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 MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS 
 
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 LEGAL INSTRUMENTS, 
 
 Under the Hand and Seal of 
 
 WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE, 
 
 IN THE POSSESSION OF 
 
 SAMUEL IRELAND, 
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 MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS 
 
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 " Within the centre." Hamlet. 
 
 To which are added, 
 EXTRACTS FROM AN UNPUBLISHED MS. PLAY, 
 
 CALLED 
 
 THE VIRGIN QUEEN. 
 
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 JLN " ^ Letter to George Steevens, Efq. by James 
 Boaden, Efq." juft published, is the following 
 acknowledgement; which To exactly defcribes 
 ray own feelings in the fame fituation, that I take 
 the liberty to adopt the very words. 
 
 W When a report firft went abroad, that Mr, 
 Ireland, of Norfolk-flreet, had made a difcovery 
 fo important as the papers of Shakfpeare, the 
 writer of thefe meets went to fee them, and was 
 very politely allowed by their pofleflor to hear 
 him read them at leifure. In fome inftances cre- 
 dulity is no difgrace : ftrong enthufiafm is always 
 eager to believe. I confefs, therefore, that, for 
 fome time after I had feen them, I continued to 
 believe them genuine. They bore the character 
 of the poet's writing the paper appeared of fuf- 
 ficient age the water-marks were earneftly dif- 
 played, and the matter diligently applauded. 
 
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 To a mind filled with the mod ardent love and 
 the mod eager zeal, difarmed of caution by the 
 character too of the gentleman who difplayed 
 them, it will not be a fubjecl: of fevere reproof, 
 that the wilhed impreflion was made. 
 
 I remember that I beheld the papers with the 
 tremor of the pureft delight touched the inva- 
 luable relics with reverential refpect, and deemed 
 even exiftence dearer, as it gave me fo refined a 
 fatisfadlion. He, who has long combatted with 
 the arts of literary impofture, may fmile at the 
 fimplicity of this avowal, although he mould be 
 unable to refufe his praife to the candour by which 
 it has been dictated." 
 
 Such were precifely my feelings when Mr. 
 Ireland did 'me the favour to fhew me the papers, 
 &c. adverted to ; and I (incerely hope, that nothing 
 I may have occasion to fay concerning them, will 
 be conftrued into difrefpeift for him : their authen- 
 ticity is now on trial at the bar of the publick, 
 and every one is free to give evidence ; as mine 
 will be faithfully delivered, 1 truft it will be 
 favourably received. 
 
 Unfkilled as I am, the only doubt that (buck 
 me, on hearing the papers read, was of the word 
 whymfycallc j which, I then obferved, I did not 
 
 remember
 
 MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS. 7 
 
 remember to have met with at fo early a period : 
 this objection was foon overruled by the fuppo- 
 fition that, as the word mud have been produced 
 at fome period, Shakfpeare might then have coined 
 it. I acquiefced, departed highly gratified, and 
 in all other refpects entirely faticfiod % tumislrucd 
 
 In a converfation fome time after, on the fub- 
 ject of thefe papers, with a gentleman'fof the 
 founded judgment, and beft information, I hinted 
 the doubt I had entertained of the word whymfy- 
 calle ; he pronounced it too modern for Shakf- 
 peare : which, recollecting the adage ex pede Her- 
 
 culem, caufed me to look a little farther into the 
 matter. 
 
 Mod of the obfervations I made, many of 
 which, Mr. Boaden having anticipated me in 
 them, are omitted, I am proud to fay, have been 
 approved of by the gentleman alluded to. I fub- 
 mit the following, therefore, with a refpeclful 
 confidence, to the fkilful in Shakfpearean lore; 
 ftimiilated by an irrefiftible impulfe to contribute 
 my faint breath towards the difpelling thefe newly- 
 arifen vapours : which, if fuffered to condenfe, 
 might dim the effulgence of Shakfpeare ! 
 
 / C. /&****, /y. 
 
 In
 
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 In page i, following the preface to, " Mifcel- 
 laneous Papers?* Sec. is faid, " for 7, read Aye : 
 this was the Author's ufual mode of writing*' 
 Mr. Ireland might have added, and of every other 
 Author at that period. 
 
 The fuperfcription of queen Elizabeth's letter 
 to Shakfpeare, written with her own hand, is as 
 carefully worded, as if it were to have been fent 
 by the penny-poft ; had the office fo named been 
 then eftablifhed. So far from directing a letter, 
 Elizabeth wrote not the inward contents ; that 
 haughty perfonage was not in the habit of fuch 
 condefcenfion : her fignature only, or, on rare 
 occafions, an additional line, comprifed nearly 
 the whole of her hand-writing, in any letter from 
 her. In the letter the queen ftyles him " Maf- 
 terre William ;" the orthography of that age was 
 Maijler, from the old French Maijlre, now written 
 Maitre; the French having ejected the s from 
 many words in which we, though they are derived 
 from them, retain it. This Chattertonifm occurs 
 frequently in thefe wonderful, or rather blunder- 
 ful, papers. 
 
 t( 50 Poundes" was a great fum, at that period, 
 to receive for playing " before the Lorde Leycef- 
 terre ;" although the " Expenneces thereuponne" 
 
 amounted
 
 MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS. 9 
 
 amounted to " 19 poundes:" and, per contra, 
 " 2 Jhyllynges moure" to " Mafterre Lowinne ;" 
 whom, in the " Deed of Truft to John Hemynge t % * 
 Shakfpeare terms " oure bejl ARorr\ % * was but a 
 fmall compliment* " forre hys Goode Servyces and 
 welle playinge." Even the fpelling of this cele- 
 brated actor's name is dubious : in the lift of 
 performers affixed to Sejanus, The Foxe, The 
 Alcbetnijl, and Catiline, (Ben Jonfon's Works, 
 folio, 16 16) his name is uniformly fpelt Lowin: 
 and, furely, the perfon who entered into a 
 legal contract with him, as Shakfpeare is, in 
 thefe papers, reprefented to have done, muft 
 have known the cuftomary orthography of his 
 name. 
 
 It may alfo be obferve^ that the well-known 
 urbanity of Shakfpeare's mind, and fuavity of his 
 manners, could not have permitted him to affront 
 the great Burbage, and other full-rate performers, 
 by unneceffarily ftyling Lowin, however excel- 
 lent, in a legal inftrument of public notoriety, 
 " oure bejl Attorr.** 
 
 * I remark here, en pafiant, that compliment^ in Shakfpeare** 
 time, was ufed as a noun only ; in queen Elizabeth's letter to 
 htm it appears as a verb. 
 
 B %l Letter
 
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 " Letter to Anna Hath errew aye" 
 
 This female's names were Anne Hathaway* 
 Anna is a Latin adoption of, comparatively, mo- 
 dern ufe j the orthography of Hatherrewaye is 
 merely Chattertonian. 
 
 In the letter to her, a kingly crown is termed 
 a " gyldedde bawble" Bawble formerly meant 
 the carved truncheon, with a fool's head at the 
 top of it,ufed by court and ftagc buffoons ; there- 
 fore a very unlikely epithet to be applied by 
 Shakfpeare to the fymbol of majefty ; to which he 
 every where pays great refped. 
 
 In the " Letter to the Earl of Southampton" we 
 read " itte is a Budde which Bllojfommes Blloomes" 
 &c. Shakfpeare was too good a naturalift not 
 to know, that a Bud firft Blooms, then Blojfoms. 
 
 " tooe fublyme a feeling," in the fame letter, 
 is a very queftionable expreflion. 
 
 The fcrawl of this fublime and blooming letter 
 is what fchool-boys call pot-hooks and hangers ; 
 and utterly unlike the hand-writing of that or any 
 other age : aftd, if the fignature be the autograph 
 of any earl of Southampton, it is, lam informed, 
 not that of Shakfpeare's benefactor. 
 
 in
 
 MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS. II 
 
 In the " Profefton of Faith;* " acceeded toe" 
 is a phrafe an hundred years too modern for Shak- 
 fpeare. 
 
 Towards the conclufion of the " ProfeJJion" &c. 
 Chickenne is ufed for the Hen, who receives her 
 brood under her wings ; on the propriety of which 
 confult the holy fcriptures. Chickenne is alfo ob- 
 jectionable in this place as ungrammatical, it being 
 ufed in the fmgular number ; whereas, the old 
 fingular was Chick, and Chicken the plural. So 
 Ox, and Oxen ; Cow, and Cowen ; contracted into. 
 Kine* 
 
 In the ' Letter to Richard Cowley*' we read, 
 u a whymfycalle conceyt ;*' the word whymfycalle, 
 or whimjical, as I have already faid, does not, I 
 am allured, occur in or near that period. I have 
 a little book, printed in 1631, entituled M IVhim- 
 xies : or a New Call of Characters;"* which, 
 
 though 
 
 The following extract from the character of " A Ruffian^ 
 in this fcarce book, as it relates to our ancient theatres, may 
 not be unpleafing. 
 
