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PREFACE
In preparing the text of this volume, we have in general followed the
same rules as in the so-called 'Cambridge Shakespeare7: rules which we
adopted originally after much deliberation, and of which the soundness
has been confirmed by our subsequent experience.
As however the two editions differ in plan, the one recording in foot-
notes all the various readings and conjectural emendations, the other
giving only the text, we have in some particulars modified our rules.
For instance, in cases where the text of the earliest editions is
manifestly faulty, but where it is impossible to decide with confidence
which, if any, of several suggested emendations is right, we have in the
iCambridge Shakespeare' left the original reading in our text, mentioning
in our notes all the proposed alterations: in this edition, we have sub-
stituted in the text the emendation which seemed most probable, or in
cases of absolute equality, the earliest suggested. But the whole number
of such variations between the texts of the two editions is very small.
In this volume, whenever the original text has been corrupted in
such a way as to affect the sense, no admissible emendation having been
proposed, or whenever a lacuna occurs too great to be filled up with any
approach to certainty by conjecture, we have marked the passage with an
obelus (f).