PROM

SHAKSPEARE;

ADAPTED CHIEFLY

for the Use of Schools, and Young Persons ;

WITH

NOTES FROM THE BEST COMMENTATORS

“ The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling,

Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven;
And, as imagination bodies forth
The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen
Turns them to shape, and gives to airy nothing
A local habitation, and a name."

MIDSUMMER-NIGHT'S DREAM.

London:

J. SOUTER, SCHOOL LIBRARY, 131, FLEET-STREET.

1836.

W. Lewis, Printer, Finch-lane, London.

TO

WILLIAM ALEXANDER MACKINNON, Esq.

M.P. FOR LYMINGTON, F.R.S., &c. &c.

THIS SELECTION FROM SHAKSPEARE,

ADAPTED

For the Use of Young Persons,

IS DEDICATED,

WITH SENTIMENTS OF THE GREATEST RESPECT AND ESTEEM,

BY HIS OBEDIENT, HUMBLE SERVANT,

THE EDITOR.