 " To a play they wil hazard to go, though with never a 
 rag of money : where after the fecond A3, when the Doore is 
 weakly guarded, they will make forcible entrie ; a knock with 
 a Cudgell is the worft ; whereat though they grumble, they 
 reft pacified upon their admittance* Forthwith, by violent 
 B 2 affault
 
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 though Whim mud apparently have preceded, is 
 the earlieft inftance 1 can recoiled of any word 
 like whymfycalle. 
 
 One might imagine, from the careful fuper- 
 fcription of the letter to Cowley, that queen Eli- 
 zabeth had condefcended to direct that too. 
 
 The figure " evidently meant for Sbylock" is 
 reprefented with a blue cap on. Jews in Venice 
 are obliged to wear a red cap or hat, as a badge 
 of their perfuafion. Shakfpeare, however, or the 
 painter of this grotefque figure, might not be 
 acquainted with the coftume of that place and 
 people. 
 
 In the " Deed of Gift to Ireland," after the 
 word " follozvitke" are three conjunctive notes of 
 admiration ! ! ! I believe two notes of admiration 
 in conjunction have not been ufed till very lately. 
 When the plays of " Kyng henrye thyrde of Eng- 
 lande" " Kynge Hj vii," &c. come to light, we 
 
 mud 
 
 aflault and affent, they afpire to the two-pennie roome ; where 
 being furnifhed with Tinder, Match, and a portion of decayed 
 BarmoodaS) they fmoake it molt terribly, applaud a prophane 
 jeaft unmeafurably, and in the end grow diitaflefully rude to 
 all the Companie. At the Conclufion of all, they fingle out 
 their dainty DoxeS) to cloze up a fruitlefle clay with a finj^ful 
 evening."
 
 MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS. 13 
 
 muft not be furprifed at finding in them the wordi 
 fwindler, Jloawl, and Otaheite ; or the * * * of 
 Tr'ijlram Shandy. 
 
 As Shakfpeare's Tempejl and Macbeth, which 
 were given to Cowley, were never printed till the 
 folio, 1623, was put forth by Heminge and 
 Condell ; how chanced it that Heminge did not, 
 having pofTeflion of the u Oakenn Chejle," with all 
 the Plays therein, and being, we may imagine, on 
 good terms with the party, prevail on " Mafterr 
 Burbage," as he had done with Cowley, to per- 
 mat him to publifh " y e Virginn >uene" in faid 
 folio ? 
 
 For what reafon did Heminge exclude from 
 the folio Shakfpeare's " newe Playe neverr yette 
 imprynted catted Kynge Hy VII" which was " toe 
 bee wholly <e for f d J. Hemynge ?" And why did 
 not Heminge publifh in that folio the "Playe 
 called Kynge Vorrtygerne," and appropriate what 
 the copy-right of it might then be deemed worth, 
 to the ufe and advantage of " thatt Chyide" to 
 whom it was amgned ? 
 
 The play of " Kynge henry e thyrde of Englande" 
 having, with " Henry fowr the /' Henry ejyf the," 
 " Kyng John," and " Kyng Leare" been given 
 by Shakfpeare to " Majlerre William Henrye Ire-, 
 
 landc ;
 
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 Unde ; we may hope that Mafterre Samuel Ireland, 
 or Mafterre Samuel-William-Henry Ireland, to 
 whom we are obliged for the immaculate " Kynge 
 Leare," will fpeedily favour the publick with it : 
 a play which Shakfpeare's " good and Worthy e 
 Freynd John Hemynge," to whofe " honorr" 
 he trufted, withheld, not only from a poor child, 
 but from even himfelf, being already produced ; 
 the other hitherto - unheard - of play, coming 
 within the family-corn pact, " fame name and arms," 
 &c. is furely a lei's difficult attainment : and I con- 
 clude that the " more intending hijiorical Play," 
 announced in Mr. Ireland's preface, is the play of 
 " Kyng benrye thyrde of Englande" 
 
 Should any fortunate circumftance reftore to us 
 " Kynge Hy vii," and who knows what induftry 
 and ingenuity may effect ? we (hall probably pof- 
 fefs all the Dramas of Shakfpeare, hitheito men- 
 tioned ; as the writer of thefe Reflections, or what- 
 ever they may be termed, is particularly acquainted 
 with, and has great influence over, a now-living 
 f Majlerr Burbage" lineally defcended, we muft 
 fuppofe, from Shakfpeare's Burbage; through 
 whofe, or fome other means, he doubts not he 
 fhall be enabled to recover an entire copy of 
 u \y Virg'mn uene :" from which he has already 
 obtained a few extracts, fubjoined to thefe 
 remarks. 
 
 They
 
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 They are, for the reader's eafe, though not 
 perhaps the antiquary's gratification, diverted of 
 the ruft of age ; the redundant fpelling : but, let 
 not a feeming lack of years be any impediment to 
 a reverend eftimation. 
 
 The " Tragedy e of Kynge Leare" our Pfeudo- 
 Shakfpeare fays, " Jfse. fromme Maflerre. HoU 
 linnejhedde" 
 
 I have not a volume of that hiftorian at prefent 
 in my pofleflion j but, to the bed of my recollec- 
 tion, the orthography of his name in the title- 
 page to his works is much more fimple.t 
 
 The " Libbertye" he has taken, Shakfpeare 
 adds, in having " fomme lyttle deparretedde 
 fromme hymme," " wille notte," he trufts " be 
 blamedde bye'* his M gentle Readerres,'* 
 
 This is the firft inftance of Shakfpeare's ap j 
 pealing to Readers ; in writing his Dramas it 
 is well known that he thought only of Audi- 
 tors and Spectators : bur, as it neceffarily in- 
 cludes an implication that he had prepared this 
 copy of " Kynge Leare'* for the prefs himfelf, 
 we might naturally expect the text to be correct ; 
 at leaft intelligible ; fo far from which, it is, mau- 
 gre Mr. Ireland's preface, the moft incorrect, 
 
 unintel-
 
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 unintelligible text I ever faw, in any copy of any 
 play whatever: and, inftead of fuppofing, as fome 
 may, Mr. Ireland, his fon,or any other intelligent 
 perfon, the fabricator; I mould rather imagine it 
 to be really, and bona fide, an ancient copy ; taken 
 furreptitiouily and erroneoufly, from the mouths 
 of the actors, by fome Printer's illiterate devil: 
 to which had, for private purpofes, been added 
 an imitation of Shakfpeare's fignature, and ad- 
 drefs to his " gentle Readcrres" 
 
 Mr. Ireland fays " that in the paper on which 
 this play [ " Kynge Leare"~\ is written, more 
 than twenty different water-marks appear." 
 
 If this be meant as evidence of the MS. of 
 * Kynge Leare'* being the genuine production, 
 and hand-writing of Shakfpeare; I doubt it will 
 prove a weight in the oppofite fcale : when the 
 opulent Shakfpeare, as he undoubtedly was when 
 his King Lear was produced, fat down to write 
 a play, furely he was furnifhed with a quire or two 
 of paper for the purpofe; the Iheets of which 
 would, of courfe, all bear the fame water-mark : 
 whereas, admitting the copy in queftion to be 
 an ancient, but ftolen, one; a needy hireling, 
 who could not afford better, may be fuppofed 
 to have written on cafually - collected and va- 
 rioully - marked paper; and a modern fabri- 
 cator,
 
 MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS. I'J 
 
 cator; for argument' fake here imagined, would 
 be compelled to collect old paper piece-meal; in 
 all probability, containing (r more than twenty- 
 different water-marks." 
 
 In %t Kynge Leare" p. 4. we read, 
 '* Ande the whorefonne muft be acknowleggede." 
 
 Shakefpeare, if we may credit " The Deed of 
 Trufl to John Heyminge" could, like his own 
 Portia, better teach twenty what were good to be 
 done, than be one of the twenty to follow his own 
 teaching; otherwife he might have recollected 
 this paflage in regard to t{ tbatte Chylde of whom 
 wee havefpokenn butt who muft not be named here?' 
 and who, if fuch " Chylde" ever exifted, feems 
 to have been one whofe fervices' flood bound to 
 Goddejfe Nature. 
 
 The affecledly-antique fpelling in <f Kynge 
 Leare" is, throughout, fo unprecedentedly re- 
 dundant, as, of itferf, to be a convincing proof 
 of inartificial imitation; but the fpelling of the 
 Latin verb in the quotation, p. 4. " Gloflerre 
 Exitte,'* with the old Englifli termination, the 
 double t, and e final, is fo very ridiculous, that, 
 could it be proved to have been by Shakfpeare, 
 we might hereafter fay, that he had fmall Englifli 
 and lefs Latin ; as we have been taught by Ben 
 Jonfon to fay, that he had fmall Latin and lefs 
 
 G Greek
 
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 Greek : but, if he had any Latin, he muft have 
 fpelt the word Exit, not Exitte. To have done, 
 therefore, with " Kynge Leave," at lead for the 
 prefent, the blunders, corruptions, omimons, in- 
 terpolations, and fophiftications, warrant me in fay- 
 ing, that it is impojjible for this MS. of " Kynge 
 Leare" to have been the production and hand- 
 writing of Shakfpeare. 
 
