NOTICE.

In this re-impression of Webster's Works (which were first collected and edited by me in 1830) I have considerably altered both the Text and Notes throughout, and made some slight additions to the Memoir of the poet. I have also excluded from the present edition a worthless drama, which I too hastily admitted into the former one,-The Thracian Wonder; for though it was published by Kirkman as “written by John Webster and William Rowley," internal evidence decides that Webster could no more have had a hand in it than in another play called The Weakest goeth to the Wall, a portion of which is ignorantly ascribed to him by Phillips: see p. xv., note.

DECEMBER, 1857.

A. DYCE.

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