Shakespeare and Precious Stones
Public Library an exhibition of Shakespearean books, including all the early editions of the quartos; the various editions of the folios; the works of contemporaneous authors whom Shakespeare had consulted; and also the early works that mention Shakespeare, or cite from his plays or poems, including Greene's "Groat's Worth of Wit," published in 1592 by Henry Chettle and containing the earliest printed allusion to Shakespeare under the name of "Shake-scene."
One of the contemporary books containing citations from Shakespeare's works, shown at the New York Public Library, is "The Woman Hater," by Francis Beaumont (?I58s-i6i5 or 1616), printed in 1607.11 The citation, from Hamlet, Act i, sc. 5,12 is apropos of the disappearance of a "fish head." It is put into the mouths of two of the characters, as follows:
Lazaretto. Speak, I am bound to hear.
Count. So art thou to revenge when thou shalt hear.
In the spacious hall of the beautiful Hispanic Museum in New York City there has recently been displayed, in commemoration of the ter-
11 "The Woman Hater, as it hath beene lately acted by the children of Paules, London, printed and to be sold by John Hodgers in Paules Church-yard, 1607."
12 First Folio, p. 257, col. B, lines 15, 16.
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