LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST.*

VOL. VII.

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* 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 most 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 Lost." M. MASON.

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

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Jaquenetta, a country Wench.

Officers and others, Attendants on the King and

Princess.

SCENE, Navarre.

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

JOHNSON.