for, or address them to, the young Prince Henry of England, who died, at the age of nineteen, in 1612? Did he, when he became Lord Keeper or Lord Chancellor, say to his friend Ben Jonson, what King Lear says to the Earl of Glos-“What, art_mad? A man may see how this world goes, with no eyes. Look with thine ears; see how yond' Justice rails upon yond' simple thief. Hark in thine ear: change places; and handy-dandy, which is the Justice, which is the thief?"

ter:

"Plate sin with gold

And the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks;
Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw doth pierce it."

King Lear Act VI. 5

AMBITIOUS. Wolsey charges Cromwell to fling away ambition for "by that sin fell the angels;

"How can man, then

The image of his Maker hope to win by't?

Love thyself last; cherish those hearts that hate thee;

Corruption wins not more than honesty."

Henry VIII. Act IV. 1

COVETOUSNESS, "which is idolatry,' properly signifies an intemperate ungoverned love of riches, is a word Shakspere has not a fondness for: he only uses it upon four occasions, and then does not use it seriously, or for any practical or moral end, save in this instance.

"When workmen strive to do better than well They do compound their skill in covetousness; And often times, excusing of a fault

Doth make the fault the worst by the excuse."

King John Act IV. 2

This dialogue, from a scene (enter three fishermen), in Pericles Prince of Tyre, well illustrates the subject :

"Master, I wonder how the fishes live in the sea.

Fisherman. Why as men do on land; the great ones eat up the little ones. I compare our rich misers to nothing so fitly as a whale; a plays and tumbles, diving the poor fry before him, and at last devours them all at a mouthful. Such whales have I heard on a' the land, who never leave gaping, till they have swallow'd the whole parish, church, steeple, bells and all.”

Many a duteous and knee-crooking knave,
That, doting on his obsequious bondage,

Wears out his time, much like his master's ass,
For nought but provender, and, when he's old,
Whip me such honest knaves."

[cashier'd;

Othello Act I. I

"The time of life is short;

To spend that shortness basely, were too long,

If life did ride on a dial's point,

Still ending at the arrival of an hour."

SELFISH. Shakspere has not the word: it was no part of his nature. Again, is it not common to the literature of the period. Milton does not use it. Nevertheless our great poet, while poor old King Lear preaches to the raging elements, makes them preach to the selfish. What a memento of duty are these words of the storm-beaten King:

"Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are,
That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm,
How shall your houseless head and unfed sides,
Your loop'd and window'd raggedness, defend you
From seasons such as these? O, I have ta’en
Too little care of this! Take physic, Pomp,
Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel;
That thou mayst shake the superflux to them,
And show the Heavens more just!"

King Lear Act III. 4

and lastly, UNSCRUPULOUS, a word neither in Shakspere nor Milton, in Paradise Lost, but if we take it in this sense, unprincipled, devoid of conscience, those who have sorrow of mind and a trembling heart, and the wicked who are like the troubled sea when it cannot rest, and whose waters cast up dirt; then Shakspere speaks out boldly about the wretchedness of a bad conscience.

Better be with the dead,

Than on the torture of the mind to lie
In restless ecstasy.

Macbeth Act III. 2.

Leave her to Heaven,

And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge,

To prick and sting her.

Hamlet Act I. 5.

To my sick soul, as Sin's true nature is,

Each toy seems prologue to some great amiss ;

So full of artless jealously is Guilt

It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.

Hamlet Act IV. 5.

Conscience is a thousand swords.

Richard III. Act V. 2.

Oh, it is monstrous ! monstrous.

Methought the billows spoke, and told me of it;
The winds did sing it to me ; and the thunder,
That deep and dreadful organ pipe, pronounc'd
The name of Prosper; it did bass

*

my trespass.

Tempest Act III. 3

These selections have not been made idly, nor without purpose. Let those who feel interested in the debated case-BACON versus SHAKSPERE, try to find parallels in thought and diction to them in Bacon's writings.

Nathaniel Holmes lays too much stress upon these parallelisms between Bacon and Shakspere, and argues that because the works of Bacon were not printed and published until after the plays in question had appeared, Shakspere could not have borrowed from Bacon, and it is too ridiculous to suppose Bacon could have borrowed from such a man as Shakspere -ergo, Bacon was himself the author of both the poetry and the prose. When Nathaniel Holmes and his brother "Theorists" give to the world any absolutely known specimens of

* Outsound, or spoke louder than.