_A Treatise on French Verbs._ 8vo., 1580. _A most easie, perfect, and absolute way to learne the Frenche tongue._ 8vo., 1581; and _Phrases Linguæ Latinæ._ 8vo., 1579; the last compiled from the writings of that great Printer, Aldus Manutius. Some of Shakspere's biographers have maintained that he must have been acquainted with Plutarch and other classical writers, because he quotes from their works. Dr. Farmer in his masterly essay on the learning of Shakspere, has shown that the Poet took all his quotations, even to the blunders, from the edition of Plutarch, in English, printed and published by Vautrollier, a year or two before we suppose that Shakspere entered into his service: _Plutarch's Lives, from the French of Amyott, by Sir Tho. North. Licensed._ Folio, 1579. Moreover, Vautrollier, who was a good scholar, appears to have had a great liking for Ovid. He printed _Ovid's Metamorphoses_, _Ovid's Epistles_, and _Ovid's Art of Love_. Now it is a notable fact that although Shakspere, unlike contemporary writers who abound in classical allusions, scarcely ever mentions a Latin poet, and still more seldom a Greek poet, yet he quotes Ovid several times: As Ovid, be an outcast quite abjured. _Taming of the Shrew_, i, 1. _Tit._ Lucius, what book is that she tosseth so? _Luc._ Grandsire, 'tis Ovid's Metamorphoses. _Titus_, iv, 1. I am here with thee and thy goats as the most capricious poet, honest Ovid was among the Goths. _As You Like It_, iii, 3. Ovidius Naso was the man. _Love's Labour Lost_, iv, 2. Of _Cicero's Oration_ Vautrollier issued several editions, and had the privilege 'ad imprimendum solum' granted him; and to this work also, on at least two occasions, Shakspere refers: Hath read to thee Sweet poetry and Tully's Orator. _Titus_, iv, 1. Sweet Tully. _2 Henry VI_, iv, 1. The fact to be noted with reference to these classical quotations is this: Shakspere quotes those Latin authors, and those only, of which Vautrollier had a 'license'; and makes no reference to other and popular writers, such as Virgil, Pliny, Aurelius, and Terence, editions of whose works Vautrollier was not allowed to issue, but all of which, and especially the last, were great favorites in the sixteenth century, as is shown by the numerous editions which issued from the presses of Vautrollier's fellow-craftsmen.