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WORKS

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SHAKESPEAR.

VOLUME THE EIGHT H.

CONTAINING,

ROMEO AND JULIET.

HAMLE T.

OTHELL O.

A GLOSSARY.

AN INDE X.

EDINBURGH:

Printed by A. DONALDSON, and fold at his Shop,
corner of Arundel-Street, Strand, London; and
at Edinburgh.

M. DCC. LXXI.

DRAMATIS PERSONE.

ESCALUS, Prince of Ve

three Emuk

Sampfon, fervant to Capulet.
Gregory, fervant to Capulet.
Abram, fervant to Montague.
Apothecary.
Simon Catling,
Hugh Rebeck,
Samuel Soundboard, cians.
Peter, fervant to the nurse.
Lady Montague, wife to-
Montague.

Lady Capulet, wife to Capu--
let.

Juliet, daughter to Capulet,
in love with Romeo.
Narfe to Juliet.
Chorus.

Citizens of Verona, feveral
men and women relations to
Capulet, Majkers, Guards, -
Watch,and other attendants. -

The SCENE, in the beginning of the fifth act, is in Mantua, during all the rest of the play, in and near Verona.

T

PROLOGUE.

WO houfholds, both alike in dignity,

In fair Verona, (where we lay our scene), -
From ancient grudge break to new mutiny;
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.
From forth the fatal loins of these two foes,

A pair of far-crofs'd lovers take their life;
Whofe mifadventur'd piteous overthrows

Do, with thei death, bury their parents' ftrife. The fearful paffage of their death-mark'd love, And the continuance of their parents' rage,

The plot of this play is taken from an Italian novel of Bandelle.