THE

PLAYS

OF

WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE.

VOLUME THE SECOND.

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PROLEGOMENA, &c.

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AN

ESSAY

VOL. II.

ON

THE LEARNING OF SHAKSPEARE.

BY

RICHARD FARMER, D.D.

MASTER OF EMMANUEL COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE, AND
PRINCIPAL LIBRARIAN OF THAT UNIVERSITY,

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Though our commentaries on the following Plays have been enriched by numerous extracts from this celebrated Effay, the whole of it is here reprinted. I fhall hazard no contradiction relative to the value of its contents, when I add

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