• I, thus neglecting worldly ends, all dedicated To closeness and the bettering of my mind.

    William Shakespeare: I, thus neglecting worldly ends, all dedicated 
To closeness and the bettering of my mind.
    William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Alexander Pope (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.32