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. 234 Names of the original Actors in SHAKSPERE'S Plays. List of detached Pieces of Criticism on SHAKSPERE, Entries of SHAKSPERE's Plays on the Books of the Sta- tioners' Company. A Portrait of His Royal Highness the PRINCE of WALES. Portrait of SHAKSPERE, from the Duke of Chandos's Picture, The Second Volume, entitled PROLEGOMENA, contains A List of Ancient Translations from Classic Authors. Portrait of Mr. MALONE, to front the Title-page. Portrait of GARRICK, has no immediate reference to the In In the following part of this Arrangement, the ANNOTA- Vol. 3. THE TEMPEST, with A Vignette Scene print. And a Character print. TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA, with a 90 . Vignette Scene print. |