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THE

WORKS

O F

SHAKESPEAR.

VOLUME the EIGHTH

CONTAINING

ROMEO and JULIET,

HAMLET.

OTHELLO.

A GLOSSARY.

AN INDEX,

E.D IN BURGH:

Printed by ALEX. DONALDSON.

M, DCC, LXIX,

BRITISH LIBRARY

The SCENE, in the beginning of the fifth a&t, is in Mantua, during all the rest of the play, in and near Verona.

PR

L O G U E.

WO houfholds, both alike in dignity,

Tin fair Verona, (where we lay our scene),

From ancient grudge break to new mutiny;

Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.
From forth the fatal loins of these two foes,
A pair of far-crofs'd lovers take their life;
Whofe mifadventur'd piteous overthrows

Do, with their death, bury their parents' ftrife.
The fearful paffage of their death-mark'd love,
And the continuance of their parent's `rage.

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The plot of this play is taken from an Italian novel of Bandelle. VOL. VIII, † A