 I fear I am not juftifiable in commenting upon 
 a fuppofed letter from Shakfpeare at Stratford, 
 to a Printer or Bookfcller in London, read to me 
 by Mr. Ireland, and not yet made publick/rclating 
 to the play of " Fortygerne;" which informs us, 
 that the price required for this perhaps-invaluable 
 Drama was demurred at by the fordid trader, al- 
 tho* the Poet profefles to think it one of his beft 
 productions: but I hope I fhall be pardoned, 
 even by the poffeflbr of the letter, for obferving 
 that " The Deed of Truft to John Hemynge'\ in 
 which ( Vorrtygerne" is given to the unnamed 
 " Cbylde", is dated 1611; and, that the corref- 
 pondence between the Author and Trader is, I 
 believe, ftated or imagined to have occurred af- 
 ter Shakfpeare's retirement from the flage, to pafs 
 the calm evening of his days at Stratford. 
 
 Strange !
 
 MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS. I9 
 
 Strange ! that the good, the grateful, the ge- 
 nerous Shakfpeare, (hould give a " P/aye neverr 
 yette Impryntedde" to a certain " Chylde f? hys 
 heires for everre;" that he (hould then fet this 
 very play to fale for publication, at a period when 
 the value of plays depended on their not being 
 printed; and laftly, that, although the writings 
 of this unequalled genius were in his life-time 
 preferred before all others, and this was efteemed 
 by him his bed Play, his demand for it mould not 
 have been " acceeded toe:" but, the immortal 
 Shakfpeare be reduced to the humiliation of re- 
 questing that his favourite Play, and the corref- 
 pondence concerning it, (hould be tranfmitted 
 to him at Stratford upon Avon ! 
 
 " The Deed of Trujl to John Hemynge" and this 
 degrading correlpondence, furely, contradict each 
 other! admitting the latter to be the fact, what 
 was Shakfpeare to do with his admired Play at 
 Stratford? why not commiffion the perfon with 
 whom he had entrufled it, to deliver it to his friend 
 Heminge; that it might be acted in London, or 
 at Bank-fide, for the author or Chylde's emolu- 
 ment? and not have his darling M Vorrtygerne" 
 thrown among lumber, in an obfcure country 
 retirement, to perilh through the ignorance of his 
 furvivors; or, be miraculoufly prcferved, unfeen, 
 unheard-of, nearly two centuries: to enjoy, cum 
 
 multis
 
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 multis aliis, a kind of refurrection, in which the 
 disjointed fragments of onr Poet's mental part 
 are fnpernaturally gathered together, from " mye 
 Play offe Kynge Lcare" to a wager "05 Shyl- 
 Iynges." 
 
 Having thus thrown out a few hafty reflec- 
 tious, I conclude with a fincere wifti ; that, (hould 
 Vorfigem, or any other play imputed to Shake- 
 fpeare, poflefs merit enough to warrant the 
 afTumption; yet, by critical procefs be proved a 
 forgery: the ingenious impoftor may be ranked 
 with Chatterton in fame; but find better fortune 
 than did that ill-fated, and ever-to-be-lamented 
 youth ! 
 
 EXTRACTS
 
 EXT R A CT S 
 
 FROM 
 
 THE VIRGIN QUEEN. 
 
 [ N the " Deed of Truft to John Hemynge" 
 publifhed among the " Mifcellaneous Papers" 
 by Mr. Ireland, is the following donation from 
 Shakfpeare. 
 
 " Toe Mafterr Burbage I give as followithe 
 from the Chefte afs d - mye two Playes of Cymbe- 
 lyne & Othello togethervvithe mye cholen Interlude 
 neverr yette Impryntedd & wrottenn for & bye 
 defyre of oure late gracyowfe &; belovedd Quene 
 Elizabethe called ye Virginn Quene & playde 3 
 tymes before herrefelfc att the Revells ye profytts 
 from pryntyng fame toe bee whollye for s d - Bur-- 
 bage & hys hrs fhoulde hee thynke fyttenne foe 
 toe doe." 
 
 It
 
 22 THE VIRGIN QUEEN, 
 
 It has been fuppofed, by fome who were inclin* 
 ed to think the " Mifcellaneous Papers" genuine, 
 that the Story of this chofen Interlude, as it is 
 termed, of The Virginn ghiene, related to the hif- 
 tory of our Virgin Queen, Elizabeth, herfelf ; but, 
 a woman of her mafculine mind c Aild not have en- 
 dured to fee herfelf pageanted in a Stage-play, or 
 Interlude; and to have heard the fulfome adulation 
 with which a drama, reprefenting her own life and 
 actions, mull have been fraught: no; common 
 fenfe afiures us, that the ftory muft have been 
 foreign to herfelf, and founded either on ancient 
 hiftory, romance, or fable; or, that it was invent- 
 ed by the poet. 
 
 The MS. from which the fubjoined extracts 
 are taken puts the matter out of doubt; The 
 Virgin >ueen being an evident Sequel to The 
 Tempeft; and Claribel, a character therein, who 
 was married to the King of Tunis, being, for rea- 
 fons which are developed in the Drama, The Vir- 
 gin Queen : that it was written by Shakfpeare I will 
 not take upon me to affert ; yet, it is not likely that 
 any other perfon Ihould attempt a Sequel to what 
 feemed fo perfectly concluded as doth the Tem- 
 ped: but, I may fafely fay, that if it was not writ- 
 ten by Shakfpeare, it is written in direct imitation 
 of him. 
 
 Neither
 
 THE VIRGIN QJJEEN. 23 
 
 Neither will I aflert that it is the identical In- 
 terlude or Play mentioned in the u Deed of Gift'," 
 for, I frankly acknowledge I had not thefe extracts 
 from Mr. Ireland : they have been in their pre- 
 fent owner's poflemon twenty years; and the 
 contents of the u Mifc ell arte ous Papers" may not 
 have been in any body's poflemon twenty months. 
 
 The play of The Virgin >ueen t being, as hath 
 been mentioned, a fequel to The Tempejl, refumes 
 the ftory juft where it broke off; and opens, on the 
 morning fubfequent to the meeting and recon- 
 ciliation of the Iflanders and the Neapolitan 
 Voyagers, with an Invocation by Ariel of the 
 Sprites, Fairies, Elves, Goblins, &c. in fubje&ion 
 to Profpero, to aflemble and bid adieu at his em- 
 barkation to their mafler. This fcene is chiefly 
 lyrical. 
 
 After a Comick Scene between Trincalo, Ste- 
 phano, &c. Profpero, Miranda, Ferdinand, and 
 Caliban, enter. 
 
 Profpero, it feems, had intended to leave Ca- 
 liban in comfortable pofleflion of his own cell and 
 moveables, in the Ifland ; but, that plan not ac- 
 cording with the latter's feelings,, this dialogue 
 enfues. 
 
 CALIBAN*
 
 24 THE VIRGIN QUEEN, 
 
 CALIBAN. 
 
 No, 'pr'ythee, Profper, do not leave me here 
 'Mongl't fiends and fpirits ; who, when thou'rt not by 
 To Ihield him, will lone Caliban devour ! 
 
 PROSPERS 
 
 Be fatisfied ; there's nought to apprehend. 
 In Neptune's bed my magick volumes funk, 
 And many fathoms earth'd my broken ftaff, 
 Upon this ifle no fpirit will abide 
 Of good or evil, to delight or fear :- 
 Puppets and elves fhall gambol here no more, 
 In fportive ringlets, by pale Hecate's gleam > ** 
 No more fhall hideous fpedtres fcare thee home, 
 Loifring and grumbling at thy bidden t;aik ; 
 For, when I leave thee, thou'lt be more alone 
 Than when, with Ariel pent i'th' cloven pine, 
 Afliapelefs, helplefs thing, I prowling found thee. 
 
 CALIBAN. 
 
 Which lonelinefs I now miflike and dread, 
 More than thy iprites and fiends ; I felt not, e'er 
 My noble lord came here, its irkfomenefs, 
 But thou haft taught it me : then leave me not, 
 2 pr'ythee ! take me hence ! I'll lick thy feet, 
 And ever be obedient to controul. 
 
 * If this be the production of a modern, he ought to liaveknov/n that 
 Hetate is a tryUyllable ; Shakfpeare, indeed, ufes it as a dyffy liable only. 
 
 PROSPERO,
 
 THE VIRGIN QUEEN. 
 
 PROSPERO. 
 
 What fays Miranda ? does my child approvd 
 We take our late-offending vaffal hence"? 
 
 CALIBAN. 
 
 Speak for me, Miftrefs ! I'll be naught no rrior*# 
 
 MlRANDA. 
 
 t think, dear Sir ! the creature's much reform'd^ 
 
 Since your forgivenefs of his laft offence ; 
 
 And, by commixture with fo many men, 
 
 He hourly bumani'zes ; pity 'twere 
 
 In lonefome wretchednefs toieaVe him/now, 
 
 Perforce a favage to become again. 
 
 CALIBAN'. 
 
 Thanks! miftrefs! thanks ! --thou fmootft-fac'd rriao, 
 fpeak too ! 
 
