mance.

* 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 ro

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.

PERSONS REPRESENTED.*

Ferdinand, King of Navarre.
Biron,
Longaville, Lords, attending on the King.
Dumain,
Boyet, Lords, attending on the Princess of
Mercade,

France.
Don Adriano de Armado, a fantastical Spaniard.
Sir Nathaniel, a Curate.
Holofernes, a Schoolmaster.
Dull, a Constable.
Costard, a Clown.
Moth, Page to Armado.
A Forester.

Princess of France.
Rosaline,
Maria, Ladies, attending on the Princess.
Katharine,
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.