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modern editors are of course many, and have been recorded in the notes, in which are also specified constant obligations to the new Oxford English Dictionary. I have, however, ventured to dispute the application of two or three of its citations, e.g. in notes on IV. v. 230 and V. i. 16. The Cambridge Shakespeare has been used for variant readings subsequent to the first folio (F).
New matter, or supposed new interpretation, in the notes, includes a suggested explanation of the crux in I. ix. 46: “Let him be made an overture for the wars!”
References to other plays of Shakespeare apply to the Globe edition, and those to Gifford’s Jonson, ed. Cunningham, to the edition in three volumes.
R. H. CASE
