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Excerpt from Strictures: On Mr. Collier's New Edition of Shakespeare, 1858 Mr. Collier's new edition of Shakespeare, - which appeared not long after my own edition, - had been published six months before I even looked into it. Heartily tired of reading and writing about vari lectiones and contested passages, I had resolved to defer forming any acquaintance with Mr. Collier's more recent labours till the time arrived, - if it ever came, - when a re-impression of my own Shakespeare should be called for: and I only abandoned that resolution on learning, from several quarters, how Mr. Collier had assailed me throughout the whole book. Besides bringing against me in his Preface sundry charges which are utterly false, Mr. Collier has over and over again, when speaking of me in his Notes, had recourse to such artful misrepresentation as, I believe, was never before practised, except by the most unprincipled hirelings of the press. 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."