tables in full for each play. The four last lines in the table are from the imperfect editons in the first Quartos. With regard to the position of the Taming of the Shrew as assigned by me, as also indeed for Timon, Pericles, and Henry VI., I must ask for absolute forbearance, until my special papers on these plays are read. I hope the first-mentioned of these plays especially will not appear so misplaced as it must do now after the paper devoted to it has been studied. N.B. The columns headed Alternates, Sonnets, and Doggerel are included in the totals summed in the column headed Rhymes, 5 measures, which gives the number of all rhyming lines not shorter than the ordinary blank-verse line. VII.-PLAYS IN WHICH SHAKESPEARE WAS NOT SOLE VIII. FIRST SKETCHES IN EARLY QUARTOS. Rom. and Juliet. 2066 261 1451 Titus Andron. 12525 1 Henry VI....... 2693 2 Henry VI. ....... 3032 3 Henry VI. ...... 2904 Contention.... 1952 True Tragedy ... 2101 354 92 28 54 43 209 [36 1. in play] 30104 7 26 302192 13 45 76 37 30 I54 125 35 3115 9 9'12 54 POSTSCRIPT TO PAPER I. Table of Ratios of rhyme-lines in rhyme-scenes to blank-verse lines in each play :—(First approximation.) The above table is corrected up to the date of my present investigations (Sept. 1875) from one published in The Academy by me (March 28, 1874). My reasons for all alterations will be given in my special paper on each play. They are based chiefly on a more scientific application of the rhyme-test, aided by the weak-ending test, the middle syllable test, and above all by the casura test, which is next in importance to the rhyme-test; and has helped me much in making a different division of the plays in some instances. Cymbeline, however, was misplaced through another cause, a numerical blunder; which I have now corrected. As these investigations extend, this table will require further correction. CHAPTER II. ON THE QUARTO EDITIONS OF SHAKESPEARE'S WORKS. A LIST of these has long been wanted, drawn up in such a way as to afford ready reference to students in search of such information as can be obtained from the title-pages of the various volumes. These have often been reprinted; but such a table as is annexed will give readier access to the inquirer, and also, from the manner of its arrangement, supply information that would otherwise require many separate documents. Explanation of the Table.-In the extreme left-hand and righthand columns are placed the dates of publication, and in the horizontal lines between these the names of the works published in those years, as well as the names of the printers and publishers; and the symbols (Q1, Q2, &c.) by which the Cambridge editors refer to each edition. The works are divided into four groups, partly with a view to avoid the straggling arrangement which would be necessary were no such division adopted; partly with regard to certain peculiarities in each group, which will presently be pointed out in the Notes. The first of these groups contains poems only, viz. Venus and Adonis, Lucreece, and the Passionate Pilgrim. The second group contains the Sonnets, Richard II., Richard III., 1st and 2nd Henry IV., and Much Ado about Nothing. The third group contains three plays originally published in imperfect editions, Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, and The Merry Wives of Windsor; three plays that differ much from the Folios, viz. Troylus and Cressida, Lear, and Othello; two plays, of which two editions each were published originally in |