The _Dictionary of National Biography_ states that Edward Blount (_fl._ 1588-1632), the stationer, has been credited on doubtful grounds with the authorship of the very curious _Hospitall of Incvrable Fooles: Erected in English, as neer the first Italian Modell and platforme as the vnskilful hand of an ignorant Architect could deuise. Printed by Edm. Bollifant for Edward Blount_, 1600. _TO MY VERY GOOD FRIEND, MR. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE_ _It’s not because I know that you Are really what the World has found you, That I collect and tell anew The tributes that have gathered round you. Not moved to tread the lofty ways Of those great souls who turned their powers, As duty-bounden, to your praise, Weave I this little wreath of flowers._ _You have, I know, a “myriad mind,” A “honey tongue” to tell a story; You left poor “panting Time” behind, (See Johnson) in the race for glory— ’Tis true. But when all’s said and done, With thought and rhetoric impassioned, You’ve been, and are, a Friend to one Whose mind is not supremely fashioned._ INDEX Addison, Joseph. _Cato_, 18, 23. Compared with Shakespeare, 18. His contemporary fame, 22. _Lines_ to. By William Somervile, and by John Hughes, 23. _The Spectator_ (No. 45), 278; (No. 592), 84. Voltaire’s opinion of, 18. Akenside, Mark. _An Inscription_, 105. _The Remonstrance of Shakespeare_, 284. _Among My Books._ By James Russell Lowell, 174, 266. _Appreciations, with an Essay on Style._ By Walter Pater, 193. _Argalus and Parthenia._ By Francis Quarles. Possible allusion to Shakespeare in, 5 _n._ Armstrong, John. _Of the Versification of English Tragedy_, 100. _Of the Dramatic Unities_, 100. Arnold, Matthew. _Essays in Criticism_, 195. _Heine’s Grave_, 265. His Sonnet on Shakespeare, 29, 169. His edition of Wordsworth’s _Poems_, 195. _Art of English Poetry._ By Edward Bysshe, 26 _n._ _At the Mermaid._ By Robert Browning, 31. _Autumn Vision, An._ By A. C. Swinburne, 201. B., A. _Covent Garden Drollery_, 69. _Bab Ballads._ By W. S. Gilbert, 318. Bacon, Francis, Lord Verulam, 145. Compared with Shakespeare, 168, 316. His supposed authorship of Shakespeare’s _Works_, v, 326. Bancroft, Thomas. _To Shakespeare_, from _Two Bookes of Epigrammes and Epitaphs_, 57. Barnfield, Richard. _A Remembrance of some English Poets_, from _Poems in Divers Humors_, 36. Basse, William. _On Mr. William Shakespeare_, 40. _Battaile of Agincourt, The._ By Michael Drayton, 48. Baynes, Thomas Spencer. Article on “Shakespeare” in _Encyclopædia Britannica_, 207. Beaumont, Francis, 40, 42, 80. Beddoes, T. L. _Lines written in Switzerland_, 258. Betterton, Thomas, seen by Samuel Pepys as Macbeth, 63.