THE

TEMPLE SHAKESPEARE

By the kind permission of Messrs Macmillan & Co.
and W. Aldis Wright, Esq., the text here
used is that of the "Cambridge" Edition.

First Edition of this issue of "As You Like It" printed September 1894.

Second Edition, April 1895.

Third Edition, April 1896.
Fourth Edition, March 1897.

EACH change of many-coloured life he drew;
Exhausted worlds, and then imagin'd new;
Existence saw him spurn her bounded reign,
And panting time toil'd after him in vain.
His powerful strokes presiding truth impress'd,
And unresisted passion storm'd the breast.

SAMUEL JOHNSON: (Prologue
at the opening of Drury Lane
Theatre, 1747).