Ulrici **** says (quoting Klein) that the author of "Romeo and Juliet" must have read "Hadriana," a tragedy by an Italian named Groto, and Mr. Grant White points out that Iago's speech, "Who steals my purse, steals trash," etc., is a perfect paraphrase of a stanza in Berni's "Orlando Innamorato," of which poem, says Mr. White, to this day (1864) there is no English version. * A Von Beumont. Allgemeine Zeitung, Oct. 21, 1870. ** Karl Elze on Shakespeare, p. 296. London. Macmillan & Co. 1874. *** Memoir. Works, p. xxi. **** Vol. I, p. 253. Mr. White furnishes a translation of {222}the stanza of Berni, which is certainly startingly like.1 And yet Mr. White clings to his Stratford school, where "Beeston" told Aubrey that William Shakespeare was once a school-master. Perhaps Mr. White refuses to be converted because he has discovered that Dr. Farmer discovered that, when, in the "Taming of the Shrew," Tranio quotes Terence, "he is inaccurate, and gives the passage, not as it appears in the text of the Latin dramatist, but as it is misquoted in the Latin grammar of William Lily; a school-book in common use among our forefathers when William Shakespeare was a boy." ** But (though somebody has suggested that William might have risen to be "head boy" at Stratford grammar school; and been, in that capacity, intrusted with hearing the lessons of the smaller boys, whence the school-master story may have arisen), the Beestou story has been rejected by all the commentators with a unanimity of which, we believe, it is the only instance, in case of a Shakespearean detail. So far as we know, there has been but one effort to prove that William Shakespeare was a university man. *** * Ante, p. 64, note. ** Id. p. xx. *** "Some Shakespearean and Spenserian MSS.," "American Whig Review," December, 1851, But if, instead of going to school, or operating a theater, William had passed his days as a journeyman printer, he could hardly have been more at home to the mysteries of that craft. Mr. Blades, a practical printer, has found in the Works so many terms, technical to and employed in the exact sense of the composing and press-rooms, that they seriously add to {223}the enumeration of possible Shakesperean vocations. For example:= `````"Behold, my Lords, ```Although the print be little, the whole matter `````And copy of the father, ```The very mould and frame of hand, nail, finger."= Witness, also, the following:= ````"You are but as a form in wax, by him imprinted. `````--_Midsummer-Night's Dream, I, 1._= ````"His heart, with your print impressed. `````--_Lovés Labours Lost, II, 1._=