TALES FROM SHAKESPEARE

CHARLES AND MARY LAMB

PREFACE

The following Tales are meant to be submitted to the young reader as

an introduction to the study of Shakespeare, for which purpose his

words are used whenever it seemed possible to bring them in; and in

whatever has been added to give them the regular form of a connected

story, diligent are has been taken to select such words as might least

interrupt the effect of the beautiful English tongue in which he wrote:

therefore, words introduced into our language since his time have