ABSTRACT
The numbering of the preceding text has been designed to facilitate the use of the following appendices and to assist in any possible reconstruction of the Quarto. Thus the text contains two sets of numbers, one to its left and the other to its right. The former runs consecutively from 1-77, and indicates those lines which begin a new page of the Quarto. The latter, which indicates the line numbers, runs consecutively from the beginning to the end of each scene, with the exception that stage directions are numbered separately and are always preceded in the notes and in the text by a zero. Following the usual procedure of modern editions, prose is numbered according to each typed line, poetry according to each verse line. Where a verse line is split between two or more characters it is appropriately indented. Any line with a number to its right indicates the presence of an emendation as recorded in the textual notes.
