{29} The case of Dante has been recently alluded to, as if it were one of exhumation. But despite the efforts of the Florentines to recover the remains of their great poet, they still rest at Ravenna, in the grave in which they were deposited immediately after his death. {31} _Traditionary Anecdotes of Shakespeare_. 1883, p. 11. {32} _Outlines of the Life of Shakespeare_. 3rd edition, 1883, p. 223. {33} _Life Portraits of Shakespeare_. 1864, p. 10. {34} _Shakespeare_: _The Man and The Book_. _Part I_, p. 79. {35} As to this, see an article contributed by me to _The Antiquary_ for September, 1880: also the _Shakespeare Jahrbuch_, vol. x, 1875, for Dr. Schaafhausen’s views. {37} There is no engraving by “Dunbar”: that name was Friswell’s mistake for Dunkarton. Boaden’s “absolute fac-simile” and “no difference whatever,” (_Inquiry_, 1. p., page 137) are expressions not borne out by the engravings. My old friend, the Rev. Charles Evans, Rector of Solihull, who possesses the almost unrivalled Marsh Collection of Engraved Portraits of Shakespeare, at my request compared Cooper’s engraving of the Croker portrait with those by Dunkarton, Earlom, and Turner, of the Janssen: and he writes: “In the Cooper the face is peaked, the beard more pointed, and the ruff different in the points.” After all, such differences may well be the creation of the engravers. I would fain know where the Croker portrait now is; and also that which belonged to the late Dr. Turton, Bishop of Ely. {39} _A Study of Shakespeare’s Portraits_. 1876, p. 23. {45} This is exactly as it stands upon the existing gravestone, not as it is reproduced by the writer in the _Atlantic Monthly_: the like as to the two lines of the epitaph in No. 6. The manuscript of Dowdall, referred to on p. 31 _ante_, is unfortunately modernized in _Traditionary Anecdotes_. He has, indeed ‘friend,’ and ‘these,’ as in the pamphlet version, but also ‘digg,’ and ‘inclosed.’ Dowdall, however, was a very inaccurate copyist. See fac-simile in Mr. J. O. Halliwell’s Folio Shakespeare, vol. i, inserted between pp. 78 and 79. The Dowdall manuscript does not give the epitaph in capitals, except the initials.