This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1778 Excerpt: ...too late; for it appears from the Mss. of Mr. Vertue, that the Tempest was acted by John Heminge and the rest of the King's Company, before prince Charles, the lady Elizabeth, and the prince Palatine elector, in the beginning of the year 1613. The names of Trintuh and Antonio, two of the characters in this comedy, are likewise found in that of Albiwiazar; which was first printed in 1614, but is supposed by Dryden to have appeared some years before. 43. Twelfth Night, 1614. It has been generally believed, that Shakspeare retired from the theatre, and ceased to write, about three years NOTES. "These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits, and Are melted into air, into thin air; And, like the baseless fabrick of this vision, The chud-capt tow'rs, the gorgeous palaces The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Vca, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And like this unsubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind." Tempest, Act IV. Sc. i. Whether we suppose Shakspeare to have imitated lord Sterline, or lord Sterline to have borrowed from him, the fourth line above quoted from the tragedy of Darius, renders it highly probable that Shakspeare wrote, (as Sir Thomas Hantner conjectured,) '4 Leave not a track behind." 1 See a note on Julius C.rstir, Act I. Sc. i. 1 Observations on the Tempest, p. 67. Mr. Holt imagined, that lord Essex was united to lady Frances Howard in 1610; but he was mistaken: their union did not take place till the next year. Jan. 5, 1606--7. The earl continued abroad four years from that time; so that he did not cohabit with his wite till 1611. Y4 bebefore he died. The latter supposition must now be considered as extremely doubtful; for Mr. Tyrwhitt, with great probability, conjectures, that Twelfth Night was writ...