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Title: [unknown]
Author: Shakespeare, William
Attribution: Mackbeth Act 1 Sc. the L.
Date(s): 1606 ?
Manuscript: Lt 12
Contents: Quotation from Act 1 Scene 7 of Shakespeare's play "Macbeth" on justice
finding out the wrong-doer, here among a collection of "Latin proverbs with
English ones that answer to them".
Title: Death
Author: Shakespeare, William
Date(s): 1604 ?
Manuscript: Lt 15
Contents: Attitudes to death and its universality, incorporating Claudio's speech on
the terrors of death from Shakepeare's play "Measure for Measure", III.1; the
surrounding lines unidentified.
Title: Futurity
Author: Shakespeare, William
Date(s): 1600 ?
Manuscript: Lt 15
Contents: Abridgement of Hamlet's soliloquy from Shakespeare's play "Hamlet", III.1,
debating suicide and whether death is preferable to life
Title: Greatnes
Author: Shakespeare, William
Date(s): 1613
Manuscript: Lt 15
Contents: Cardinal Wolsey's speech on his rise and fall from Shakespeare's play "Henry
VIII", III.2. Annotated at head, "Cato died like a fool, only fearing such a
fellow as Caesar's smile".
Title: [unknown]
Author: Shakespeare, William
Date(s): 1604
Manuscript: Lt 48
Contents: On the impossibility of even the greatest or most virtuous person escaping
malicious slander; extract from Shakespeare's play "Measure for Measure",
III.2.
Title: [unknown]
Author: Shakespeare, William
Date(s): 1604
Manuscript: Lt 48
Contents: Assertion that a ruler must practise the highest standards of virtuous
personal behaviour and self-examination; extract from Shakespeare's play
"Measure for Measure", III.2.
Title: [unknown]
Author: Shakespeare, William
Date(s): 1604
Manuscript: Lt 48
Contents: On the injustice of human life, in which the sinful are often rewarded and
the virtuous punished; crossed through. Extract from Shakespeare's play
"Measure for Measure", II.1.
Title: The scene in Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. The ghost & Hamlet.
Author: Shakespeare, William
Date(s): 1601 ?
Manuscript: Lt 24
Contents: Part of Shakespeare's play "Hamlet," I.5, somewhat abridged, in which the
ghost reveals the nature of his death to Hamlet and urges revenge. At end,
"Andover, 4th 9th mo. 1730"
Title: Futurity
Author: Shakespeare, William
Attribution: Shak. Hamlet
Date(s): 1600
Manuscript: Lt 80
Contents: Hamlet's soliloquy from Shakespeare's play "Hamlet", III.1, debating suicide and whether death is preferable to life; slighty inaccurate transcription.