...hawthorn in the dale." In 1623, when Milton was a boy of fifteen, John Heminge and Henry Condell, " only to keep the memory of so worthy a friend and fellow alive as was our Shakespeare," had given to the world the folio edition of Shakespeare's works, very anxious that the said folio might...

...hawthorn in the dale." In 1623, when Milton was a boy of fifteen, John Heminge and Henry Condell, " only to keep the memory of so worthy a friend and fellow alive as was our Shakespeare," had given to the world the folio edition of Shakespeare's works, very anxious that the said folio might...

...hawthorn in the dale." In 1623, when Milton was a boy of fifteen, John Heminge and Henry Condell, " only to keep the memory of so worthy a friend and fellow alive as was our Shakespeare," had given to the world the folio edition of Shakespeare's dramas, very anxious that the said folio...

...Heminge and Condell collected and published the plays " without ambition either of self-profit or fame ; only to keep the memory of so worthy a Friend and Fellow alive, as was our Shakespeare :" and my quarrel with them is but small, that it did not occur to them as essential to their purpose...

...office to the dead, to procure his orphans guardians ; without ambition either of self-profit or fame ; only to keep the memory of so worthy a friend and fellow alive, as was our SHAKSPEARE, by humble offer of his plays to your most noble patronage. Wherein, as we have justly observed,...

...himself open to the epigrammatists. At length, in 1623, two of Shakespeare's fellow-comedians, Ileminges and Condell, published the first folio edition of...utter negligence shown in " their fellow's " volume if- nc evidence of their pious friendship, nor perhaps of their care or their intelligence. The publication...

...respecting their dead friend and fellow-actor: "We have collected them, and have done an office for the dead, only to keep the memory of so worthy a friend and fellow alive, as was our Shakespeare, by humble offer of his plays to your most noble patronage." And in their address to readers they say...

...they profess to have collected and published the plays, "without ambition of self-profit or fame ; only to keep the memory of so worthy a friend and fellow alive, as was our Shakespeare." A few particulars respecting the Poet's family will bring us to the closing passage of his life. We...

...they profess to have collected and published the plays, " without ambition of selfprofit or fame ; only to keep the memory of so worthy a friend and fellow alive, as was our Shakespeare." Thus much, or rather thus little, is about all that we are permitted to know touching the personal...

...Point, New York : Lovell Printing, etc., Company, 1875, p. 9. 2 Ibid., p. 10. Heminges and Condell " profess that ' they have done this office to the dead...intelligence. The publication was not, I fear, so much an noble and generous patron ? Could he be guilty of a lie?"1 And so on. To much the same effect (the...