farewells, the second being a kind of amplification of the first; both,
however, being in the part which I ascribe to Fletcher. Is it not
probable that these were written at different periods? And supposing
Fletcher to have improved his part, might there not originally have been
a stronger analogy than now appears between this play and the _Two Noble
Kinsmen_?

The more it is tested the brighter shines out the character of
Shakspeare. The flatteries of James and Elizabeth may now go packing
together. The following four lines which I have met with in no other
edition of Shakspeare than Mr. Collier's, are worth any one of his plays
for their personal value; they show how he could evade a compliment with
the enunciation of a general truth that yet could be taken as a
compliment by the person for whom it was intended:

_Shakspeare on the King._

"Crowns have their compass; length of days their date;
Triumphs, their tomb; felicity her fate;
Of nought but earth can earth make us partaker,
But knowledge makes a king most like his Maker."

Samuel Hickson.

August 12. 1850.

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