Excerpt from Demetrius and Enanthe, Being the Humorous Lieutenant: A Play That the passages now first printed are genuine, there can be no doubt: by whom they were origi nally omitted, whether by the players or the editors, -it is in vain to inquire. If by a strange and happy chance We were to discover Shakespeare's own manuscript copies of some of his finest pieces, we should perhaps find that similar sins of omis sion were to be charged on the persons who first consigned those dramas to the press, -dramas, which, though now regarded as miracles of human genius, their author seems to have composed with out an eye to the applauses of posterity; and, after they had served his immediate purpose, to have let drop from him with indifference, as the tree gives its blossoms to the wind. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.