IN THE SECOND FOLIO, PRINTED IN 1632, THE FOLLOWING WERE ALSO ADDED.

VPON THE EFFIGIES OF MY WORTHY FRIEND, THE

AUTHOR

MASTER WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
AND HIS WORKES.

PECTATOR, this Life's Shaddow is; To see
The truer image and a liuelier he.

Turne, Reader. But obserue his Comicke vaine,
Laugh; and proceed next to a Tragicke straine,
Then weepe: So when thou find'st two contraries,
Two different passions from thy rapt soul rise,
Say, (who alone effect such wonders could)
Rare Shake-speare to the life thou dost behold.

AN EPITAPH

ON THE ADMIRABLE DRAMATICKE POET,

W. SHAKESPEARE.

HAT need my Shakespeare for his honour'd

bones

The labour of an Age, in piled stones
Or that his hallow'd Reliques should be hid
Under a Star-ypointing Pyramid ?

Dear Son of Memory, great Heir of Fame,
What need'st thou such dull witnesse of thy Name?
Thou in our wonder and astonishment

Hast built thy self a lasting Monument:

For whil'st to th'shame of slow-endevouring Art
Thy easy numbers flow, and that each heart*,

It is superfluous to say that these lines are Milton's. The folio has part, an evident misprint for hart, the old orthography of heart, which is the reading of the copy in Milton's Minor Poems printed in 1645, where there are other verbal variations.

Hath from the leaves of thy unvalued Book
Those Delphick Lines with deepe Impression took;
Then thou our fancy of her-self bereaving,
Dost make us Marble with too much conceiving,
And so Sepulcher'd in such pomp dost lie
That Kings for such a Tomb would wish to die.

THE WORKES OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Containing all his Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies; Truly set forth according to their first Original.

THE NAMES OF THE PRINCIPALL ACTORS IN ALL THESE PLAYES.

Y friend Mr. Douce, in his Illustrations of Shakspeare, published in 1807, had suggested that the outline of a considerable part of this play was borrowed from the account of Sir George Somers's Voyage and Shipwreck on the Bermudas, in 1609, and had pointed out some passages which seemed to confirm his suggestion. At the same time, it appears, that Mr. Malone was engaged in investigating the relations of this voyage, and he subsequently printed the result in a pamphlet which he distributed among his friends, and which Mr. Boswell reprinted in the 15th volume of his edition of Shakspeare.

At a later period of his life, Mr. Douce met with a print, engraved on wood, inscribed LA MADONNA DI LAMPEDOSA, in which the coast of the Island with its Castle is represented; two vessels are approaching it, above which hover three large birds. The Virgin and child are in the clouds above, to whom an old and a young man, with swords by their sides, are kneeling in the act of adoration. This print was probably given to votaries, who made their offerings at the shrine in the chapel on the Island, by the hermit stationed there to relieve those who might be wrecked, or driven by stress of weather, on the coast. It is known among sailors in the Mediterranean as the Enchanted Island.

The late Mr. Thomas Rodd informed Mr. Hunter that the suggestion, that Lampedosa, from its situation and the traditions respecting it, was most likely to have been the Island intended by Shakspeare as the scene of the Tempest, first occurred to himself, and that he made Mr. Douce acquainted with it. Be this as it may, I know that Mr. Douce certainly entertained the idea upwards of twenty years since, and has thus recorded it. "The Island of Lampedosa is near the coast of Tunis; and from its description, in Dapper, and the real track of the king of Naples's voyage in Shakspeare's Tempest, will turn out to be the veritable Island where he was shipwrecked, and to which Prospero had