Excerpt from The Poems of Shakespeare: With Memoir Mr. Thomas Combe by his will made June 20, 1656, directed his executors to convert all his personal property into money, and to lay it out in the purchase of lands, to be settled on William Combe, the eldest son of John Combe of Allchurch in the county of Worcester, Gent. And his heirs male; re mainder to his two brothers successively. Where, therefore. Our poet's sword has wandered, I have not been able to dis cover. I have taken the trouble to ascertain the ages of Shak speare's friends and relations, and the time of their deaths, be cause we are thus enabled to judge how far the traditions con cerning him which were communicated to Mr. Rowe in the beginning of this century, are worthy of credit. Malone. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.