(J. PLYMSELL, Printer, Leather Lane, Holborn, London.]

LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST.*

VOL. VII.

B

* Love's Labour's Lost.) I have not hitherto discovered any novel on which this comedy appears to have been founded ; and yet the story of it has moft of the features of an ancient romance. STEEVENS.

I suspect that there is an error in the title of this play, which I believe, should be—“ Love's Labours Loft." M. MASON.

Love's Labour's Loft, I conjecture to have been written in 1594. See An Attempt to ascertain the Order of Shakspeare's Plays, Tol. II. MALONE.

PERSONS REPRESENTED.*

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Ferdinand, King of Navarre.
Biron,
Longaville, Lords, attending on the King.
Dumain,
Boyet,
Mercade,

Lords, attending on the Princess of }

France.
Don Adriano de Armado, a fantastical Spaniard.
Sir Nathaniel, a Curate.
Holofernes, a Schoolmafter.
Dull, a Constable.
Costard, a Clown.
Moth, Page to Armado.
A Forefter.
Princess of France.
Rosaline,
Maria,

. Katharine, Jaquenetta, a country Wench.

} Ladies, attending on the Princess.

Officers and others, Attendants on the King and

Princess.

SCENE, Navarre.

* This enumeration of the persons was made by Mr. Rowe.

JOHNSON.