 FERDINANIX 
 
 'Pleafo you, Sir, take him hence j I dare engage 
 He'll do you duteous fervice in return. 
 
 CALIBAN. 
 
 Good aow^my king, be movMT 
 
 D PROSPERO.
 
 26 THE VIRGIN OUEEN. 
 
 PROSPERO. 
 
 I am content ; 
 
 But, have a care I look you deferve this grace! 
 
 CALIBAN. 
 
 Yea, that will I, in footh, my noble Jerd ! 
 In the new world thou goeft to will I dig 
 For hidden fprings, to flake my mailer's thirft 5 
 Hew thee down fewel j fcoop thee a trim cell ; 
 And be in all things meet thy vaflal true ! 
 
 PROSPERO. 
 
 Enough ; endeavour to do well, good deeds 
 Will follow, and beget thee farther favour. 
 
 CALIBAN. 
 
 Yet grant one other boon, and I am fped ! 
 'Stead of this rugged hide, to 'ray me now 
 In fome fleek garment of my bounteous lord ; 
 Orftill yon dolts thy flave will mooncalf call f 
 
 PROSPERO. 
 *Tweje not amifs ; thou may'ft j but tarry not. 
 
 CALIBAN. 
 
 I thank thy greatnefs ! I'll return anon, 
 And be thy lowly foot-licker for aye ! 
 
 Exit. 
 
 Upon
 
 THE VIRGIN QUEEN. 2"] 
 
 Upon Caliban's return, dreft in an old robe, 
 Gonzalo, who in the interim had entered, and 
 converfed with Profsero, exclaims 
 
 GONZALO. 
 
 I'th'name of all that's favage, what comes here ? 
 The thing we fpake of, furely, new-attir'd. 
 Why, how now, Sirrah ? Wherefore this fine change 
 From a rough fkin to an embroider'd filk ? 
 
 CALIBAN. 
 
 I crav'd this robe, that by yon fcoffing apes 
 I might no more be flouted at, and mock'd ; 
 They call'd me fervant-monfter, mooncalf, fifli ! 
 Perchance they'll think I am more manlike now ; 
 It may be, but I am not near fo warm : 
 A fhaggyhide, from the chill breeze to 'fend, 
 Is far more worth than filk, or glitt'ring gold. 
 
 The entire company being affembled, and in- 
 formation brought that all is ready for their em- 
 barking, Profpero fays, 
 
 Here, then, I bid adieu to folitude ! - 
 Farewell the defert wild, the fanded beach, 
 Where oft, from dawn to duflcy e'en, I've (train' d 
 My care-dimm'd opticks to defcry a fail j 
 Farewell my low-rooPd cave, whofe flinty bed 
 My humbled body hardinefs hath taught, 
 But never callous made my feeling mind ; 
 While fome, whofe limbs enervate upon down, 
 Permit their hearts to harden into flone. 
 Farewell adverfity \ O, bed of fchools ! 
 
 D z Still
 
 ^8 HE VIRGIN QUEEN. 
 
 Still may J pradice what in thee I learn'd. 
 Farewell my forrows all! hail, fmiling peace ! 
 And laud we Heav'n for this our bleft releafe ! 
 
 After a caution given to Profpero by Ariel, for 
 a very particular reafon affigned, not to touch at 
 any land till they had reach'd their place of defti- 
 nation, the whole company embark ; Spirits of 
 various denominations take leave of Frofpero in a 
 Lyrical Farewell : which concludes the rft 
 Aft. 
 
 In fome excellent papers on The Tempejt, in 
 The Adventurer, the writer of them, fpeaking of 
 the brutal barbarity of the fon of Sycorax, fays-^- 
 ** I always lament that our author has apt preferved 
 this fierce and implacable fpirit in Calyban, to the 
 end of the play ; inftead of which, he has, I think, 
 injudiciously put into his mouth, words that im- 
 ply repentance and understanding. " 
 
 I'll be wife hereafter 
 
 " And feek for grace." &c. 
 
 Whether the fine tafte of the elegant writer did 
 but coincide with Shakfpeare's then-unknown am- 
 plification of this fingular character ; or whether, 
 if it be an imitationpnly, the copier availed him- 
 felf of Dr. Hawluworth 's hint, is a queftion for 
 the connoifTeurs : certain it is, that the impla- 
 cable
 
 THE VIRGIN QUEEN. 2g 
 
 cable fpirit of this demi-devil burfts forth, the 
 firfl opportunity it hath of again (hewing itfelf. 
 
 On Caliban's being aflured, in the firfl Aft, that 
 he ihall accompany his rnafter, and ftill-beloved 
 miflrefs, he fays, apart, 
 
 Now fliall I fee the wond'rous, yearn'd-for, place, 
 Where many Profpers and Mirandas dwell : 
 He calls it Milan : I opine 'tis Heav'n ! 
 It mu ft, perforce ; for many fuch as fhe 
 Would make a Heav'n e'en of this defert ifle ! 
 
 And when he firfl fees the fhip, he exclaims, 
 
 O, Setebos ! 
 
 What glorious thing is yon', as mountain huge ! 
 Doth firmly reft upon th'unftable fea ? 
 Fanning, with flickering top, the welkin's cheek! 
 'Tis fure fome god, is come to bear us hence, 
 To Milan ; which I rightly judg'd was Heav'n ! 
 
 Being, in the fecond Al, on the deck, with 
 Stephano and Trinculo,they converfeas follows ; 
 
 STEPHANO. 
 
 Now, *Ban I how do you ftomach failing ? is't not rare- 
 to (kim like a gull, thus, 'tween wind and water? how doft 
 like it, eh ? 
 
 CALIBAN. 
 I like it much ! This ii a brave, fine god ! 
 
 And
 
 30 THE VIRGIN QUEEN. 
 
 And bears us daintily ; how fwift he is ! 
 He feuds the ocean fleet as fawn the earth ! 
 O, that my dam were living to behold him ! 
 Grim Setebos fhe would renounce with fcorn ; 
 Low, proftrate, fall with me ; and thus adore ! 
 
 \Kncehttg, 
 
 TRINCULO. 
 
 What's in the wind, now, 'trow ? 
 
 CALIBAN. 
 
 Thou unmatch'd wonder ! miracle of pow'rl 
 Hear thy vow'd vaflal's pray'r, and grant his fuit ! 
 Give me but vengeance on my tyrant lord, 
 (Whom, tho' I feign'd repentance, I deteft I) 
 And full fruition of his daughter's charms, 
 Thy bond-flave worfhipper I'll be for aye ! 
 
 \Rifmg. 
 
 TRINCULO. 
 
 Lo ! the apoftate has got him a new idol, Stephano ; you 
 may return to your dog and bufli again ; he'll worfliip you 
 no more. 
 
 CALIBAN. 
 
 What means this giddinefs ? I cannot fiand! 
 
 TRINCALO. 
 
 And mark, if the mooncalf be not drunk too ? 
 
 STEPHANO. 
 
 Out, you ninny ! 'tis only the fiiip's motion makes him 
 flagger fo j as it did me erewhile. 
 
 TRINCULO.
 
 THE VIRGIN QUEEN. 3 1 
 
 TRINCALO. 
 
 By'r lady, and fo it may ; but a fiierris-fack was mix'd 
 with the fliip's motion when you caught the ftaggers. 
 
 CALIBAN. 
 
 Sure I'm become what they call drunk again ! 
 But know not how ; for, fave meer element, 
 Nought have I fwallow'd fince I left the ifle. 
 
 TRINCALO. 
 
 See how he reels ! 
 
 CALIBAN. 
 
 I pr'ythee (hew where I may lie and fleep, 
 That Profper fee me not ; elfe he will chide I 
 
 STEPHANO. 
 
 Why, furely, the floallow'brain'd ideot thinks himfeir 
 drunk indeed ! 
 
 TRINCALO, 
 
 A rare conceit ! well humour it ; and, while he i* 
 napping, if we can find the old necromancer in the; mood, 
 try to get off keeping watch here at night. 
 
 STEPHANO. 
 
 Agreed. Come along, you drunken owl ! and we'll 
 lead you where you may rooft in fa/ety, till you are 
 fober. 
 
 CALIBAN, 
 
 But am I drunk in footh ? I pr'ythee fay 
 
 TRINCALO,
 
 2 THE VIRGIN QUEENi 
 
 TRINCALO. 
 
 Drunk, quotha ? there's the queftion ! ay, reeling-ripe, 
 as when the piping fairy led us by the ears into the pool ; 
 then, indeed, it was with fack : now with only the lliip's 
 motion : but, a fmall matter will turn a weak head ! 
 
 CALIBAN. 
 
 Give me fack now ! for I can but be drunk ! 
 'Twill drown my fear, and make me full of mirth j 
 I may as well be jocund-drunk, as fad : 
 Give me fome fack, I pr'ythee, ere 1 deep i 
 
 STEPHANO. 
 
 Here's a fUggon for you, full ! the king in the cabin 
 can't drink d fi nk better. 
 
 CALIBAN. 
 
 'Tis paffing good ! a king 'twill make of me ! 
 /rwV This ihallj^pillow be ; I'll drink and fleep ; 
 ' Nor dread four Profper, while of this I've ftore. 
 
