THE

WORKS

O F

SHAKESPEAR.

IN SIX VOLUMES.

ADORNED WITH SCULPTURE S.

THE SECOND EDITION.

NIL ORTUM TALE. HOR.

OXFORD:

PRINTED AT THE CLARENDON PRESS.

M DCC LXXI.

HE first edition of the following work was published at the Clarendon prefs in the year 1744; an account of which is given by the editor, Sir T. H. in the following preface written by himfelf. The impreffion, having been fmall, was fuddenly bought up; and the original price advanced to a very exorbitant fum. The great demand therefore of the publick for fo elegant an edition induced the delegates of the univerfity prefs to fet about this republication in which the inaccuracies of the firft impreffion in punctuation and spelling are carefully adjusted; and, in order to obviate fuch other objections as have been made to it, at the end of each volume are annexed the various readings of the two most authentick publishers of our author's plays, Mr. Theobald, and Mr. Capell. The gloffary (to which are prefixed Mr. Upton's rules explaining the anomalies of our author) has received very confiderable additions, not only from the feveral editions of Shakespear's plays, but likewife from the notes of the editors of Beaumont and Fletcher, Ben. Jonson, and others; from Mr. Urry's gloffary to Chaucer, and Mr. Upton's to Spenfer; Lye's etymologicon, Dr. Grey's notes upon Shakespear, &c. Besides which the reader will find fome valuable notes communicated by the Rev. Dr. Percy, editor of Reliques of