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PREFACEIn preparing the text of this volume, we have in general followed thesame rules as in the so-called 'Cambridge Shakespeare7: rules which weadopted originally after much deliberation, and of which the soundnesshas been confirmed by our subsequent experience.As however the two editions differ in plan, the one recording in foot-notes all the various readings and conjectural emendations, the othergiving only the text, we have in some particulars modified our rules.For instance, in cases where the text of the earliest editions ismanifestly faulty, but where it is impossible to decide with confidencewhich, if any, of several suggested emendations is right, we have in theiCambridge Shakespeare' left the original reading in our text, mentioningin our notes all the proposed alterations: in this edition, we have sub-stituted in the text the emendation which seemed most probable, or incases of absolute equality, the earliest suggested. But the whole numberof such variations between the texts of the two editions is very small.In this volume, whenever the original text has been corrupted insuch a way as to affect the sense, no admissible emendation having beenproposed, or whenever a lacuna occurs too great to be filled up with anyapproach to certainty by conjecture, we have marked the passage with anobelus (f).