A Letter on Shakspere's Authorship of The Two Noble Kinsmen / and on the characteristics of Shakspere's style and the secret of his supremacy

by William Spalding

[45:3] 2 N. K., Act V. sc. i, ii, iii. Weber, are V. i. Littledale.

[46:1] This beautiful address has been spoken of already.

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[47:1] page 49

[48:1] page 50

[49:1] Romeo and Juliet:—Midsummer Night's Dream:—also in Don Quixote, Parte II. capit. xi.: "Los ojos de Dulcinea deben ser de verdes esmeraldas."

[49:2] This is the character of Emilia, by Chaucer and Shakspere, but not by Fletcher of IV. ii., and the author of V. v. (or iii. Littledale)—if he is not Fletcher—with their inconsistencies of Emilia's weak balancing of Palamon against Arcite, now liking one best, then the other, and being afraid that Palamon may get his figure spoilt! F. J. F.

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[50:1] page 52

[50:2] The thought here is frequent in Shakspeare's dramas: and the expression of it closely resembles some stanzas in the Lucrece, especially those beginning, "Oh, comfort-killing night!"