the Stationers-Company, together with accommodations which rendered the perusal of them convenient to me, though troublesome to himself.

Mr. Malone has attempted, in the following pages, to ascertain the chronological order in which the plays of Shakspere were written. By the aid of the registers at Stationers-Hall, and such internal evidence as the pieces themselves supply, he has so happily accomplished his undertaking, that he only leaves me the power to thank him for an arrangement which I profess my inability either to dispute or to improve.

STEEVENS.

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