“THERE is more weighty bullion sense in this book, than I ever found in the same number of pages of any uninspired writer."

COLERIDGE.

ADVERTISEMENT.

HE flattering reception and rapid sale of the former edition of this little book

given by the late Mr. Pickering in 1847, has encouraged the present publisher to solicit me to superintend this re-impression; and I have spared no pains to make it at least equally worthy of public favour. The text has been again carefully revised, and the notes, with some augmentation, are now placed beneath it, instead of at the end of the volume. It has been a source of infinite satisfaction to me to be called upon in the evening of life to revise the text of the dramas of our great poet and that of this little golden manual, and to renew my intercourse with the minds of Shakespeare and Selden.

Mickleham,

November 19, 1855.

S. W. S.

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