THE

PLAYS

OF

WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE.

IN TWENTY-ONE VOLUMES.

WITH

THE CORRECTIONS AND ILLUSTRATIONS

OF

VARIOUS COMMENTATORS.

TO WHICH ARE ADDED,

NOTES,

BY

SAMUEL JOHNSON AND GEORGE STEEVENS.

REVISED AND AUGMENTED

BY ISAAC REED,

WITH A GLOSSARIAL INDEX.

THE SIXTH EDITION.

ΤΗΣ ΦΥΣΕΩΣ ΓΡΑΜΜΑΤΕΥΣ ΗΝ, ΤΟΝ ΚΑΛΑΜΟΝ ΑΠΟΒΡΕΧΩΝ ΕΙΣ ΝΟΥΝ.

Vet. Auct. apud Suidam.

Time, which is continually washing away the dissoluble Fabricks of other

Poets, passes without Injury by the Adamant of SHAKSPEARE.

Dr. Johnson's Preface.

MULTA DIES, VARIUSQUE LABOR MUTABILIS ÆVI

RETULIT IN MELIUS, MULTOS ALTERNA REVISENS

LUSIT, ET IN SOLIDO RURSUS FORTUNA LOCAVIT.

Virgil.

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