NUMBER OF SHAKESPEARE'S PLAYS.

We will try another case: You want to remember the number of plays that

Shakespeare wrote. You know it is less than 50; but you wish to remember

the exact number--it was 37. You experiment; you try the varieties of

Inclusion, and among the rest you try Whole and Part; you find in the

first two consonants of the name {M}a{c}beth the figures 37; but if you

did not notice that {M}a{c}beth afforded you the means of always

remembering that the Shakespeare Plays numbered 37, you would try

Exclusion perhaps. If you look upon the attempt to ascribe the

authorship of the Shakespeare Plays to Bacon as a {m}o{ck}ery you would

find in the first two consonants of that word the figures 37 through the

operation of Exclusion; and if you recollect that the character of

Shylock was played with great success at Old Drury, February 17, 1741,

by Charles {M}a{c}lin, you would find in the first two consonants of his

name the figures 37 through Concurrence.

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