The Plays of William Shakespeare

THE

P L AY S

OF

WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE.

IN TWENTY-ONE VOLUMES.

WITH

THE CORRECTIONS AND ILLUSTRATIONS

OF

VARIOUS COMMENTATORS.

TO WHICH ARB ADDED,

N O T E S,

BY

SAMUEL JOHNSON AND GEORGE STEEVENS.

THE FIFTH EDITION.

REVISED AND AUGMENTED

BY ISAAC REED,
WITH A GLOSSARIAL INDE X.

ΤΗΣ ΦΥΣΕΩΣ ΓΡΑΜΜΑΤΕΥΣ ΗΝ, ΤΟΝ ΚΑΛΑΜOΝ ΑΠΟΒΡΕΧΩΝ ΕΙΣ ΝΟΥΝ,

Vet. Auct, apud. Suidam.
Time, which is continually washing away the dissoluble Fabricks of other
Poets, passes without Injury by the Adamant of SHAKSPEARE.

Dr. Johnson's Preface.
MULTA DIES, VARIUSQUE LABOR MUTABILIS ÆVI
RETULIT IN MELIUS, MULTOS ALTERNA REVISENS
LUSIT, ET IN SOLIDO RURSUS FORTUNA LOCAVIT.

Virgil.

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