2. The Taming of the Shrew. New title, 1,000 new lines added, and extensive revision. 3. The Life and Death of King John. New title, 1,000 new lines including one entire new scene. The dialogue rewritten. 4. The Life of King Henry the Fift. New title, the choruses and two new scenes added. Text nearly doubled in length. 5. The Second part of King Hen. the Sixt. New title, 1,139 new lines, and 2,000 old lines retouched. [The practice of false-dating books of the Elizabethan period was not uncommon, instances of as much as thirty years having been discovered. It has been proved by Mr. A. W. Pollard, of the British Museum; by Mr. W. W. Greg, Librarian of Trinity College, Cambridge; and by Prof. W. J. Neidig, that four of these, viz., "A Midsommer Nights Dreame," and "The Merchant of Venice," both dated 1600, and "King Lear," and "Henry the Fift," both dated 1608, were in fact printed in 1619, three years after Shakespeare's death.] THE THIRTEEN WHICH SEEM NOT TO HAVE BEEN PRINTED BEFORE SHAKESPEARE'S DEATH, although plays of somewhat similar names are registered or in some way referred to, are:-- 1. The Tempest. 2. The First part of King Henry the Sixt. 3. The two Gentlemen of Verona. 4. Measure for Measure. 5. The Comedy of Errours. 6. As you Like it. 7. All is well, that Ends well. 8. Twelfe-Night, or what you will. 9. The Winters Tale. 10. The Life and death of Julius Cæsar. 11. The Tragedy of Macbeth. 12. Anthony and Cleopater. 13. Cymbeline King of Britaine. THE FOUR WHICH SEEM NEITHER TO HAVE BEEN PRINTED NOR REFERRED TO TILL AFTER SHAKESPEARE'S DEATH ARE:-- * 1. The Life of King Henry the Eight. 2. The Tragedy of Coriolanus. 3. Timon of Athens. 4. Othello, the Moore of Venice. Of the above plays, most of those which were printed in Shakespeare's lifetime originally appeared anonymously; indeed, no play bore Shakespeare's name until New Place, Stratford-on-Avon, had been purchased for him and £1,000 given to him in 1597. The first play to bear the name of W. Shakespere was Loves Labors Lost, which appeared in the following year--1598. * Note.--The above very strongly confirms Mrs. Gallup's reading of the Cypher, viz.: that there are twenty-two new plays in the Folio. The Tempest, with Timon of Athens and Henry VIII., seems to be largely concerned with the story of Bacon's fall from his high offices in 1621, and Emile Montégut, writing in the "Revue des Deux Mondes" of August, 1865, says that the Tempest is evidently the author's literary testament. Stratford, to which Shakespeare was sent in 1597, was at that period much farther from London for all practical purposes than Canada is to-day, and Shakespeare did not go there for week ends, but he permanently resided there, only very occasionally visiting London, when he lodged at Silver Street with a hairdresser named Mountjoy.