WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE BORN APRIL 23.1564, DIED APRIL 23. 1616,

Engraved by C. Knight, from a Drawing of the same size, made by Ozias Humphry. from the original Picture in the Collection of his Grace the Duke of Chandes.

London Pubhfh'd as the Act directs. Feb'1o 1786 by J. Rivington & Partners.

THE

PLAYS AND POEMS

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WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE.

VOLUME THE FIRST.

PART II.

CONTAINING

HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH STAGE.
THE TEMPEST.

THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA,
THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR.

LONDON: PRINTED BY H. BALDWIN,

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H. L. Gardner, J. Sewell, J. Nichols, J. Bew, T. Payne, jun.
S. Hayes, R. Faulder, W. Lowndes, G. and T. Wilkie, Scatcherd
and Whitaker, T.and J. Egerton, C. Stalker, J. Barker, J. Edwards,
Ogilvie and Speare, J. Cuthell, J. Lackington, and E. Newbery.

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