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PREFACE.As the present edition of Shakespeare is unaccompanied by any commentary, a brief notice concerning the text may be thought necessary.Though my first edition of the great dramatist was, on the whole, very favourably received, I could not deny that there was reason for the objection made to it in certain quarters, of my having too timidly adhered to sundry more than questionable readings of the early copies. My second edition, therefore, exhibited a text amended throughout by means of the conjectures of Shakespeare's numerous editors and commentators from Rowe's day to our own; in adopting which, I was careful to distinguish between such corrections as might be considered legitimate, and the wanton alterations of restless ingenuity. No longer an over-cautious editor, I was still anxious not to become an over-bold one; and I constantly bore in mind the admonitory in-