present worthy of your Highnesses by the perfection. But,...

...character : they were presenting to the world, in an important volume, scattered performances, in order r, why, give God thanks, and ] go sit here upon the church-bench till two ; and then " and we cannot believe that they w r ould have included any drama to which he had no title. In all...

...free nature ; " and the editors of the folio edition of the plays, say that they have collected them " to keep the memory of so worthy a friend and fellow alive, as was our Shakspere." Whether the poet was beloved by any one of the opposite sex, remains a mystery. From the...

...free nature ; ' and the editors of the folio edition of the plays, say that they have collected them ' to keep the memory of so worthy a friend and fellow alive, as was our Shakspere.' Whether the poet was beloved by any one of the opposite sex, remains a mystery. From the...

...they were presenting to the world, in an important volume, scattered performances, in order to " kcep the memory of so worthy a friend and fellow alive, as was our Shakespeare, " and we cannot believe that they would have included any drama to which he had no title. In all probability...

...dedication to the Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery, they " had but collected them, and done an office to the dead, to procure his orphans guardians, without...of so worthy a friend and fellow alive as was our Shakspeare." Thus, to friendship was owing the preservation of dramas which a R 2 century afterwards...

...before they were published, the volume naked to bo yours. We have but collected them, and dono an office lay Percy, and that damned hniwn shall play dame Mortimer...hast thou been Î Fat. A plague of all cowards, I wo have justly observed, no mnn to come near your Lordships but with a kind of religious address, it...

...Histories, and Tragedies." These player-editors profess that "they have done this office to the dead only to keep the memory of so worthy a friend and fellow alive as was our Shakespeare." Yet their utter negligence shown in " their fellow's" volume is no evidence of their pious friendship,...

...collected them, and done an office to the dead, to procure his orphans guardians ; without ambition cither of self-profit or fame ; only to keep the memory of...and fellow alive as was our Shakespeare, by humble ofier of his plays to your most noble patronage. Wherein, as we have justly observed no man to come...