We were encounter'd by a mighty rock (i. 1.101)

MERES'S MENTION OF THE PLAY. -- The passage as given in our ed.
of M. N. D. p. 9 was copied from one of the many reprints in the stand-
ard editions of Shakespeare (we do not remember what one), and differs
in some little points from the original, of which a lithographic fac-simile
appears in Halliwell's notes on the present play. We append it as it
reads there, with some of the additional paragraphs:

"As the Greeke tongue is made famous and eloquent by Homer, He-
siod, Euripedes, Aeschilus, Sophocles, Pindarus000, Phocylides and Aristoph-
anes; and the Latine tongue by Virgill, Omid, Horace, Silius Italicus,
Lucanus, Lucretius, Ausonius and Claudianus: so the English tongue is
mightily enriched, and gorgeouslie inuested in rare ornaments and re-
splendent abiliments by sir Philip Sidney, Spencer, Daniel, Drayton,
Warner, Shakespeare, Marlow and Chapman.

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