Excerpt from Plutarch's Lives, Vol. 1 of 4: Translated From the Original Greek; With Notes, Historical and Critical; And a Life of Plutarch It is said by those who are not willing to allow Shaks care much learnin that he availed him self o the last-mentione translation; but they seem to ct, that, in order to su port their argu ments 0 kind, it is necessary or them to prove that Plato, too, was translated Into English at the same time; for the celebrated soliloquy, To be, or not to be, is taken, almost verbatim, from that philosopher; et we have never found that Plato was translate in those times. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.