REVISAL O F Shakespear's Text, WHERE IN The ALTERATIONS introduced into it by Ερωτηθείς [ὁ Σόλων] πῶς ἥκισα ἀδικοιεν οι ἄνθρωποι; Εσ Printed for W. JOHNSTON, in Ludgate-Street. MDCCLXV, 593997-R. TO THE HONOURABLE THE LORD KAIMES, THE TRUEST JUDGE AND MOST INTELLIGENT ADMIRER OF SHAKESPEAR: THIS IMPERFECT ATTEMPT TOWARDS RESCUING HIS REMAINS FROM THE LICENTIOUS INNOVATIONS OF INJUDICIOUS CRITICISM, IS, IN GRATEFUL ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF HIS OWN OBLIGATIONS TO HIS LORDSHIP'S ELEGANT AND INSTRUCTIVE WRITINGS, WITH THE MOST RESPECTFUL DEFERENCE SUBMISSIVELY DEDICATED BY HIS LORDSHIP'S UNKNOWN HUMBLE SERVANT, THE AUTHOR. HAT the reader may not be difappointed, by expecting an entertainment from the following fheets which he is not likely to find, it may be not improper to premise this advertisement, that the whole fcope, and only defign of the author of them is, to contribute his endeavours towards a more correct and genuine edition of Shakespear's text than hath been yet published. It is a misfortune which will ever be lamented by all perfons, who have the least pretence to taste or fentiment, that the publication of the works of this amazing genius, fecond to none in any age or language, hath fallen to the lot of the moft illiterate and incapable editors; who seem to have given themselves no farther trouble or concern in the execution of their undertaking, than merely that of handing to the press such copies as the playhouse could moft readily furnish them with, however defective or erroneous. And what adds to this misfortune is, that it is now become in great measure irreparable, fince even thefe playhouse copies are now lọst, and the moft exact refearches have not hitherto produced A 3 |