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PREFATORY NOTE

This GLOSSARY is reprinted from the last revised edition of the original work, with no changes or additions except as follows:

1. Dyce's references for the illustrative quotations from Shakespeare are only to volume and page of his own edition. For these (which are useless except to owners of the Dyce edition), references to the particular play, with act, scene, and line (Cambridge numbering), or the particular poem, with title and line, have been substituted.

2. References to the Cambridge text have been inserted when the word defined, as given in that text, varies from Dyce's text.

3. In defining words Dyce sometimes merely refers to his notes on the play or poem for explanation instead of giving it in the GLOSSARY. For these words the information in the notes has been transferred to the GLOSSARY, thus making it complete in itself.