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The spelling in the plays when they were first published was frequently different from today's standard, and not infrequently inconsistent with itself. However, we cannot be sure whose spelling that was: Shakespeare's, the person that made the copy that the printer got, or one of the several typesetters working on the book. Whoever it was, this much is for sure--people didn't sweat about bad spelling as much as they do now (or did recently--spelling standards even in things produced by big companies have slipped seriously in recent years).

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