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[ 280 ] ome of his contemporaries had not been long dead, render it highly improbable that this play hould have been the compoition of Shakpeare.

Shakpeare’s natural dipoition leading him, as Dr. Johnon has oberved, to comedy, it is highly probable that his firt dramatick production was of the comick kind: and of his comedies none appears to me to bear tronger marks of a firt eSS undefineday than Love’s Labour Lot.. The frequent rhymes with which it abounds, of which, in his early perform-