CULLED FROM THE WORKS

OF

S HA KES P E A RE,

Compared with Sacred Passages

DRAWN FROM

HOLY WRIT:

BEING A SELECTION

OF RELIGIOUS SENTIMENTS, AND MORAL PRECEPTS, BLENDED IN THE DRAMATIC WORKS, &c. OF OUR IMMORTAF BARD

AND COMPILED FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE BENEVOLENT FUNDS OF THE

THEATRES ROYAL DRURY LANE AND COVENT GARDEN.

LONDON:

CALKIN & BUDD, BOOKSELLERS TO HER MAJESTY,

PALL MALL.

MDCCCXLIII.

J. L. COX AND SONS, PRINTERS, 74 & 75, GREAT QUEEN STREET,

LINCOLN'S-INN FIELDS.

TO THE

PRESIDENT, VICE-PRESIDENTS, COUNCIL,

AND MEMBERS

OF THE

SHAKESPEARE SOCIETY,

FROM WHOSE ZEAL AND ENLIGHTENMENT

The World in general,

AND THE ADMIRERS OF SHAKESPEARE IN PARTICULAR,

CHERISH NEW-BORN HOPES OF DERIVING SOME ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

ILLUSTRATIVE OF THE INTELLECTUAL LIFE,

AND OF THE TIMES (AS CONNECTED WITH THE HISTORY) OF