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124 to Shakespeare. The rest of the scene (250-296) was probably written by Shakespeare, with the exception of about eighteen lines of dialogue between the two lords and Apemantus (266-283). Bad verse and blunders have marked the second scene as non-Shakespearean. The first scene of the second act is Shakespeare's (II. i.). The second scene of this act is, by substantial agreement, conceded to be Shakespeare's as far as the entrance of Apemantus and the Fool (II. ii. 1-45), and there is approximately similar agreement that the episode introduced by this entrance is spurious (46-132). The remainder of the scene, approximately (133-243), is usually attributed to Shakespeare except ten prose lines that intrude upon the verse (196-205). The first three scenes of the