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" Every member had a copy of the Variorum of 1821, which we fondly believed had gathered under each play all Shakespearian lore worth preserving down to that date.

What had been added since that year was scattered in many different editions, and in numberless volumes dispersed over the whole domain of literature.

To gather these stray items of criticism was real toil, real but necessary if we did not wish our labour over the text to be in vain.