, ~-^^C-n-^^^XL^.^,.-^^- REESE LIBRARY UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA 189315WAR ,8 . ,Deceived g Tributes to SHAKESPEARE COLLECTED AND ARRANGED BY MARY R. SILSBY NEW YORK HARPER & BROTHERS MDCCCXCIIPRINTERS 6- PUBLISHERS Copyright, 1892, HARPER &by BROTHERS. All rights reserved. S3 TO WILLIAM LiTT.D.ROLFE,J. IN RECOGNITION OF HIS SERVICES TO STUDENTS OF SHAKESPEARE THIS VOLUME IS Gratefully It is curious . . . that almost all thereally poets who have touched seem to become in-Shakespeare above themselves. The that Benspired poem Jonson wrote in his has a of movement aboutmemory splendor it that is uncommon with a sort of andhim, rapture ; finer than what hewrote wrote of theDryden nothing RUSSELLof LOWELLgreatest poets. JAMES Richard the(Shakespeare's Third). PREFACE. FOR several while in the years, engaged of in connection with aShakespearestudy editorthe inShakespeare Society, preserved her note-books addressed to theevery poem or his ordramatist, inspired by genius per- which fell under her notice. These sonality, in date from to and filledranged 1595 1891, aIt was labor of love,many pages. merely an inwith interest the ofobserving variety in which the theme wasgreat treated,styles she entertained no idea of everand making further use of the material thusany gath- ered. But the was madesuggestion by friends that if these were issued in apoems volume it would form an collec-interesting Vlll PREFACE. trusts itand such she will to thetion, prove lovers of Shakespeare.
, ~-^^C-n-^^^XL^.^,.-^^- REESE LIBRARY UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA 189315WAR ,8 . ,Deceived gTributes to SHAKESPEARE COLLECTED AND ARRANGED BY MARY R. SILSBY NEW YORK HARPER & BROTHERS MDCCCXCIIPRINTERS 6- PUBLISHERSCopyright, 1892, HARPER &by BROTHERS. All rights reserved.S3 TO WILLIAM LiTT.D.ROLFE,J. IN RECOGNITION OF HIS SERVICES TO STUDENTS OF SHAKESPEARE THIS VOLUME IS Gratefully