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OF

WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE.

VOLUME THE SECOND.

CONTAINING

PROLEGOMENA, &c.

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V.2

AN

ESSAY

ON

THE LEARNING OF SHAKSPEARE..

BY

RICHARD FARMER, D. D.

MASTER OF EMMANUEL COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE, AND PRINCIPAL LIBRARIAN OF THAT UNIVERSITY.

Though our commentaries on the following Plays have been enriched by numerous extracts from this celebrated Essay, the whole of it is here reprinted. I shall hazard no contradiction relative to the value of its contents, when I add

-prosunt singula, juncta juvant. STEEVENS.