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FROM

SHAKSPEARE;

ADAPTED CHIEFLY

For the Use of Schools, and Young Persons;

WITH

NOTES FROM THE BEST COMMENTATORS

"The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling,

Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven;

And, as imagination bodies forth

The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen

Turns them to shape, and gives to airy nothing
A local habitation, and a name.'

MIDSUMMER-NIGHT'S DREAM.

London:

J. SOUTER, SCHOOL LIBRARY, 131, FLEET-STREET.

1836.

229.

W. Lewis, Printer, Finch-lane, London.

TO

WILLIAM ALEXANDER MACKINNON, Esq.

M.P. FOR LYMINGTON, F.R.S., &c. &c.

THIS SELECTION FROM SHAKSPEARE,

ADAPTED

For the Use of Young Persons,

IS DEDICATED,

WITH SENTIMENTS OF THE GREATEST RESPECT AND ESTEEM,

BY HIS OBEDIENT, HUMBLE SERVANT,

THE EDITOR.

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