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HOUGH you have long left the primroe path of poetry and criticim, for more grave and important tudies, you will, I am confident, very cheerfully pend an hour with me in travering the old Shakpearian field, where we have o often expatiated on "the ever-fruitful ubject" of our great dramatick poet and his Commentators.

When I ﬁrt undertook to give an edition of his Works, it did not appear to me o arduous a tak as I found it. After devoting everal years to their revial and elucidation, I had the honour to preent my edition to the publick in November, 1790, and immediately afterwards et out