THE COMPLETE WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

IN TWENTY

VOLUMES

MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING

AS YOU LIKE IT

VOLUME V

The annotations at the foot of the page are intended to explain difficult phrases or allusions. Single words, which are no longer in common use, appear only in the glossary, which is printed in Volume XX. The numbering of the lines follows that of the Cambridge Edition, the text of which is used in this edition.