'A book which is to my thinking the most able and important volume ever printed about Shakspeare.'

MR. HALLIWELL PHILLIPPS, to the Author.

Dec. 13, 1864.

I commend my Soul into the hands of God, my Creator; hoping and assuredly believing, through the only merits of Jesus Christ, my Saviour, to be made partaker of life everlasting; and my Body to the earth, whereof that is made.'

SHAKSPEARE'S WILL.*

It has been suggested by. Mr. Furnivall, who has ventured to represent Shakspeare as an unbeliever, that this was merely a form of words usually employed in wills. But Shakspeare was too true a man to have made use of suck expressions unless they had represented his real sentiments.- -See Appendix, p. 399 seq.