ion from Dryden's Prologue, is omitted by Pope.

16. _Dorastus and Faunia_, the alternative title of Robert Greene's
_Pandosto, or the Triumph of Time_, 1588.

17. Pope omits _tyrannical, cruel, and_ (line 36).

18. _Plutarch._ Rowe's statement that Shakespeare "copied" his Roman
characters from Plutarch is--as it stands--inconsistent with the previous
argument as to his want of learning. His use of North's translation was
not established till the days of Johnson and Farmer.

_Andre Dacier_ (1651-1722) was best known in England by his _Essay on
Satire_, which was included in his edition of Horace (1681, etc.), and by
his edition of the _Poetics_ of Aristotle (1692). The former was used by
Dryden in his _Discourse concerning Satire_, and appeared in English in
1692 and 1695; the latter was translated in 1705. In 1692 he brought out a
prose translation, "with remarks," of the _Oedipus_ and _Electra_ of
Sophocles. Rowe's reference is to Dacier's preface to the latter play, pp.
253, 254. Cf. his _Poetics_, notes to ch. xv., and the _Spectator_, No.
44.

19. _But howsoever_, etc. _Hamlet_, i. 5. 84.

20. _Betterton's_ contemporaries unite in praise of his performance of
Hamlet. Downes has an interesting note in his _Roscius Anglicanus_ showing
how, in the acting of this part, Betterton benefited by Shakespeare's
coaching: "Sir William _Davenant_ (having seen Mr. Taylor, of the Black
Fryars Company, act it; who being instructed by the author, Mr.
Shakespear) taught Mr. Betterton in every particle of it, gained him
esteem and reputation superlative to all other plays" (1789, p. 29). But
cf. the _Rise and Progress of the English Theatre_, appended to Colley
Cibber's _Apology_, 1750, p. 516.

The epilogue for Betterton's "benefit" in 1709 was written by Rowe.
Betterton died in 1710.

_Since I had at first resolv'd ... said of him made good._ This second
criticism of Rymer is also omitted by Pope.

21. _Ten in the hundred_, etc. Reed, Steevens, and Malone have proved
conclusively, if somewhat laboriously, that these wretched verses are not
by Shakespeare. See also Halliwell-Phillips's _Outlines_, i., p. 326. It
may be noted that ten per cent. was the regular rate of interest at this
time.

21. _as engrav'd in the plate._ A poor full-page engraving of the
Stratford monument faces this statement in Rowe's edition.

_He had three daughters._ Rowe is in error. Shakespeare had two daughters,
and a son named Hamnet. Susann