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WILL: SHAKE SPEAR.

ки

WORKS

OF

SHAKESPEAR

IN

NINE VOLUME S.

WITH

A GLOSSARY.

Carefully printed from the Oxford Edition in
Quarto, 1744.

---- Nil ortum tale.·

HOR.

LONDON:

Printed for J. and P. Knapton, S. Birt, T. Longman
and T. Shewell, H. Lintott, C. Hitch, J. Brindley,
J. and R. Tonfon and S. Draper, R. Wel-
lington, E. New, and B. Dod.

MDCCXLVIII,

Koninklijke Bibliotheck te's Hage.

THE

PREFACE.

W

HAT the Publick is here to expec is a true and correct Edition of Shakespear's works cleared from the corruptions with which they bave hitherto abounded. One of the great Admirers of this incomparable Author bath made it the amusement of his leisure hours for many years paft to look over his writings with a careful eye, to note the obfcurities and abfurdities introduced into the text, and according to the best of his judgment to restore the genuine fenfe and purity of it. In this be propofed nothing to himself but his private fatisfaction in making his own copy as perfect as he could: but as the emendations A 2

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