THE

PLAYS

OF

WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE.

VOLUME THE FIRST.

CONTAINING

PROLEGOMENA, &c.

Shakespeare's Autograph, if it had been arritten on Paper, would have appeared thus.

THE

PLAYS

OF

WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE.

WITH THE

CORRECTIONS AND ILLUSTRATIONS

OF

VARIOUS COMMENTATORS.

TO WHICH ARE ADDED,

NOTES

BY

SAMUEL JOHNSON AND GEORGE STEEVENS.

A NEW EDITION.

REVISED AND AUGMENTED

(WITH A GLOSSARIAL INDEX),

BY THE EDITOR OF DODSLEY'S COLLECTION OF

OLD PLAYS.

ΤΗΣ ΦΥΣΕΩΣ ΓΡΑΜΜΑΤΕΥΣ ΗΝ, ΤΟΝ ΚΑΛΑΜΟΝ

ΑΠΟΒΡΕΧΩΝ ΕΙΣ ΝΟΥΝ.

(

Vet. Auft. apud. Suidam.

MULTA DIES, VARIUSQUE LABOR MUTABILIS ÆVI
RETULIT IN MELIUS, MULTOS ALTERNA REVISENS
LUSIT, ET IN SOLIDO RURSUS FORTUNA LOCAVIT.

Virgil.

BASIL:

Printed and fold by J. J. TOURNEISEN.

M. DECCC.

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