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Errata (noted by transcriber)
_In the Prefaces, errors were corrected only if a later edition showed the same correction._
_Editor's Introduction_
under the imprint of Thomas Salusbury [_spelling is correct_]
another's doing their [i.e., "these"?] Plays before me [_this and following bracketed notes are in the original_]
_Preface to Terence_
vix de demenso suo, suum defraudans genium [demcuso ... defrudans]
Eheu me miseram! [Ehen]
ni unum desit [de sit]
perfectly just, truly proportionably [. for,]
he never fails in any one place, but [. for,]
why he goes off, where he's a going [goes of]
the whole cou'dn't contain above Eleven hours [about Eleven hours]
for such inferior Persons, we leave to others. [. invisible]
or to say very little, as 'twas agreeable to them [_s in "as" invisible_]
In some things they are too short, in others too long [. for,]
_School-Masters_ often want time, and now and then Judgment [time. and now then and]
some hints we had from the _French_, but [. for,]
_Odiosus_, _Tristis_, &c. these we [_missing ; or : after "&c.", OR error for "These"_]
They may possibly take 'em for Blunders [' missing or invisible]
but we have better offend this way than the other [beeter]
_Preface to Plautus_
due Observance and Penetration [Penitration]
Exit +Euclio+. [Eudio]
And besure you secure the Door [_s.p.a.cing as shown_]
For the Reader's Satisfaction, here follows [he follows]
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