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ABBREVIATIONS USED IN THE NOTES.

  • Abbott (or Gr.), Abbott's Shakespearian Grammar (third edition).
  • A. S., Anglo-Saxon.
  • A. V., Authorized Version of the Bible (1611).
  • B. and F., Beaumont and Fletcher.
  • B. J., Ben Jonson.
  • Camb. ed., "Cambridge edition" of Shakespeare, edited by Clark and Wright.
  • Cf. (confer), compare.
  • Coll., Collier (second edition).
  • D., Dyce (second edition).
  • Dowden, Prof. E. Dowden's eds. of the Sonnets (see p. 11, foot-note, above).
  • Gildon, Chas. Gildon's ed. of Shakespeare's Poems (London, 1710).
  • H., Hudson ("Harvard" edition).
  • Halliwell, J. O. Halliwell (folio ed. of Shakespeare).
  • Id. (idem), the same.
  • K., Knight (second edition).
  • Lintott, the 1709 ed. of the Poems (see p. 10 above).
  • Massey, Gerald Massey's Shakespeare's Sonnets, etc. (London, 1866). Cf. p. 21 above.
  • Nares, Glossary, edited by Halliwell and Wright (London, 1859).
  • Palgrave, F. T. Palgrave's ed. of Shakespeare's Songs and Sonnets (London, 1879).
  • Prol., Prologue.
  • S., Shakespeare.
  • Schmidt, A. Schmidt's Shakespeare-Lexicon (Berlin, 1874).
  • Sewell, Geo. Sewell's ed. of the Poems (7th vol. of Pope's ed. of 1725).
  • Sr., Singer.
  • St., Staunton.
  • Theo., Theobald.
  • W., R. Grant White.
  • Walker, Wm. Sidney Walker's Critical Examination of the Text of Shakespeare (London, 1860).
  • Warb., Warburton.
  • Wb., Webster's Dictionary (revised quarto edition of 1879).
  • Worc, Worcester's Dictionary (quarto edition).


The abbreviations of the names of Shakespeare's Plays will be readily understood; as T. N. for Twelfth Night, Cor. for Coriolanus, 3 Hen. VI. for The Third Part of King Henry the Sixth, etc. P. P. refers to The Passionate Pilgrim; V. and A. to Venus and Adonis; L. C. to Lover's Complaint; and Sonn. to the Sonnets.


When the abbreviation of the name of a play is followed by a reference to page, Rolfe's edition of the play is meant. The numbers of the lines in the references are those of the "Globe" ed.


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