 Trincalo and Stephano having in their appli- 
 cation to Profpero told him that Caliban was 
 drunk and afleep, are opderd to fetch him : they 
 aroufe, and bring him into the cabin. 
 
 CALIBAN. 
 
 Whither dofr lead' me ? what, doth Profper fleep ? 
 And fhall we brain the hated tyrant now ! 
 
 PROSPERO. 
 
 Approach, thou earth ! thou drunken, murd'rous Have I' 
 
 CALIBAN.
 
 THE VIRGIN QJJEEN. 33 
 
 CALIBAN. 
 
 Thou ly'ft ! t am no flave ; but free as thou f 
 If I perchance am drunk, 'twas this huge god, 
 Whofe man-fed belly we are now within, 
 Did make me fo while 1 did worfhip him. 
 Muft I be ever thus for nothing chid ! 
 
 Profpero, to pnnifh his relapfe, enjoins him to 
 remain on the deck, with the others who had 
 offended him, all night. 
 
 The} r endeavour to footh, and reconcile Caliban 
 to what they have brought on him, by fome com- 
 mon-place jefts ; biit the mo'nftef, riot being now 
 in a joking humour, fays- 
 Peace, ye dull fools ! I will no more endure 
 This fcurvy jefting ; ye are bafe and falfe ! 
 Ye firft, like fiends, feduce, and then betray 1 
 Beware, foul traitors, how henceforth ye mock; 
 Left into both t ftrike my (harpeh'd fangs, 
 And gainft each other dafli ye, mongrels, dead ! 
 
 They pacify him at length, by promifing id 
 devife fome revenge againft Profpero; and he 
 exclaims, 
 
 The thought of that would make me brave the night, 
 Tho* livid light'nings, darting, finged my head ; 
 And rifted rocks 'mid yerty waves o'erdafrVd! 
 
 Me is, at length, wrought into good humour; 
 
 and the lecond act concludes with their finging 
 
 E the
 
 34 THE VIRGIN QJJEEN. 
 
 the entire catch, of which in The Tempeji we have 
 only this fragment ; 
 
 " Flout 'em, and fkout 'em ; and (kout 'em, and flout 'em ; 
 " Thought is free." 
 
 The " gentle Readerres" muft fuppofe other 
 fcenes to have intervened ; but Caliban being fo 
 unique a character, I was folicitous that tr\ 
 extra&s I procured mould relate chiefly to him r 
 in the third Act he is feen dreaming of Miranda, 
 and talking in his fleep, on the deck ; 
 
 Ho, ho! 'tis heaven ! now I ambleft indeed ! 
 
 Kifs me again, my ftar-eyed Paragon ! 
 
 Thy mouth's more fvveet than lufcious honey -bags. 
 
 Come wtth me, fwan-lkin ! and I'll fhevv thee where 
 Thefe nails have dug for Profper a deep pit, 
 Falfe-furfac'd quaintly with inviting herbs ; 
 Within lurk adders, urchins, fcorpions, toads ! 
 That, if i' th' fall the tyrant be not kill'd, 
 By venom'd bites and flings he'll mad expire ! 
 
 The Spirit of his Dam, Sycorax, defcends, 
 amidft thunder, lightning, &c. 
 
 Caliban
 
 THE VIRGIN QUEEN. $5 
 
 Caliban awakes. 
 
 O, Setebos, what a rare dream was this f 
 
 To kifs my miftrefs' honey-dropping lips, 
 
 And Day and Night ! do I yet fleep or wake ? 
 
 Wing'd like a bat methinks I fee my dam ! 
 
 In dreams I have oft beheld thee, but ne'er thus ; 
 
 Thou wilt not harm me, Sycorax ? lo, I kneel 1 
 
 Sycorax, who at her death was H doom'd for a 
 certain term to faji in fires,'* replies 
 
 Fear not, my fon 1 this very hour 
 Was Sycorax freed ; a Spirit of pow'r ! 
 On earth to rule almoft divine ! 
 This watry element's not mine. 
 Then, if thou hat'ft thy tyrant lord, 
 Unto thy mother's heft accord. 
 To drive him fwift into my toil, , 
 By force, or by fome fubtle guile, 
 The pilot caufe fteer ftraigTor land ; 
 There nothing can my power withftand ! 
 A forcerefs, at my bidding, there 
 E'en now his torments doth prepare : 
 And, to protect thee from annoy, 
 Invulnerable be, my joy ! 
 
 Sebaftian and Anthonio, having returned to their 
 villainy, abet the monfter; whofe firft ftep to 
 diftrefs Profpero is the deftroying, or throwing 
 over-board, all the provifions ; excepting what is 
 neceflary for himfelf and his party. 
 
 E 2 Profpero
 
 36 THE VIRGIN QUEEN. 
 
 Profpero and the reft, being informed of thcfe 
 dilafters, repair to the deck ; Caliban thus ex 
 ults over his matter :- 
 
 Ho, ho, ho, ho ! I now (hall be reveng'd 
 For all my pinches, flitches, racking cramps ! 
 My unthank'd fervices, and toilfome tafks ! 
 Bearing huge logs of wood, for needful fire 
 To drefs the meat I firft had hunted down ; 
 From the quick freflies fetching wholfome drink ; 
 For lulcious fhell-fiih, or choice callow birds, 
 Climbing fteep craggy cliffs,- and brittle boughs ; 
 From which when I have fall'n, and gotten hurt, 
 To heal my wounds thou, tyrant, gave'ft me blows ! 
 
 During the altercation, Ferdinand fays ; 
 
 let us, my friends, 
 
 Aflail the triple knot ; and, when fubdu'd, 
 Teach them the way to iaft, as they would us. 
 
 CALIBAN. 
 
 Try firft to matter me, weak, ifripling boy ! 
 I guard the food, eke moil delicious wine ; 
 O'ercover'd with this now-defpifed robe ! 
 And, 'lefs on land ye go in fearch of more, 
 Ye, famifhing, fliall fee us glut and gorge, 
 VYhilft, ravenous grown, each other ye devour ! 
 
 PROSPERO. 
 Foul hag-feed, hence ! down to the hold, begone ! 
 
 CALIBAN. 
 
 Begone thyfelf, proud tyrant ! I'll not budge. 
 My cruel mafler thou halt been too long ! 
 
 I now
 
 THE VIRGIN Q^EEN. 37 
 
 I now am thine ! and, if thou difobey'it, 
 The (tripes and pinches thou inflicVd'it on me, 
 On thy curil flclh will I, tenfold, repay ! 
 
 PROSPERO. 
 
 How now, bold flave ! this language to thy lord ? 
 Who, with a word, can itrike thee, inftant', dead ! 
 
 CALIBAN. 
 
 Thou ly'll J thou canft not vain, forgetful fool ! 
 Thy fpells, thy charms, yea all thy pow'r is gone ; 
 Which did controul the great and lefler light, 
 Subjected Spirits, and made me thy flavc ! 
 In that fame fea thy potent magick ftorm'd, 
 Like a dull thing thou drowned'ft all thine art ! 
 Now Caliban, more ftrong, is Profper's lord ; 
 And thou muft him obey, as he did thee. 
 
 The good old lord, Gonzalo, during the con- 
 ceit fays, 
 
 Of forty devils were the pow'r combin'd, 
 
 Thus would I flrive to quell this hell-born beaft ! 
 
 CALIBAN.* 
 
 Ho, ho, ho, ho ! thy fword is blunt, old man ! 
 Now could I grind thy pithlefs bones to duft ; 
 Rend ye to fhreds, or tread ye into earth ! 
 
 Bur, 
 
 * Could any thing really perfuado me that an original and hitherto, 
 unpubli(hed play, written hy Shakfpeare, were in being, two palTages in 
 this fpeech would ; which are fo fimilar to two others in Macbeth and 
 A\ you hie it, that it is not probable any imitator would have ventured on 
 f uch clofe parallels.
 
 38 THE VIRGIN QUEEN. 
 
 But, get ye gone ! ye may as foon wound air, 
 
 Water, or fire, as charmed Caliban ! 
 
 The i pirit of my dam is itrong in me ! 
 
 Hath callous made me to weak mortals' blows ; 
 
 And your united force I ftand, and dare ! 
 
 Ho, ho, ho, ho ! what, are ye all afeard ? 
 
 GONZALO. 
 
 By'r Lakin ! I yet never was before ; 
 
 But my old blood's now curdled in my veins : 
 
 PROSPERO. 
 
 Put up your fwords, good firs, they're but as ftraws ; 
 A charmed life, in aid of ftrength, now given, 
 This beaft hath pow'r to bring us all to nought L 
 My life alone fell Sycorax doth feek j 
 And that, to fave you, will I gladly yield ! 
 Thou more-than -devil ! fpeak thy dam's beheft j 
 Which, though deftru&ion follow, I obey ! 
 
 CALIBAN. 
 
 Make straight to land, dread Sycorax commands ! 
 
 What there fhall hap I know not ; but, I have hope 
 
 All but thy daughter will my dam deftroy ! 
 
