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Excerpt from Prosody and Text: An Essay in Criticism, Being an Introduction to a Better Editing and a More Adequate Appreciation of the Works of the Elizabethan Poets
The quotations from the remaining old texts, not marked as reprints, are from copies in the British Museum.
In all our quotations from old texts we have made it a rule to substitute 7} for the old 25, wherever the latter re presents the modern We have besides normalised the numerous cases of italicisation and capitalization in the old texts, because their retention might unduly direct the reader's attention to things immaterial to our purpose. With these exceptions we have to the best of our ability conscientiously reproduced all the letters and signs of the printed texts. Here and there, however, an old i may, accidentally and against our will, have been replaced by by the modern j.
Unless the reverse is expressly stated, all our references to Shakespeare's works are to the division in acts and scenes and the line-numbering of the Globe Edition, 1895.
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