Samuel Johnson [1765], The plays of William Shakespeare, in eight volumes, with the corrections and illustrations of Various Commentators; To which are added notes by Sam. Johnson (Printed for J. and R. Tonson [and] C. Corbet [etc.], London) [word count] [S11001].
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SCENE V.
Changes to the Woods.
Enter a Soldier, seeking Timon.
Sol.
By all description this should be the place.
Who's here? speak, ho.—No answer?—What is this?—
Timon is dead, who hath out-stretch'd his span;
7 note
Some beast read this; here does not live a man.
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Dead, sure, and this his grave; what's on this tomb
I cannot read; the character I'll take with wax;
Our Captain hath in every figure skill,
An ag'd interpreter, tho' young in days;
Before proud Athens he's set down by this,
Who's Fall the mark of his ambition is.
[Exit.
Samuel Johnson [1765], The plays of William Shakespeare, in eight volumes, with the corrections and illustrations of Various Commentators; To which are added notes by Sam. Johnson (Printed for J. and R. Tonson [and] C. Corbet [etc.], London) [word count] [S11001].
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