 My fruftratepurpofe then will I effect. 
 
 And people th' unknown clime with Calibans! 
 
 FERDINAND. 
 
 Peace, monfter, peace ! that heav'n will ne'er permit. 
 
 PROSPERO. 
 
 Patience, my fon ! my life alone is fought ; 
 And what's a life, compared with chaftity, 
 Connubial crown ! we come and go as faft, 
 
 *As
 
 THE VIRGIK Q^TEEN. 39 
 
 *As mill-fail fhadows courfe each other o'er 
 The funny earth, in an unceafing round! 
 Nor can I perifh, but by that decree, 
 To which who would not chearfully reiign ! 
 For land, ho ! pilot ; fearlefs I'll afliore, 
 To prove the utmoft malice of the fiend ! 
 Lament not, fhould I fall ; they are not ills, 
 Tho' they appear fuch, righteous heaven wills ! 
 
 The Scene clofes, and the third act concludes 
 with a convocation of Ariel, and other good 
 Spirits; who having determined to counteract, if 
 poffible, the machinations of Sycorax, &c. fing a 
 hymn and chorus, expreffive of their ardour in 
 the caufe of Virtue. 
 
 The fourth act brings us acquainted with Ab- 
 dallah, (in The Tempeji the namelefs) King of 
 Tunis, lately married to Claribel, daughter of 
 Alonfo, king of Naples. 
 
 In an old geographical book in my poflemon, 
 date unknown, is the following paflage ; 
 
 "This 
 
 * As mill-fail fliadows &c. 
 
 This paffage ftruck. me, at firft, as too mean and familiar for the mouth 
 of Profpero ; till I recollected an almoft-fimilar one in the firft at of 
 The Tempe/t; 
 
 * ' where thou dldft vent thy groans, 
 
 * As fall as mill-wheels ftrika."
 
 40 THE VIRGIN Qi7EEtf. 
 
 " This whole Countrie (at this day) is called 
 the kingdom of Tunis : the king whereof is a 
 kinde of ftipendary unto the Turke : the people 
 that inhabite there are generally Sarazens, and 
 doe profefle Mahomet.** 
 
 It has always appeared very ftrange to me, yet 
 I have never met with any obfervation on it, that 
 Shakfpeare mould fo grofsly have erred againft the- 
 known laws and cuftoms of nations, as to couple 
 the daughter of a Chriftian king with a Maho- 
 metan ! 
 
 For a royal Proteftant to marry a Papifl, or 
 vice verfa, required a difpenfation from the Pope; 
 but, to permit the union of a Chriftian princefs and 
 an infidel was,.Lbelieve, only in the power of a 
 Poet; who ^M&ki plead in extenuation, that 
 u the truejl poetry is the mojl feigning^* We flial* 
 find, however, by this Sequel, that Shakfpeare, 
 if it be his, was not iufenfible of the faux pas he 
 had committed ; as the marriage is fo very infe- 
 licitous, that the Bride, poor thing ! remains a 
 Virgin : whence the title of this chofeix Play or 
 Interlude, The Virgin Queen. 
 
 <c 'Fore the beginning of this play," a Sorce- 
 refs, (formerly leagued with Sycorax, who was 
 banifihed from Argier, or Algiers, to Profpero's 
 
 ifle)
 
 the virgin queen. 41 
 
 iile) was enamoured of Abdailah ; he rejecting her 
 offers of love, and marrying Claribel, the enraged 
 witch prevents confummation ; conveys the un- 
 happy pair by her "Jo potent art" from Tunis, 
 and holds them in durance : but, for that even 
 Magick cannot quite feparate a loving married 
 pair, they are permitted to fee and converfe with 
 each other daily. 
 
 Tn this pofture of affairs the fourth A6t opens ; 
 difcovering Abdailah alone, reclining in a fump-" 
 tuous pavilion. 
 
 ABDALLAIL 
 
 Nights vapours are cfifpers'd ; and the clear morn 
 Bluihes like bafhful bride from couch upns'n ; 
 Whofe yellow treffes, all difhevell'd, throw 
 A golden glare around, creating day ! 
 But what is day after drear nights like mine ? 
 From my fweet bride eftrang'd, my Claribel 1 
 Yet, wherefore do I thus indulge defpair ? 
 Still may I hope to be deliver'd hence j 
 Still hope I fhall regain my throne and crown ; 
 From which, as in a dream, my queen and felf 
 By Hyrca's forcery were hither brought, 
 Me for her paramour ; detefted hag ! 
 And my fair bride her low-degraded flave I 
 But, foft ! I hear the hafteful itepof love! 
 'Tis Claribel! fly forrow from my breaft ! 
 For where fhe comes nought can abide but joy ! 
 
 Enter ClariheU 
 
 $ CLARIBEL.
 
 42 THE VIRGIN QpEENJ 
 
 CLARIBEL. 
 
 My dear Abdallah ! mine and Tunis* lord ! 
 Fain would I greet thee with a happy day ; 
 But the fell Sorcerefs, Hyrca, wild with ire, 
 That her foul paffion ftill you treat with fcorn, 
 Since midnight hath been working fpells, and charms^ 
 The prelude of refolv'd deftru&ion nigh ? 
 
 ABDALLAH. 
 
 Were't but myfelf her wicked pow'r could reach, 
 I'd meet her utmoft fury with a fmile ; 
 Yielding my firm and unpolluted flefh 
 By fiery pincers to be burnt and torn I 
 
 CLARIBEL. 
 
 And thinks my love that only him would harm ? 
 Thou know'ft whate'er of ill mould thee betide, 
 Muft wound the foul of doating Claribel ' 
 But, for fome hope to mitigate this fear, 
 As on the ocean's marge e'en now I gazed, 
 I faw a gallant veffel furl her fails ; 
 Whilft from her boat flept divers on the fhore : 
 And fee, dear lord, already they approach. 
 
 Enter Profpero and Miranda, 
 
 MIRANDA. 
 
 'Befeech you, Sir ! venture no farther on ! 
 
 PROSPERO. 
 
 Fear nothing, dear ! lo, yonder are a pair, 
 Of human form, and moft majeftic port ; 
 I will accoft them. 
 
 MIRANDA.
 
 THE VIRGIN QUEEN. 43 
 
 MIRANDA. 
 
 Rather, Sir, avoid them ! 
 
 They're fpirits ! and, tho' one feerns fair and good, 
 
 That, with fo dark an hue, is fure a fiend ! 
 
 PROSPERO. 
 
 Collecl thyfelf, my child ! 'tis but the tinft 
 Peculiar to the race in Africk born, 
 Upon which coaft we now in fafety tread ; 
 E'en fuch a one, yet courteous as ourfelves, 
 Did Ferd'nand's lifter, Claribel, hte wed : 
 Should this man prove like what Fame blazons him, 
 And from fell Sycorax' malice Heav'n doth ftiield, 
 We cannot doubt of fuccour in our need. 
 
 CLARIBEL. 
 
 Heard you, Abdallah, what this ftranger faid ? 
 
 ABDALLAH. 
 
 I did ; and am abforb'd in wonder, fweet \ 
 
 'Pleafe you, approach, grave Sir ! and you, fair maid I 
 
 Nor lack for aught, iavc what we alfo want. 
 
 Enter Ferdinand^ his fvjord dravjn ; and y foon aftcr t Alonzoy 
 Gonzahy Adrian^ and Francifco. 
 
 FERDINAND. 
 
 The beaft no longer feems invulnerable, 
 
 But fhuns my fword j and, with his foul compeers, 
 
 Growling, a different track from us purfues. 
 
 F 2 PROSP&RO.
 
 44 THE VIRGIN QJJEEN. 
 
 PROSPERO. 
 
 To fliare my fortunes fince ye all perfift, 
 As yet, 'thank Heav'n ! we are not only fafe, 
 But landed on a feeming plenteous fpot ; 
 Where are inhabitants, of manners mild 
 As their foft climate's fweet furfounding air. 
 
 ALONSO. 
 
 The ]VIoorifh king, Abdallah, and my child !- 
 'Tis fure enchanted ground ! Are we in Tunis, 
 A delufive dream,r-or, is it witchcraft all ? 
 
 QONZALQ. 
 
 Witchcraft, I doubt! and thefe but devils, Sir, 
 Hid in your children's fhapes. 
 
 ALONSO. 
 
 Art thou my child, 
 
 An iniubftantial (hade, or wicked fiend ? 
 
 FERDINAND, unbracing Claribd. 
 
 Shade is it none, but Claribel hcrfelf ; 
 No fiend had ever pow'r to look fo fair 1 
 
 CLARIBEL, kneeling to Alonfo. 
 
 Aftonifliment hath held me dumb till now ! 
 'Tis your own Claribel, your wretched child ! 
 
 ALONSO. 
 
 Ha ! wherefore wretched ? Speak, ungrateful king! 
 Did I deprive our Europe of thofe charms, 
 To have my child in Tunis wretched made ? 
 
 CLARIBEL.
 
 THE VIRGIN QUEEN. 45 
 
 CLARIBEL. 
 
 Oh, no ! alack, Sir, we are far from thence ! 
 
