THE MOOR OF VENICE.

A TRAGEDY.

BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.

COLLATED WITH

THE OLD AND MODERN EDITIONS.

LONDON,

PRINTED BY W. BOWYER AND J. NICHOLS:

AND SOLD BY W. OWEN, BETWEEN THE TEMPLE-GATES, FLEET-STREET.

MDCCLXXIII.

As it hath

and at the Written

Black-Friers, by his Majefties Servants. William Shakespeare. London, Printed by N. O. for Thomas Walkley, and are to be fold at his Shop,' at the Eagle and Child, in Brittans Burffe, 1622 *.

2d Quarto. The title-page wanting.

The four Folios and other Editions as in Hamlet.

This Edition hath the following Preface."

The S ationer to the Reader.

TO set forth a booke without an Epistle, were like to the old English prouerbe, A blew coat without a badge. The Author being dead, I thought good to take that piece of worke upon mee: To commend it, I will not, for that which is good, I hope every man will commend, without intreaty: and I am the bolder, because the Author's name is fufficient to vent his worke. Thus leaving every one to the liberty of iudgement, I have ventered to print this Play, and leave it to the generall cenfure,