William Shakespeare
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Excerpt from Hamlet, And, as You Like It: A Specimen of an Edition of Shakespeare From no other than. One of the above sources can a faithful editor b
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e warranted in drawing: he can follow no other text: and so closely does Mr. Horne Tooke adhere to this, or even a stricter, principle; as to insist, that this folio is the only edition worth regarding; and though he admits it has some palpable misprints, he would have it re printed litemtz'm, not to risk the loss of Shake speare's genuine text, which it assuredly contains. Divers. Or purley, II. 52, 3. This folio, then, is made the groundwork of the proposed edition and present specimen, in which also will be admitted such additional matter as has occurred in the twenty quartos published by Mr. Steevens. From these surreptitious quartos we copy readily: and feel, that we have warrant. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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