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Bethune, Burton, the comedian, and other well-known authors, actors, and divines. The black-letter Chaucer Speght's edition, folio, London, 1598, the identical copy spoken of by Elia in his letter to Ainsworth, the novelist was knocked down to Burton for twenty-five dollars.
There was once in existence a copy of Speght's edition of Chaucer, 1598, with manuscript notes by Gabriel Harvey, one of those notes being in the following terms: "The younger sort take much delight in Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis, but his Lucrece and his tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke, have it in them to please the wiser sort."
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