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"To Thee do I commend my watchful soul,
Ere I let fall the windows of mine eyes:
Sleeping and waking, O, defend me still!"

RICHARD III. v. 3.

"Now God be praised, that to believing souls
Gives light in darkness, comfort in despair!"

2 HENRY VI. ii. 1.

Many, very many such passages appear in his works: whereupon we ask this simple question:-Can there be named any other general dramatist that ever lived, who has combined so many religious and moral sentences in his works as Shakespeare has?

We feel convinced that none other such can be named; and that the world, who know him by his works, will admit that his character may be most justly summed up in the ever-memorable words of Hamlet, that

"He was a man, take him for all in all,
We shall not look upon his like again."

HAMLET, i. 2.

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