text: " Since this great critic's day--ay with all his defects and perversities Samuel was a great critic--what a blaze of illumination has been brought to bear on the genius of Shakspeare! Nevertheless all honour to Glorious John! Next comes the famous prologue:-- As when a tree's cut down the secret root Lives under ground and thence new branches shoot; So from old Shakspeare's honour'd dust this day Springs up the buds a new reviving play