SHAK SPEARE

AND

HIS FRIENDS;

OR,

% THE GOLDEN AGE" OF MERRY ENGLAND.

His life was gentlo, and the elements
So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up,
And say to all the world-This was a man !

JULIUS CÆSAR.
He was not of an age, but for all time.

BEN JONSON.

PARIS, PUBLISHED BY A. AND W. GALIGNANI AND Co.,

(N° 18, RUE VIVIENNE.

1838.

TO

THE ADMIRERS

OF

“Honie-Tong'd Shakspeare,”

AND OF THE OTHER ILLUSTRIOUS SPIRITS OF

THE GOLDEN AGE OF ENGLAND,

THESE VOLUMES,

WITH TRUE HUMBLENESS,

AND ENTIRE DEVOTEDNESS TO THE SUBJECT,

ARE RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED,

BY

THEIR FELLOW.WORSHIPPER,

AND VERY OBEDIENT SERVANT,

THE AUTHOR.