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TO) TIIE MEMORY OF HIS FRIEND

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WHOSE PROFOUND ANTIQUARIAN LEARNING SO

HAPPILY ILLUSTRATED THESE DRAMAS,

This Edition

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NOTE.

In issuing a Third Edition of this work, the publishers have taken the opportunity of incorporating various emendations left by the late Mr. Singer. The preliminary “Life” also has been improved by the excision of certain references to unauthentic documents which had inadvertently been left in the Second Edition, and a few pages have been devoted to the results of recent criticism on the order of the Plays