The Authorship of Shakespeare; With an Appendix of Additional Matters, Including a Notice of the Recently Discovered Northumberland Mss., a Supplement (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1887 edition. Excerpt: ... Liver of blaspheming Jew; Gall of goat, and slips of yew Sliver'd in the moon's eclipse: Nose of Turk, and Tartar's lips; Finger of birth-strangled babe Ditch-deliver'd by a drab, Make the gruel thick and slab: Add thereto a tiger's chaudron, For the ingredients of our cauldron. AIL Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble." "The heart of an ape is said to make dreams also. . . . The skin of sheep devoured by a wolf moveth itching; ... by working upon the spirit tf some that cometh to the witch " -- "2 W. Cool it with a baboon's blood, Then the charm is firm and good. 2 W. By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes: -- Open locks, whoever knocks. Enter Macbeth." So, in the "As You Like It," we have these lines: -- "Sweet are the uses of adversity; Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head." -- Act II. Sc. 1. And certainly, it is not possible to doubt that this charm was compounded, concocted, and constructed out of this same quarry of materials; nor is it at all probable, if not quite impossible, that William Shakespeare could ever have had access to it. 6. PARALLELISMS. These parallelisms in topics and whole passages, in subject, idea, and language, may furnish the most effective and satisfactory kind of proof; for it is evidence that appeals to the most common standard of judgment Higher and more general grounds of argument may be still more conclusive to minds that are able to appreciate them. To all such any further exhibition of this kind of evidence might seem to be superfluous; but the demonstration must be made as near, perfect, and complete as possible, that every one may be satisfied. That this argument may have full force, all...