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The text of the present volume is, by permission of the Oxford University Press, that of the Oxford Shakespeare, edited by the late W. J. Craig, except for the following deviations:

1. The stage directions and the list of dramatis personce are those of the First Folio, any alterations and additions being enclosed in square brackets. The Folio numbering of scenes in the fourth act has been followed.

2. A few minor changes in punctuation (such as good now, for good now in V. i. 19) and in spelling (such as primroses for prime-roses in IV. iv. 122) have been made.

3. The following alterations, all reversions to the readings of the First Folio, have been made in the text, the reading of the Folio and the present text preceding the colon, and that of Craig following it:

nor dreamed: no nor dreamed

Leon. What cheer?: Pol. What cheer?

free of. But: free of: but

this: thy

it: its

does: doth

What flaying? boiling: What flaying? or what boiling

To: Unto

ten: sixteen

our: her