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Boston:

PRINTED BY MUNROE & FRANCIS,
1802.

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SOME ACCOUNT

OF

THE LIFE AND WRITINGS

SOF

WILLIAM SHAKSPERE;

WRITTEN BY N. ROWE, ESQ.

IT

T feems to be a kind of respect due to the memory of excellent men, efpecially of those whom their wit and learning have made famous, to deliver fome account of themselves, as well as their works, to posterity. For this reafon, how fond do we fee fome people of discovering any little perfonal ftory of the great men of antiquity! Their families, the common accidents of their lives, and even their shape, make, and features have been the fubject of critical enquiries. How trifling foever this curiofity may feem to be, it is certainly very natural; and we are hardly fatisfied with an account of any remarkable person, till we have heard him defcribed even to the very cloaths he wears. As to what relates to men of letters, the knowledge of an author may fometimes conduce to the better understanding his book: and though the works of Mr. Shakfpere may feem to many not to want a comment, yet I fancy fome little account of the man himself may not be thought improper to go along with them.

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