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    Ill make my mind up to two months— -and theft If thou return ' st before the time , thou know ' st It will be usury of happiness \ Thou'lt stay two months !— -Two months is a long time ! Edward . I tell thee but a month ! Marian . I'll not believe it :

    For , if I should , and thou beyond should st stay , Each hour beyond will be another month : So , for my two months , may I pine two score * I Nay , for two months I will not look for thee ! ' * Act 1 , Scene 2 . The passages marked in italics , and indeed tht whble 6 F the quotation , closely resemble the winning sweetiiesi * which giVii such a charm to Shakspeare ' s comedies over tho&e of all other Writers . The next is of similar character , and full of i&higiit

    truthfulness . " Edward , Nay , here We'll part—my messmates , girl , will laugh at thee . Marian . Let them ! What ! lose a minute—with an age To come of absence ! I , that would brave the sea To go with thee , heed those the sea doth toss I ^ I'll go with thee e ' en to the water ' s edge ! - - ;

    And then mine eyes shall go along with thee Act F ' 1 , Scend % p < 1 % The following passage , though it does not contain &rtjr * MHf thought , shows the hand of a true dramatist : — ' ' ¦ ¦ ' ' !* r

    " Marian . I cannot light on him , and not a soul I pass'd but I did question !—Where is he ? My brain will burst!—a horrible oppression Hangs on me ; and my senses do discharge More than their proper parts !—I see—I hear—Things that I should not . —Forms are flitting by me ! Voices are in mine ears , as if of things That are—and yet I know are not !—Each step I fear to tumble o ' er the body of Some drowned man 1 There ' s one I—A heap of weeds ! O what wild work do fear and fancy make ! " . ., Act 2 , Scene 2 , p , 29 .

    We have ventured to call in question the tragic pow e * of Mr Knowles in comparison with his productions of a less imperial walk ; let us here give a passage in conclusion " , thA tragic strength of which , if toy single passage could do it , would tend to refute our opinion . Norris , one of a gang of Wreckers , is describing a man about to be executed : ~^ ' * ?

    " Norris . Yet what I tell , thou know ' st 1 What must ii be , j When a reprieve at the last point has kilFd . I knew a man who narrowly escap * d . ' , l j * Tdthirikofwhat he toldme , 6 vettnow f ;< < Makes me breathe thick , and from my crown to my sole ,

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 1, 1837, page 75, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1828/page/28/