AS YOU LIKE IT..

THE TAMING OF THE SHREW.

THE COMEDY OF ERRORS.

LONDON:

Printed for R. CROWDER, C. WARE, and T. PAYNE.

M.DCC.LXXII.

Speed, a clownish fervant to Valentine.
Launce, the like to Protheus.

Panthion, fervant to Anthonio.

Julia, a lady of Verona, beloved of Protheus.

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Silvia, the Duke of Milan's daughter, beloved of Valentine.
Lucetta, waiting-woman to Julia,

Servants, Musicians.

The SCENE, sometimes in Verona; fometimes in Milan; and on the Frontiers of Mantua.

C

SCENE, an open Place in Verona.

Enter VALENTINE and PROTHEUS.

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EASE to perfuade, my loving Protheus;
Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits;
Were't not affection chains thy tender days

To the fweet glances of thy honoured love,
I rather would intreat thy company,
To fee the wonders of the world abroad,
Than (living dully sluggardized at home)
Wear out thy youth with shapeless idleness.

(1) Mr Pope has observed, that the style of this comedy is less figurative, and more natural and unaffected than the greater part of our Author's plays, though supposed to be one of the first he wrote. I muft obferve too, that as I take it to be one of his very worst, it happens to be freeft from accidental corruptions of the editors: which is the reason that my Notes are fewer on this, than on any one of his other pieces.

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