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present adoption, if primitive accuracy be preferable to modern variations—as in Spencer, where it is written, and explained in the Glossary, SPERE, a spear. In the mode of printing too, he hath ventured to depart from the common mode, by rejecting the long f in favour of the round one, as being less liable to error from the occasional imperfections of the letter f, and the frequent substitution of it for the long f; the regularity of the print is by that means very much promoted, the lines having the effect of being more open,. without really being at any additional distance. How far the Editor, by what he hath done, may have accomplished his object, it becomes not him to determine. He, however, awaits the Sentence of the PUBLIC, with the less apprehension, from a consciousness of the assistance with which he hath been favoured. To those Gentlemen, who have not only corrected their Notes, as printed before, but increased the obligation, by fresh communications; he begs leave to return his most grateful acknowledgments.

In the following part of this Arrangement, the ANNOTA-
TIONS are to be bound up at the end of each PLAY,
and the EMBELLISHMENTS in the situations to which
they immediately refer.

Vol. 3. THE TEMPEST, with A Vignette Scene print.

And a Character print.

TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA, with a

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Vignette Scene print.
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Vol. 4. THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR.

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