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point out to the Reader the manner in which the Editors have executed the prefent work. It is not a new plan, but it is an approved one; and, they flatter themselves, it will be no impeachment of their candour, that they fairly acknowledge, they have strictly followed an edition formerly published in this place, which has been esteemed equal, if not fuperior, to any published in Britain.

The acts and fcenes are divided and num. bered according to the editions of Pope and Warburton. The paffages which were thought most beautiful by Mr Pope and Mr Warbur-ton, are particularly attended to in this edi

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tion; the beauties obferved by the former be ing marked with a single inverted comma, and those by the latter with a double one.-Befides thefe, the beauties, as regularly felected from each play by Mr Dodd, are pointed out, p. xlix. et feq. in the order of the volumes and plays, with directions to the pages and lines where each of them occur, together with Mr Warburton's general criticism on his plays.

Sufpected paffages or interpolations, upon the authorities of Mr Pope, the Oxford editor, and Mr Warburton, are thrown down to the bottom of the page, with proper marks referring to the places of their infertion.-Some lines in different places are inclosed within hooks or crotchets, as, in Mr Warburton's opinion, foifted into the text by the players, or of fpurious iffue, and noted as fuch at the bottom of the page; and feveral chafms or defects are pointed out by asterisks, with probable conjec, tures for fupplying them.

The Gloffary and Index are extremely copious, free of blunders, and reduced to a ftri&t alphabetical order.

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It will not be expected, that the Editors fhould enter into a difcuffion of the Author's character as a dramatic writer; but they have prefixed Mr Pope's Preface, Mr Rowe's ac count of his life and writings, and Ben Johnfon's poem to his memory, which will answer that purpose better than any thing they could fay on the fubject.

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