"A greater lamp than that bright eye of heaven," &c. --_Tamb_. vol. i. p.154. --"the golden eye of heaven." --_Tamb_. vol. i. p.155. "Wherein are rocks of pearl that shine as bright," &c. --_Tamb_. vol. i. p.177. (5) "I'll have them fly to India for gold," &c. --_Faustus_, vol. ii. p. 123. (6) "And show your pleasure to the Persian As fits the legate of the stately Turk." --_Tamb_. vol. i. p.87. {226} (7) "_Wagner_. Come hither, sirha! Boy! _Clown_. Boy! O disgrace to my person!" &c. --_Faustus_, vol. ii, p. 131. Leaving the question in this position for the present, I shall be glad of such information from any of your readers as may tend to throw a light on the date of Shakspeare's _Taming of the Shrew_. I find Mr. Collier's opinion expressed in the following words:-- "The great probability is that _Hamlet_ was written at the earliest in 1601, and the _Taming of the Shrew_ perhaps came from the pen of its author not very long afterwards." I am anxious to ascertain whether I am acquainted with all the circumstances on which the above opinion is founded; as those which I can, at this moment, recall, are to my mind hardly sufficiently conclusive. Rejecting the supposed allusion to Heywood's _Woman Kill'd with Kindness_, which I see, by a note, Mr. Collier gives up as untenable ground, the facts, I believe, remain as follows:-- First: _The Taming of the Shrew_ was not mentioned by Meres in 1598, whereupon it is assumed that "had it been written, he could scarcely have failed to mention it." And,