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"Printers [instead of princes] persecuted him without a cause." See Psalms cxix:161. =The Murderers' Bible= (1801)--So called from an error in the sixteenth verse of the Epistle of Jude, the word "murderers" being used instead of "murmurers." =The Caxton Memorial Bible= (1877)--Wholly printed and bound in twelve hours, but only one hundred copies struck off. However much truth there may be in the stories of the dissolute conduct of Shakespeare, there is abundant proof of the fact that the Bible was one of his favorite books. Indeed, his admiration for the Scriptures carried him so far that he frequently incorporated Bible sentences in his plays. The following are examples: _Bible_--"But though I be rude in speech."--2 Corinthians xi:6. _Othello_--"Rude am I in speech." _Bible_--"To consume thine eyes and to grieve thine heart."--1 Samuel ii:33. _Macbeth_--"Shew his eyes and grieve his heart." _Bible_--"Look not upon me because I am black; because the sun hath looked upon me."--Song of Solomon i:6. _Merchant of Venice_--"Mislike me not for my complexion--the shadowed livery of the burnished sun." _Bible_--"I caught him by his beard and smote him and slew him."--1 Samuel xvii:35. _Othello_--"I took by the throat the circumcised dog, and smote him." _Bible_--"Opened Job his mouth and cursed his day; let it not be joined unto the days of the year; let it not come into the number of months."--Job. _Macbeth_--"May this accursed hour stand ay accursed in the calendar." _Bible_--"What is man that Thou art mindful of him? Thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honor. Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of Thy hands."--Psalms viii:4; Hebrews ii:6. _Hamlet_--"What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason; how infinite in faculties; in form and moving how express and admirable; in action how like an angel; in apprehension how like a god! The beauty of the world--the paragon of animals." _Bible_--"Nicanor lay dead in his harness."--Maccabees xvii:12. _Macbeth_--"We'll die with harness on our backs." The Prophecies of Bonaparte. Remarkable Manuscript Found in the Exiled Emperor's Desk on the Island of Elba before Waterloo. That the first Napoleon was exceedingly superstitious is well known. He was a devout believer in dream warnings, and he was a patron of palmists, clairvoyants, and astrologers. Like many another
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