Excerpt from A Few Concise Examples of Seven Hundred Errors in Shakspeare's Plays, Now Corrected and Elucidated: And Which Have Afforded Abundant Scope for Critical Animadversion; And Hitherto Held at Defiance the Penetration of All Shakspeare's Commentators WE have had some, but not many, instances where the-fos tering hand of patronage has been denied to genius: this, my predecessors never experienced they found no difficulty in oh taining a liberal compensation for their labours from the Book sellers; for, celebrity of name stamped merit on whatever their genius produced, and was considered a tower of strength by their respective publishers. But whether my production pos sesses merit or not whether it displays superiority, or is inferior to their comments, it hasbeen alike rejected by every book seller to whom I ofl'ered it for publication. But I cannot blame those gentlemen; prejudice has operated with equal force on their minds as on the learned critics', and wherefore, but from the angry lash which illiberal criticism has laid on my predecessors. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.