ADVERTISEMENT.
The Admirers of Shakespear must not
take it ill that there are some Scenes,
and consequently many fine Passages, omitted
in this Edition of Cymbeline. It was
impossible to retain more of the Play and
bring it within the Compass of a Night's
Entertainment. The chief Alterations are in
the Division of the Acts, in the Shortning
many parts of the Original, and transposing
some Scenes. As the Play has met with so
favourable a Reception from the Publick, it
is hop'd that the Alterations have not been
made with great Impropriety.
N.B. The Scene printed in Italics in the fifth
Act was omitted in the Representation
after the first Night, but it is thought
proper to print it.