[204]. Gifford, p. 7, note.

[205]. Rowe’s “Life of Shakspeare,” p. xxxiii.

[206]. Gifford, p. 2.

[207]. Pope’s “Essay on Shakespere,” prefixed to the Oxford edition, p. xix., 1745.

[208]. Introduction to Massinger’s Works, p. xxxiv.

[209]. Page xxxvi.

[210]. Gifford, p. 23. See note by Mr. Dyce, p. 23.

[211]. Introduction to Massinger, p. xv.

[212]. “Lines on Shakespere,” p. 552; Ben Jonson’s Works.

[213]. In 1615. Shakspeare died in 1616.