466
Thoughtless Cruelty 466
Eyes 467
Penny Pieces 468
The Rainbow 469
The Force of Habit 470
Clock Striking 470
Why not do it, Sir, To-day? 471
Home Delights 471
The Coffee Slips 472
The Dessert 473
To a Young Lady, on being too Fond of Music 474
Time Spent in Dress 475
The Fairy 476
Conquest of Prejudice 476
The Great-Grandfather 478
The Spartan Boy 479
Queen Oriana's Dream 480
On a Picture of the Finding of Moses by Pharaoh's Daughter 481
David 483
David in the Cave of Adullam 486

THREE POEMS NOT IN "POETRY FOR CHILDREN"

Summer Friends 488
A Birthday Thought 488
The Boy, the Mother, and the Butterfly 489

PRINCE DORUS 490

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NOTES 499
INDEX 523
INDEX OF FIRST LINES 529

FRONTISPIECE

CHARLES AND MARY LAMB

From the Painting by F.S. Cary, in 1834, now in the National Portrait
Gallery.

TALES FROM SHAKESPEAR

(_Written 1805-1806. First Edition 1807. Text of Second Edition 1809_)

PREFACE

The following Tales are meant to be submitted to the young reader as
an introduction to the study of Shakespear, for which purpose, his
words are used whenever it seemed possible to bring them in; and in
whatever has been added to give them the regular form of a