Epistle dedicatory to the Bishop of Rochester signed, and dated Essex Court in the Temple, Ian. 23, 1767. With List of editions and various readings at the end. The text was begun July 23, 1759 and ended Dec. 18, 1760. After this with separate titlepage 'Hermes, or, A Guide to the Elements; setting forth their just Number, and a Mode of representing with Certainty: For the Benefit of Youth, and of Foreigners. Fronte, exile negotium, Et dignum pueris putes; Aggressis, labor arduus. Ter. Mau. London: Printed for &c.' a treatise on phonetics with a folding leaf of sounds (printed), and a vocabulary to 'Paradise Lost'. Neither of the works in this volume was printed.
["Prolusions, or, select Pieces of ancient Poetry", by E. C. 2. Vols. 4o. small.]
MS. 4.
This entry is in Capell's MS catalogue but the book is not in the collection.
A Collection of Poems, In Two Volumes; Being all the Miscellanies of Mr. William Shakespeare, which were Publish'd by himself in the Year 1609 and now correctly Printed from those Editions. The First Volume contains, I. Venus and Adonis. II. The Rape of Lucrece. III. The Passionate Pilgrim. IV. Some Sonnets set to sundry Notes of Musick. The Second Volume contains One Hundred and Fifty Four Sonnets, all of them in Praise of his Mistress. II. A Lover's Complaint of his Angry Mistress. London: Printed for Bernard Lintott, at the Cross-Keys, between the Two Temple-Gates in Fleet-street.
8o. 2 vols. in one. (65⁄8 × 41⁄4). MS. 5.
The second leaf, signed A 2, contains an 'Advertisement', at the end of which on A 2v is the MS note 'I gave Mr Capell the Information of the opposite Page. R. Farmer'. Then follow two leaves containing a 'Preface' in Capell's handwriting. The next leaf is B 1. The text has been carefully corrected throughout by Capell, who has modernised the spelling. The volume apparently contains Capell's material for an edition of the Poems, which however were not included in his edition of Shakespeare's works. The collection was published in 1709. On the fly-leaf are the lines also in Capell's hand:
Βαια φαγων, και βαια πιων, και πολλα νοσησας,
Οψε μεν, αλλ' εθανον; Ερρετε παντες ομου!
Pain of all sorts to cure, Grief, Labour, Fast,
Death of the latest came, but came at last.