 ABDALLAH. 
 
 Great king of Naples ! my moil honour'd fire ! 
 Whom to behold again, was pad my hope j 
 Fly with your goodly company this place, 
 And refcue hence your Claribel and fon! 
 But, if that may not be, fecure yourfelves. 
 
 ALONSO. 
 
 What means my fon ! know you of ill awaits ? 
 
 ABDALLAH. 
 
 Here 'bides a potent Sorcerefs ; by whofe art 
 From Tunis we were hither ftrangely brought, 
 Soon as your royal fleet had homeward fail'd j 
 Myfelf the objeft of her foul defire, 
 My virgin-bride degraded to a (lave ! 
 Her the vile witch would elfewhere fain have ftay'd, 
 But had not pow'r ; and, though till now debarr'd 
 Chafte Hymen's rites, on each returning morn 
 Like th'eaftern fun flie glads my longing eye ! 
 for witchcraft cannot quite divide the pair, 
 Whofe hearts by love and wedlock are entwin'dj 
 
 PROSPERO. 
 
 Myfterious Heav'n fure pointed out this path 
 To free from hence thefe twain ! my mind's at reft ! 
 Let us, my friends, ftraigvi&ual home our fliip ; 
 And, nought impeding, quickly re-embark. 
 Come, I'll inftruft you, Sirs, how to enfnare 
 
 The
 
 46 THE VIRGIN QJJEEN. 
 
 The fkipping kid, and dappled, bounding fawn ; 
 Whilft younger Ferdinand doth agile climb 
 The cliffs and trees, for birdlings nefled there. 
 
 FERDINAND. 
 
 Miranda, fweet ! flay thou with Claribel, 
 Thy Ferdinand's lov'd fitter, and now thine ; 
 I muft accompany our fires and friends, 
 Swift as the roe-buck to outftrip our game ! 
 
 ABDALLAH. 
 
 I'll guide you, Sirs, to where you'll plenteous find 
 
 The finn'd or feather'd race ; unto the haunts 
 
 Of the fleet venifon, the clamb'ring kid, 
 
 And, though to flaughter them doth irk my heart ! 
 
 The lambkin, frifking near his fleecy dam : 
 
 Or, if a nobler game you would purfue, 
 
 The boar, fierce buffalo, and angry bear.* 
 
 PROSPERO.' 
 
 Lead on, great Sir ! 'twill be a royal chafe, 
 Wherein a king doth roufe for us our game ! 
 Stay with this fair one, chuck ! nor fear mifchance. 
 This wond'rous meeting Heav'n, I'm Aire, defign'd 
 The foretaftc of flill greater blifs in flore I 
 
 [Exeunt all but Claribel and Miranda. 
 
 CLARIBEL. 
 
 Stranger ! with whom my Ferdinand feems charm'd, 
 Say, whence and who thou art ? a queen ? his bride ? 
 Whom, fince my nuptials, he hath woo'd and wed ? 
 
 MIRANDA. 
 
 I fear that Shakfpeare, or his imitator, has, in this enumeration of 
 creatures, mentioned fome not indigenous to the northern coaft of Africa; 
 where the fcene is now fuppofed to lie.
 
 THE VIRGIN QJJEEN. 47 
 
 MIRANDA. 
 
 Anfwer me firft. Why did you kifs my love ? 
 I much admir'd, till then, your angel-face ! 
 Are you an angel, or of woman-kind ? 
 For nought to judge by faw I e'er before ; 
 Except the mocking fhadow of myfelf, 
 And Ariel, my grave fire's angelick fprite ; 
 You mod refemble me, tho' fairer far ! 
 
 CLARIBEL. 
 
 Thy fpeech is pafling Orange ! but, if t be footh, 
 Thy innocence deceives thee overmuch. 
 No more can I, a woman as thou art, 
 Compare with thee, fairer than beauty's queen, 
 Than can with Ferdinand the Moor, my lord ; 
 Whom, ne'erthelefs, pad health or life I love ! 
 
 MIRANDA. 
 
 What, that dark creature! 'tis not poffible ; 
 As foon the fwan may on the raven dote ! 
 
 CLARIBEL. 
 
 I thought like thee when firft the Moor I faw, 
 And almoft loath'd where duty bade me love ; 
 But my Abdallah has a fnow-white foul, 
 Which o'er his hue a bleaching tuflre throws ! * 
 'Thas won that heart Alonfo could not give, 
 And chang'd my meer obedience into choice. 
 Then be not jealous, faireft ! thou'ft no caufe ? 
 Much as a filler mould I Ferd'nand love, 
 But truly, no jot more. 
 
 * This reminds us of Defdemona's expreffion 
 " I faw Othello's viCsge in his mind." 
 
 MIRANDX.
 
 4^ THE VIRGIN QUEENS 
 
 MIRANDA. 
 
 Jealous 1 what's that ? 
 
 Is it a Naples, or a Tunis word ? 
 
 I know not what it means ; but am content ! 
 
 So kind you look, and fair you fpeak, I'm fure 
 
 You cannot mean to do me any wrong. 
 
 CLARIBEL. 
 
 Come, then, fwcet-heart ! and, in the adjacent bow'r, 
 Repofe thee 'till our lords and fires return ; 
 Tafte of the pine, or more nutritious fig ; 
 Whillt the pomegranate and {harp citron's juice, 
 Temp'ring each other, form thy mingled draught. 
 
 MIRANDA. 
 
 Shew me, I pray, to the clear, running flream } 
 With, if you have't, a little new-drawn milk; 
 Some berries, cracknels, or ripe ears of corn ; 
 And, our Creator thanking firft, then thee 
 For thy much goodnefs' to a ftranger-maid ; 
 I'll break my faft, nor covet daintier fare ! 
 
 Caliban, with the two villains, Anthonio and" 
 Sebaftian, having remained perdue, enter, and 
 fuddenly feize the unguarded females ; a conteft 
 enfues between the three brutes on their account : 
 Anthonio claiming to have Claribel, and Sebaf- 
 tian attaching himf elf to Miranda. 
 
 CALIBAN. 
 
 But whom fliall I have, if yfeu each take one if 
 My miftrefs haye I ever hunger'd for ! 
 
 Sty'd
 
 THE VIRGIN QJJEEN. 49 
 
 Sty'd in a rock with her, on acorns fed, 
 Sea-brine, or ftagnant, mantled-pool, to drink, 
 On her alone I, gluttonirtg, could have gorg'd, 
 And nothing lack'd, having my nonpareil ! 
 
 [Attempting to clafp MiranJJ* 
 
 MIRANDA. 
 
 Save me, Anthonio ! fave your helplefs niece f 
 
 ANTHONIO. 
 
 My charge is here ; Sebaflian yon will fhield. 
 
 Sebastian; 
 
 Forego your hold ! Miranda muft be mine! 
 
 The other female, if Anthonio lift, 
 
 Thou'rt free to take ; but this I'll guard with life r 
 
 CALIBAN. 
 
 'Tis well there is another to appeafe, 
 
 Elfe her I'd have, or will or nill ye, lord ! 
 
 This is as red and white, and finer far ! 
 
 Wilt thou be mine, my jay, my parroquet ? 
 
 Thou'rt vvond'rous gaudy j I fhall love thee muck f* 
 
 ANTHONIO. 
 
 Stand off, fir brute ! this is my lovely prize ; 
 Miranda you declar'd was your defire ; 
 Her muft you have, or none f 
 
 * This filthy monfter having in The Tmfefl, fugscfteJ to StepharV 
 that he might pofiefs Miranda ; it is not to be wondered at, that he \i 
 here content to exchange her for Claribel. 
 
 O CALIBAN,
 
 50 THE VIRGIN QUEEN, 
 
 CALIBAN. 
 
 Oh, oh, oh, oh ! [ Roaring tremcnJouQy with anger. 
 
 CLARIBEL. 
 Heav*n, what a conteft ! 
 
 MIRANDA; 
 
 No way to efcape ? 
 
 CALIBAN. 
 
 What, am I both denied ? then, both I'll have ! 
 Your holds forego, and quit them ftraioto me, 
 Or, by my dam's god, Setebos, I fwear, 
 I'll flay ye, quick ! then tear you joint from joint !* 
 
 (Caliban feiz'utg the men, the females get free.) 
 
 CLARIBEL. 
 Fly, fly ! Abdallah ! 
 
 MIRANDA. 
 
 Ferd'nand ! father ! friends ! 
 
 [Exeunt, feverally, 
 
 CALIBAN. 
 
 Let Ioofe, ye barnacles ! they both are flown ! 
 
 * I'll flay ye quick ! lie Quick may here fignify either alive or (maw 
 diatcly; the former I conceive to hare been the Author's idea, as it gives 
 the more fpirited and favage meaning. I'll fay you alive, is a common 
 xprefTion from vulgar parents and nurfes to froward children. 
 
 ANTH0N1O.
 
 THE VIRGIN QUEEN. $1 
 
 ' ANTHONIO. 
 
