"Printers [instead of princes] persecuted him without a cause." See Psalms
cxix:161.

=The Murderers' Bible= (1801)--So called from an error in the sixteenth
verse of the Epistle of Jude, the word "murderers" being used instead of
"murmurers."

=The Caxton Memorial Bible= (1877)--Wholly printed and bound in twelve
hours, but only one hundred copies struck off.

However much truth there may be in the stories of the dissolute conduct of
Shakespeare, there is abundant proof of the fact that the Bible was one of
his favorite books. Indeed, his admiration for the Scriptures carried him
so far that he frequently incorporated Bible sentences in his plays. The
following are examples:

_Bible_--"But though I be rude in speech."--2 Corinthians xi:6.

_Othello_--"Rude am I in speech."

_Bible_--"To consume thine eyes and to grieve thine heart."--1 Samuel
ii:33.

_Macbeth_--"Shew his eyes and grieve his heart."

_Bible_--"Look not upon me because I am black; because the sun hath looked
upon me."--Song of Solomon i:6.

_Merchant of Venice_--"Mislike me not for my complexion--the shadowed
livery of the burnished sun."

_Bible_--"I caught him by his beard and smote him and slew him."--1 Samuel
xvii:35.

_Othello_--"I took by the throat the circumcised dog, and smote him."

_Bible_--"Opened Job his mouth and cursed his day; let it not be joined
unto the days of the year; let it not come into the number of
months."--Job.

_Macbeth_--"May this accursed hour stand ay accursed in the calendar."

_Bible_--"What is man that Thou art mindful of him? Thou hast made him a
little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honor.
Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of Thy hands."--Psalms
viii:4; Hebrews ii:6.

_Hamlet_--"What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason; how
infinite in faculties; in form and moving how express and admirable; in
action how like an angel; in apprehension how like a god! The beauty of
the world--the paragon of animals."

_Bible_--"Nicanor lay dead in his harness."--Maccabees xvii:12.

_Macbeth_--"We'll die with harness on our backs."

The Prophecies of Bonaparte.

Remarkable Manuscript Found in the Exiled Emperor's Desk on the
Island of Elba before Waterloo.

That the first Napoleon was exceedingly superstitious is well known. He
was a devout believer in dream warnings, and he was a patron of palmists,
clairvoyants, and astrologers. Like many another