...First Folio tell us in their address To the great Variety of Readers: "You were abus'd with diuerse stolne, and surreptitious copies, maimed, and deformed...the frauds and stealthes of injurious impostors." Such evidence as PA Daniel massed in his Introduction to the Parallel Texts is almost conclusive that...

...CollecteD & Publish'D TheM ; AnD SO TO HauE Publish'D TheM, AS WherE (BeforE) YoU WerE Abus'D WitH DiuersE StolnE, AnD SurreptitiouS CopieS, MaimeD, AnD DeformeD BY ThE FraudS AnD StealtheS OF IniuriouS ImpostorS, ThaT Expose'D TheM : EueN ThosE, ArE NoW Offer'd TO YouR VieW Cur'D, AnD PerfecT...

...First Folio tell us in their address To the great Variety of Readers: "You were abus'd with diuerse stolne, and surreptitious copies, maimed, and deformed by the frauds and stealthes of iniurious impostors." Such evidence as PA Daniel massed in his Introduction to the Parallel Texts is...

...Appeales." A favourable judgment was the more to be expected that readers had been previously "abus'd with diverse stolne and surreptitious copies, maimed and deformed by the frauds and stealths of injurious imposters " ; and at present the plays were, on the contrary, shown to view "...

...collected & published them ; and so to have publish' d them, as where (before) you were abus'd with diverse stolne, and surreptitious copies, maimed,...frauds and stealthes of injurious impostors, that expos'd them: even those, are now offer' d to your view cur'd, and perfect of their limbes; and all...

...collected & publish'd them ; and so to haue publish'd them, as where (before) you were abus'd with diuerse stolne, and surreptitious copies, maimed, and deformed by the frauds and stealthes of injurious imposters, that expos'd them : euen those, are now offer'd to your view tur'd, and perfect of their...

...collected & publish'd them; and so to haue publish d them, as where (before) you were abus'd with diuerse in debt ; and therefore, like iniurious impostors, that expos'd them: euen those, are now offer'd to your view cur'd, and perfect...

...implies careful revision and correction, since the former editions (the quartos) are condemned as " stolne, and surreptitious copies, maimed and deformed...the frauds and stealthes of injurious impostors." Yet, a few lines further on we are told that " What he thought he uttered with that easinesse, that...

...collected and published " the plays, have so published them " that whereas you were abus'd with divers stolne and surreptitious copies, maimed and deformed...stealthes of injurious impostors that exposed them : even those " (namely, the pieces previously ill-produced by pirates) " are now offered to your view...

...world. Of the thirty-six plays included in the First Folio, sixteen had been published in quarto from ' diverse stolne and surreptitious copies, maimed and deformed by the frauds and stealthes of incurious impostors that expos'd them.' Among the twenty printed for the first time in the Folio are...