s not uncommon still in some countries.
The Venetian Director Medebach, for whose company many of Goldoni's
Comedies were composed, claimed an exclusive right to them.--TRANS.]

[Footnote 21: _Twelfth Night, or What You Will_--Act iii., scene 2.]

[Footnote 22: _As You Like It_.]

[Footnote 23: In one of the commendatory poems in the first folio
edition:

And on the stage at _half sword parley_ were
Brutus and Cassius.]

[Footnote 24: In the first volume of _Charakteristiken und Kritiken_,
published by my brother and myself.]

[Footnote 25: A contemporary of the poet, the author of the
already-noticed poem, (subscribed I.M.S.), tenderly felt this when he
said:

Yet so to temper passion that our ears
Take pleasure in their pain, and eyes in tears
Both smile and weep.]

[Footnote 26: In Hamlet's directions to the players. Act iii., scene
2.]

[Footnote 27: See Hamlet's praise of Yorick. In _Twelfth Night_,
Viola says:

This fellow is wise enough to play the fool,
And to do that well craves a kind of wit;
He must observe their mood on whom he jests,
The quality of the persons, and the time;
And like the haggard, check at every feather
That comes before his eye. This is a practice
As full of labor as a wise man's art:
For folly that he wisely shows is fit,
But wise men's folly fall'n quite taints their wit.--AUTHOR.

The passages from Shakespeare, in the original work, are given from the
author's masterly translation. We may be allowed, however, to observe that
the last line--

"Doch wozu ist des Weisen Thorheit nutz?"

literally, _Of what use is the folly of the wise?_--does not convey the
exact meaning of Shakespeare.--TRANS.]

[Footnote 28: "Since the little wit that fools have was silenced, the
little foolery that wise men have makes a greater show."--_As You Like
It_, Act I, scene 2.]

[Footnote 29: Charles the Bold, of Burgundy, is known to have
frequently boasted that he wished to rival Hannibal as the greatest
general of all ages. After his defeat at Granson, his fool accompanied
him in his hurried flight, and exclaimed, "Ah, your Grace, they have
for once Hanniballed us!" If the Duke had given an ear to this warning
raillery, he would not so soon afterward have come to a disgraceful
end.]

[Footnote 30: I shall take the opportunity of saying a few words
respecting this species of drama when I come to speak of Ben Jonson.]

[Footnote 31: Here follows, in the