and Thomas Brereton's
Preface to _Esther_. (IV, 2) [#15870]

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[Transcriber's Corrections:

ARS title page: Publication Number 20
_text reads_ 19, corrected by hand to 20. "Number 20" agrees with
later years' ARS publication lists.

vii: before he could write full Many.
_text reads_ Man .

xxiv: that surprizing Knowledge of human Nature
_text reads_ surpizing

xlii: its Causes, (which takes in a great Number
_text has_ blank space before "which" at beginning of line

lv: the Look of a _Visor_
_text reads_ the Look o a _with extra blank space_

Also Noted:

xii: intirely synonomous Terms
_spelling "synonomous" as in original_

xvii: the Stanza's sung by the Gravedigger
_apostrophe in original_

xxiii: frustraq; laboret
_abbreviation "q;" (-que) as in original_

xxxvii: Sidenote: The old Editions faulty, whence.
_exact text as in original_

lxi: For Safety lent him on the watry Waste,
_no apostrophe in "watry"_

ARS List of Publications: _Preface to Shakespeare's Works_
_wording as in original_ ]

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