The LONDON MAGAZINE:

Or, GENTLEMAN's Monthly Intelligencer.

For JULY, 1752.

To be Continued. (Price Six Pence each Month.) .7.

Containing, (Greater Variety, and more in Quantity, than any Monthly Book of the fame Price.)

I. An Account of Shakespear's Romeo and

Juliet, with Extracts from it.

II. Phalaris the Tyrant's Letter to the Phy-
fician Polycletus.

III. Polycletus's excellent Anfwer, being a
Defence of Liberty against Tyranny, &c.
IV. Unreasonablenefs of human Pride.
V. Remarks on the Effay on Spirit.
VI. The JOURNAL of a Learned and Poli-
tical CLUB, &c. continued: Containing
the SPEECHES of A. Bæculonius, C. Li-
vius Salinator, and C. Licinius Nerva,
in the DEBATE on the Army.

VII. Abstract of Lord Bolingbroke's Reflex-
ions concerning innate Principles.
VIII. Remarks upon the late Essays on the
Characterifticks.

IX. A Defcription of SHROPSHIRE..
X. More Extracts from Voltaire.

XI. A Summary of the most important Af-
fairs in the laft Seffion of Parliament,
continued.

XII. Miscellaneous Obfervations by the Mar. quis of Halifax.

XIII. Remarkable Story of a Gentleman
walking in his Sleep.

XIV. Marriage recommended," and the
Means of making it happy.

With a Beautiful MAP of SHROPSHIRE, and the HEAD of SHAKESPEAR,

finely engraved.

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303, 304
305

306

Remarkable ftory of a gentleman walking in his fleep

323

Remarks on Mr. Brown's late effays on the Characteristicks

323, G. Marriage recommended, and the means of making it happy 326 Further remarks and experiments in relation to lightning and electricity 327

339

POETRY. To the Rt. Hon. John earl of Orrery

328 To Sir Peter Warren, knight of the Bath, on his arrival in Ireland 329 The Mifs and the butterfly, a fable ibid On the death of a friend

330

To a young lady, on a favourite dog. supposed to be poisoned

To a lady with a hare

ibid

331

Epitaph on Dr. John Smith, late phyfician at Durham

ibid.

Advice to K. C. on a late melancholy oc-
cafion
Love, an ode

332 ibid.

The MONTHLY CHRONOLOGER 333 A late inftance of a living wife being burnt with her dead husband, in the East-Indies

ibid.

Of the French armies
That a trading industrious people may be
a warlike people
SPEECH of C. Livius Salinator, on the.
other fide
SPEECH of C. Licinius Nerva, agreeing
with the laft
A letter of the tyrant Phalaris, to Poly-
cletus a phyfician
310
Polycletus's excellent answer, being a de-
fence of liberty against tyranny, &c.
ibid. A.
Remarks on the effay on fpirit 311
Mifcellaneous obfervations, by George Sa-
vile, marquis of Halifax
313, 314
Abstract of lord Bolingbroke's reflexions
concerning innate moral principles 315
A fummary of the most important affairs
in the last feffion of parliament 317-
322
Of the bill for regulating pawnbrokers
and brokers
317, G.
Of the bill for changing the punishment
of felony in certain cafes, to confine-
ment and hard labour in the dock
yards
319

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LONDON MAGAZINE.

JULY, 1752.

In our Magazine for left Year, p. 150,
151, we gave an Account of the Life of
that famous dramatick Writer, Mr. WIL-
LIAM SHAKESPEAR, with a cu-
rious Print of the Monument erected to bis
Memory in Weftminster-Abbey. And as
we bave bere prefented our Readers with a
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"beautiful HEAD of that great Poet, we'
thought proper to entertain them with fome
Account of, and Extralts from, bis celebra-
ted Play of ROMEO and JULIET.

HE play of Romeo and
Juliet has ever been ac-
counted among the best

and true ftory, into a fiction about Marius and Sylla. The fingular elegance and fimplicity of almost every fcene of this play, especially in the many places where the paffion of love with its attendant difficulties are most inimitably painted, must render the following scenes, extracted from it, agreeable to every reader, and above all to those who have felt the force of these animating, tender and delicate affections.

of this great author's L

works; the fable of it B is built on a real tragedy, that happened about the beginning of the 14th century. The ftory, with all its circumftances, is given us by the Italian novelist Bandello, as alfo by Girolome da Corte in his hiftory of Verona: The young lover, as this hiftorian relates, was called C Romeo Montecchi, and the lady, Juliet Capello. Capt. Breval, in his travels, tells us, that, when he was at Verona, he was fhewn an old building (converted into an houfe for orphans) in which the tomb of thefe unhappy lovers had formerly been broken up, and that he was informed by his guide in all the particulars of their story; and that the caftle of D Montecchio, fituate between Vicenza and Verona, antiently belong'd to the illuftrious house of that name, that was the head of a faction against the Capello's. Our Shakespear has made that quarrel the fubject of his excellent and affecting tragedy; and as his ftory is founded in truth, it will ever have an effect upon the mind, that no fiction, be it ever fo highly wrought, can; this will more amply appear in reading Mr. Otway's alteration of this fine

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ACT I. SCENE II.

LOVE.

OVE is a fmoak rais'd with the fume [eyes, of fighs, Being purg'd, a fire fparkling in lovers Being vex'd, a fea nourish'd with lovers

tears;

What is it elfe? a madness most discreet,
A choaking gall, and a preserving sweet!
SCENE V. On Dreams.

O then I fee queen Mab hath been with
[comes
you.
She is the fairies midwife, and the
In fhape no bigger than an agat-stone
On the fore-finger of an alderman,
Drawn with a team of little atomies,
Athwart mens nofes as they lie afleep:
Her waggon-fpokes made of long spin-
ners legs;

The cover, of the wings of grafhoppers;
The traces, of the smallest spider's web;
The collars, of the moonshine watry

beams;

[film;

Her whip, of cricket's bone; the lash, of
Her waggoner a fmall grey-coated gnat,
Not half fo big as a round little worm,
Prickt from the lazy finger of a maid.
Her chariot is an empty hazel-nut,
Made by the joyner fquirrel, or old grub,

Time out of mind the fairies coach-
[night,
makers :

And in this ftate fhe gallops night by
Thro
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July, 1752. Fairies, &c. It is more than probable that this is Shakespear's reading; what the criticks Say to the contrary is not conclufrue, for it is, furely, a much worthier office to act as a midwife than for the fame Mab to plat the manes of borfes, and cake foul fluttish bairs.