Excerpt from Notes on Elizabethan Dramatists: With Conjectural Emendations of the Text All verbal critics, more or less, have had to pay, and always will have; for verbal criticism neither can, nor will, be stop ped: it is essential to the advancement of learning. The eminent philologist Gottfried Hermann, who stands in the frontrank of verbal critics, in one of his lectures, delivered it as his conviction that a verbal critic of the true stamp should be willing like Saturn to devour his own offspring. As one of his disciples, therefore, I cannot be blamed if, following his precept and example, I hereby eat those conject ural emendations of Elizabethan dramatists which I have hither to published and which are not contained in my editions of Elizabethan plays, in Messrs Warnke's and Proescholdt's Edition of 'mucedorus', and in the present collection; at the same time let me breathe the h0pe that the emendations published in those editions and in this collection may not need, at some future day, to be subjected to the same Satur nian process. My conjectural emendations in the text of 'mucedorus', which appeared originally in the Shakespeare Jahrbuch XIII, 45 seqq., have been excluded from the present collection merely on the ground that almost all of them and some fresh ones to boot have been embodied in the edition of that play by Messrs Warnke and Proescholdt. The emendations of 'mucedorus' contained in the present volume have not been published before. 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.