[278a] ‘Timber,’ in Works, 1641.
[278b] John Webster, the dramatist, made vague reference in the address before his ‘White Divel’ in 1612 to ‘the right happy and copious industry of M. Shakespeare, M. Decker, and M. Heywood.’
[280] The words run: ‘Heere lyeth interred the bodye of Anne, wife of Mr. William Shakespeare, who depted. this life the 6th day of August, 1623, being of the age of 67 yeares.
‘Vbera, tu, mater, tu lac vitamq. dedisti,
Vae mihi; pro tanto munere saxa dabo!
Quam mallem, amoueat lapidem bonus Angel[us] ore,
Exeat ut Christi Corpus, imago tua.
Sed nil vota valent; venias cito, Christe; resurget,
Clausa licet tumulo, mater, et astra petet.’
[281] Cf. Hall, Select Observations, ed. Cooke, 1657.
[282] Baker, Northamptonshire, i. 10; New Shaksp. Soc. Trans. 1880-5, pt. ii. pp. 13†—15†.
[283] Halliwell-Phillipps, Hist. of New Place, 1864, fol.
[284] Wise, Autograph of William Shakespeare . . . together with 4,000 ways of spelling the name, Philadelphia, 1869.
[285] See the article on John Florio in the Dictionary of National Biography, and Sir Frederick Madden’s Observations on an Autograph of Shakspere, 1838.
[286] Cf. Halliwell-Phillipps, New Lamps or Old, 1880; Malone, Inquiry, 1796.