Excerpt from Original Memoirs and Historical Accounts of the Families of Shakespeare and Hart: Deduced From an Early Period, and Continued Down to This Present Year 1790Now printed was moft likely purchafed from the author by Malone; and is, I fufpeét, ' the fource whence the latter obtained the additional verfes on Sir Thomas Lucy, now acknowledged to be forgeries. It certainly was the volume from which he derived the long ftory of the crab-tree, as may be feen by comparing the account in the following.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition.

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