TITUS ANDRONICUS.

Theobald declares it incontestable,
I fee no reason for believing.
The chronology of this play
does not prove it not to be
Shakespeare's. If it had been
written twenty-five years, in
1614, it might have been writ-
ten when Shakespeare was twen-
ty-five years old.

When he

left Warwickshire I know not, but at the age of twenty-five it was rather too late to fly for deer-stealing.

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Ravenfcroft, who, in the reign
of Charles II. revised this play,
and restored it to the ftage, tells
us in his preface, from a thea-
trical tradition I fuppose, which
in his time might be of fufficient
authority, that this play was
touched in different parts by
Shakespeare, but written by fome
I do not find
other poet.
Shakespeare's touches very dif-
cernible.

THE

THE

TRAGEDY

O F

MACBETH.

Fleance, Son to Banquo.

Siward, General of the English Forces.

Young Siward, his Son.

Seyton, an Officer attending on Macbeth.
Son to Macduff.

Doctor.

Lady Macbeth.
Lady Macduff.

Gentlewomen attending on Lady Macbeth.
Hecate, and three other Witches.

Lords, Gentlemen, Officers, Soldiers and Attendants.

The Ghoft of Banquo, and feveral other Apparitions.

SCENE, in the End of the fourth At, lies in England; through the rest of the Play, in Scotland; and, chiefly, at Macbeth's Caftle.

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Of this play there is no edition more antient than that of 1623.

Moft of the notes which the

prefent Editor has fubjoined to this play were published by him in a small pamphlet in 1745

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W

I WITCH.

HEN fhall we three meet again In thunder, lightning, or in rain? 2 Witch. When the hurly-burly's done, . When the Battle's loft and won.

3 Witch. That will be ere Set of Sun.