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Excerpt from An Inquiry Into the Genuineness of the Manuscript Corrections in Mr. J. Payne Collier's: Annotated Shakspere, Folio, 1632
The following pages are meant to redeem the pledge given to the public in The T {mes of July 2, 1859, in which a more complete examination was promised into the genuineness of numerous modern alterations in Shakspere's text, than was possible in the columns of a newspaper. The matter, I believe, has a great importance, greater than is even suspected as yet. It is really this - whether we shall retain our National Poet's works in a form approaching perfection, or miserably corrupted.
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