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surely now be considered as finally decided and at rest. The correctness of the text secures it from obscurity; and the illustration of the manners of Shakespeare's age is a, totally different task from that of editing his works.

As no author affords such advantages for the painter, it has been the editor's object to give the venerable bard the ornaments of the pencil. In this task the best artists have been employed; and their labours are disposed in vignettes, which were preferred to separate engravings, as making not merely an appendage to the work, but an integral part of it. The utmost attention has been employed, throughout, to render the ornaments worthy of the author they are intended to adorn; and, on the whole, the editor trusts the present has a title to be termed an elegant, as well as a correct, edition of the immortal Shakspeare.

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SIWARD, Earl of NORTHUMBERLAND, General of the

English Forces:

Young SIWARD, his Son.

SEYTON, an Officer attending on MACBETH.

Son to MACDuff.

An English Doctor. A Scotch Doctor.

A Soldier. A Porter. An old Man.

Lady MACBETH.

Lady MACDUFf.

Gentlewoman attending on Lady MACBETH.

HECATE, and three Witches.

Lords, Gentlemen, Officers, Soldiers, Murderers, Attendants, and Messengers.

The Ghost of BANQUO, and several other Apparitions.

SCENE, in the End of the fourth Act, lies in England; through the rest of the Play, in Scotland; and, chiefly, at MACBETH's Castle.

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