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The Prince's Directions to the Players are exceeding good, and are evidently brought in as Lessons for the Players, who were _Shakespeare's_ Companions, and he thought this a very proper Occasion to animadvert upon those Faults which were disagreeable to him. Whoever reads these Observations of his, if one may prove a Thing by a negative Argument, must believe _Shakespeare_ to have been an excellent Actor himself; for we can hardly imagine him to have been guilty of the Mistakes he is pointing out to his Brethren.