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MODERN CHARACTERS

For 1778.

By SHAKESPEAR.

To hold as 'twere the Mirror up to

Nature to fhew Virtue, her own Feature ;

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own Image; and the very Age, and Body of the Time, hi

Form, and Pressure..

HAMLET.

THIRD EDITION.

LONDON:

Printed, and fold by D. BROWN, No. 6, Catherine-street, Strand; and all the Bookfelle in Town and Country.

M,DCC,LXXVIII.

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ADVERTISEMENT.

THE following CHARACTERS are faid to owe their modern arrangement, to the New Year's Whim that precedes them: but whether they found their way to that universal, and fashionable Register the MORNING POST, by the channel of accident, or defign, the present Compiler will not venture to determine. He deems it fufficient for him to have collected them carefully,-to have corrected their typographical errors, and prefented them to the world with additions from the other Prints who imitated the defign;-thus forming a general collection of thefe Modern Likenees for the amufement of the Beau Monde, and proving to the world, that the Characters drawn by the pencil of SHAKESPEAR, are flriking copies from the univerfal School of Nature, and will therefore reprefent the features of every age, down to the latest pofterity.

March 18, 1778.

THE COMPILER.

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