 We hold thee not ! 'tis thou detaineft us ! 
 Darting your talons through our robes and fkins, 
 Which you can fcarce withdraw 1 
 
 SEBASTIAN. 
 I'm ftruck to th'bone ! 
 
 CALIBAN. 
 
 Thus, then, I wrench them forth ! 
 
 ANTHONIO and SEBASTIAN. 
 
 Oh! 
 
 CALIBAN. 
 
 Howl ye ? dogs ! 
 
 If I could tarry I would give ye caufe ; 
 
 And into atoms rend your quivering hearts ! 
 
 [Exeunt, federally 
 
 Comick matter now, as throughout the play, 
 takes place ; which relieves the weight and terror 
 of the ferious fcenes. 
 
 The fifth Act commences with the Monfter, 
 in purfuit of the females. 
 
 CALIBAN. 
 
 I can find neither ! and could tear myfelf 
 For letting them, fo dolt-like, both efcape ! 
 Had I kept either of them 't had fuffic'd j 
 
 G 2 Though
 
 5^ THE VIRGIN QUEEN-. 
 
 Though my own miftrefs leifer I'd enjoy l / 
 
 Nor can I fpy my dam ! I hop'd t'have feen 
 The wond'rous fpirit, when we reachM the land, 
 Deftroy that tyrant Pi ofper! or, while-ere, 
 I had done't upon the fea ! but, what comes here ? 
 Methinks I hear a footfall in yon dell ; 
 Ferchance it is mymiflrcfs ; that it may ! 
 I will enbufh me ! then, fhou'ld fhe approach, 
 Like cat-a-mountain fpringing, feize my prey ! 
 
 MIRANDA, entering. 
 Whither, ah whither fhall I bend my fteps, 
 To feek my ftraying father and dear lord ? 
 Or hide me from Protect me, heav'n ! Pm caught ! 
 
 CALIBAN. 
 
 'Scape if thou can'ft again .' now thou art mine, 
 'Spite of thofe chattering and deceitful apes ; 
 Who would have talk'd me out of thee, my right ! 
 
 Or that much finer, but lefs beauteous, fhe. 
 
 MIRANDA. 
 
 Be gentle, Caliban ! gripe not fo hard ' 
 Left with your talons my frail lkin you tear ! 
 
 CALIBAN. 
 
 I cannot harm thee ! tho' I meant thee fcathe, 
 
 In punifhment for thy late fcornful flouts! 
 
 Be thou but kind, I will be fo to thee ! 
 
 MIRANDA. 
 
 * This erotick ufe of the verb enjoy, I thought not Shakfpearean, till I 
 
 recolle&ed the follow ing pafiage in King Lear : 
 
 __ neither can be enjoy'd, 
 
 " If both remain alive." 
 Yet, can it be imagined that Caliban could have learnt it, with this pecu- 
 liar and indelicate fenfe, from hit only teachers, Profpero and Miranda ? 
 I fear the author, whether ancient or modern, in this inftance forgot 
 himfelf.
 
 THE VIRGIN QUEEN. 53 
 
 MIRANDA. 
 Alack, alack ! when was I otherwife ? 
 
 CALIBAN. 
 
 Full oft to me ! although I ever lov'd, 
 And fondled thee ! When firir. into my ifle 
 Profper, a puling babe, Miranda brought ; 
 Weeping through hunger, fhiv'ring with bleak winds ; 
 I lick'd the tears from thy frore, blubber'd cheeks, 
 Noufled and chafed thee in my hairy arms, 
 Hugging thee clofe as marmofets their young ; 
 Fed thee with eggs ; into thy pretty mouth 
 From the goat's dug prefs'd the warm, foft'ring milk j 
 Of thiftle-down and gofs'mer made thy bed j 
 Then hufh'dand lullaby'd thee to thy fleep, 
 And lack'd my own, that thine might be fecure. 
 
 MIRANDA. 
 I ever drove to thank thee for't ; and frill, 
 As from my father fpeech and fenfe I learn'd, 
 Delighted in imparting both to thee J 
 I never laid upon thee harfh command ; 
 
 Affilted always to trim up our cell ; 
 
 And, in each look, word, deed, was ever kind ! 
 
 CALIBAN. 
 
 But kinder far to Ferdinand ! though he 
 
 Ne'er nurs'd, nor flroak'd, nor fed, nor fondled thee ! 
 
 In our lime-grove I lurk'd behind a bum, 
 
 And faw the lack-beard kifs that down-like hand ; 
 
 I could have claw'd his lips off, had I dar'd ! 
 
 But now, from Profper's magick-pow'r I'm free ; 
 
 Him and my hated rival laugh to fcorn ; 
 
 Here have thee, and will make thee ftrait my own '. 
 
 MIRANDA.
 
 54 THE VIRGIN QJJEEN. 
 
 MIRANDA. 
 
 O, Ferdinand ! my love ! where haft thou flray'd? 
 Hafle, and deliver me from this vile thrall ! 
 
 CALIBAN. 
 'Twere death, mould Ferd'nand interrupt me now ! 
 Though I feem'd fearful late, and fhunn'd his fword, 
 'Twas but in craft, to compafs what hath happ'd j 
 Then flint this din, aud let thine eyes foft beam ; 
 Nor fcorn, nor flout, for I'm not fmooth as he ! 
 In beauty what I lack I have in flrength ; 
 More needful, to protect and get thee food ! 
 I'll fetch thee, miftrefs ! fweet birds from the grove ; 
 Gather th'em purpled grape for thy repafl ; 
 And weave a flow'ry garland, thee to crown 
 Queen of this unknown clime and me, for aye ! .. 
 Give me the honey of thy lips in lieu, 
 , And let me clip thee ! 
 
 MIRANDA. 
 Monfter ! fland aloof ! 
 
 I feel ftrange courage, and unufual flrength ; 
 Nor longer fear thee or thy brutal force ! 
 A heavenly infpiration doth affure 
 No ill fhall 'gainft a fpotlefs maid prevail ! 
 The Lybian lion at my feet would crouch, 
 Tho' hunger-driv'n, if what I've read be true j 
 Nor murkieft fiends, nor thou, more dreadful yet, 
 Can foil or harm troth-plighted, clear virginity ! 
 
 The laft fpeech from Caliban reminds one of 
 
 the witch's fon and Florimell, in The Faerie Queene* 
 
 of 
 
 * Tbt Faerie >ueene. This is the true orthography of Shakfpeare's 
 time. See the earlieft editions of that delightful Poem, 4to. 1590, and 
 1596 ; in the fectr.d ftanza of which we read, net Virginn, but Virgin. 
 
 ' Helpt
 
 THE VIRGIN QjJEEN. 55 
 
 of Spenfer ; whom we know Shakfpeare admired, 
 and from whom it is evidently copied : Miranda's 
 reply, if it be not Shakfpeare's writing, was pro- 
 bably founded on a fublime paffage in Milton's 
 Majk at Ludlow Cajtle, 
 
 And here muft I conclude thefe extracts; 
 being 
 
 forbid 
 
 " To tell the fecrets of the prifon-houjej* 
 
 wherein the forcerefs Hyrca, and the fpirit of Sy- 
 corax, aflemble the unhappy voyagers, &c. no, 
 
 " this infernal blazon mufi not be /" 
 
 Whether or not the entire play of The Virgin 
 Queen, will ever be made publick, I do not know ; 
 nor, if it be not Shakfpeare's, will, I fuppofe, 
 any body care ! 
 
 F. G. WALDRON. 
 
 January 28, 1796. 
 
 " Helpe then, O holy virgin chiefe of nyne." 159* 
 ' Helpe then, 6 holy Virgin chiefe of nine." 1596. 
 
 In the " Dttd of Truft to John Hunyngc," we read The Virginn QHtne ; it 
 might as well have been, in the true cockney ftyle, 77* Witrginn Qutan. 
 
 The premature ufe of the word Vitvut, in the fenfe afiigned to it in 
 " Viewe o my Mafterre Irelands houfe," w ill, 1 believe, fhortly be dif- 
 cuired, with other congenial topicks, by a much abler pen than mine 1 | 
 when, if I miftake not, it will be inconteftibly proved, that the ortho- 
 graphy of even the name Shakspe are, in the prete ruled autographs of the 
 Poet hirafelf, in Mr. Ireland's volume, is fthjoluttty and undeniably wrong !
 
 ERRATA. 
 
 By a cafual omirTion in page 10, an expreflion in the parage 
 relating to the hand-writing and ngnature of the Earl of South** J 
 ampton's letter, erroneoufly applies to Shakfpeare's letter to the 
 Earl. The reader is rcquefted, therefore, to infert the few 
 words printed below in Italicks, that the paflagc may ftand 
 thus ; 
 
 The fcrawl of the Fart's att/kver to this fublime and bloom- 
 ing letter, &c. 
 
 In p. 32, line 1, for, there's the queftion, read, there's a 
 queflion. 
 
 Idem, line 20, for orderd, read ordered. 
 
 In p. 40, inftead of, For a royal Protejlant, &c. read, For a 
 royal Papift to marry a Proteftant, as in the cafe of Henrietta 
 Maria of France, and our king Charles the fir ft, required st 
 difpenfation, &c. 
 
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