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Preface to Shakespeare

by Samuel Johnson

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Act IV Scene VIII. (Iv. Iii. 4-5.)

First here’s young Mr. Rash, &c.

This enumeration of the inhabitants of the prison affords a very striking view of the practices predominant in Shakespeare’s age. Besides those whose follies are common to all times, we have four fighting men and a traveller. It is not unlikely that the originals of these pictures were then known.

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