214. Richard Farmer, Shakespeare's lack of classical learning 1767

From An Essay on the Learning of Shakespeare (Cambridge, 1767) ; this text from ‘The Second Edition, with Large Corrections’ (1767). In the copy which Farmer presented to him, now in the Bodleian, Malone has written ‘The first edition was published at London in Jan^Y 1767. It was written in the preceding year, and printed at Cambridge in Oct^r 1766, as the Author told me’.