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Excerpt from Shakspere's Merchant of Venice: The Second (and Better) Quarto, 1600, a Facsimile in Foto-Lithography Other evidence tending to prove the betterness of this second or Heyes Quarto - notwithstanding some worsenesses - is given in my_ above-quoted Forewords to Q1, p. V - vii, and need not be repeated here. Since they were written, I have edited the Play with my friend Mr. W. G. Stone for the old-spelling S/zakspere, and Mr. F. A. Marshall has also edited it for the modernized and illustrated edition of Shakspere, which he is preparing (in some slight conjunction with Mr. Hy. Irving) for Messrs. Blackie. We all three hold the Heyes Quarto to be better than the Roberts. 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.