Excerpt from The Shakespeare-Expositor: An Aid to the Perfect Understanding of Shakespeare's Plays At the risk, or rather I should say with the certainty, of being charged with egotism, I will here state the following fact for why should truth be concealed? As I was one day, many years ago, discussing some points in my Tales and Popular Fictions with the late Mr. Douce, he suddenly exclaimed Oh, that you had but my knowledge! What discoveries you would make! I believe he was right, and that, under more favourable circumstances, I should have done much; but it was not to be. 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.