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Title: The comedies, histories, tragedies, and poems of William Shakspere
Year: 1851 (1850s)
Authors: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 Knight, Charles, 1791-1873
Subjects: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
Publisher: London : Charles Knight
Contributing Library: Brandeis University Libraries
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in goods, which goods were some-times little more than packages of brown paper.The most minute description of these practicesis given in a pamphlet by Nashe, published in1594:—He (a usurer) falls acquainted withgentlemen, frequents ordinaries and dining-houses daily, where, when some of them atplay have lost all their money, he is very dili-gent at hand, on their chains and bracelets, orjewels, to lend them half the value. Now thisis the nature of young gentlemen, that wherethey have broke the ice, and borrowed once,they will come again the second time; andthat these young foxes know as well as the beg-gar knows his dish. But at the second time oftheir coming it is doubtful to say whether theyshall have money or no. The world growshard, and we are all mortal; let him make anyassurance before a judge, and they shall havesome hundred pounds per consequence, in silksand velvets. The third time if they come, theyshall have baser commodities: the fourth time,lute-strings and gray paper.
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INTKODUOTORY REMARKS. We have no edition of the Winters Taleprior to that of the folio of 1623 ; nor was itentered upon the registers of the StationersCompany previous to the entry by the pro-prietors of the folio. The original text,which is divided into acts and scenes, is re-markably correct. The novel of Robert Greene, called Pan-dosto, which Shakspere undoubtedly fol-lowed, with very few important deviations, inthe construction of the plot of his WintersTale, was a work of extraordinary popularity,thei-e being fourteen editions known to exist. In the country of Bohemia, says thenovel, there reigned a king called Pan-dosto. The Leontes of Shakspere is thePandosto of Greene. The Polixenes of theplay is Egistus in the novel:— It so hap-pened that Egistus, King of Sicilia, who inhis youth had been brought up with Pan-dosto, desirous to show that neither tract oftime nor distance of place could diminishtheir former friendship, provided a navy of iships and sailed into Bohemia to visi

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