Among the plays spoken of as “all the rest,” namely, those not hitherto published and not deformed by the fraudulent, are, _Tempest_, _Two Gentlemen_, _Measure for Measure_, _Comedy of Errors_, _As You Like It_, _All’s Well_, _Twelfth Night_, _Winter’s Tale_, _Henry VI_, iii., _Henry VIII_, _Coriolanus_, _Timon_, _Julius Cæsar_, _Macbeth_, _Antony and Cleopatra_, and _Cymbeline_. Also _Henry VI_, i., ii., _King John_, and _Taming of the Shrew_, appeared now in other form than in the hitherto published Quartos bearing these or closely similar names. We have, moreover, no previous information as to _The Shrew_, _Timon_, _Julius Cæsar_, _All’s Well_, and _Henry VIII_. The Preface adds the remarkable statement that, whatever Shakespeare thought, “he uttered with that easinesse, that wee have scarce received from him a blot in his papers.” It is plain that the many dramas previously unpublished could only be recovered from manuscripts of one sort or another, because they existed in no other form. The Preface takes it for granted that the selected manuscripts contain the plays “absolute in their numbers as he conceived them.” But the Preface does not commit itself, I repeat, to the statement that all of these many plays are printed from Shakespeare’s own handwriting. After “as he conceived them,” it goes on, “Who, as he was a most happy imitator of nature, was a most gentle expresser of it. His mind and hand went together: and what he thought he uttered with that easiness, that we have scarce received from him a blot in his papers.” This may be meant to _suggest_, but does not _affirm_, that the actors _have_ “all the rest” of the plays in Shakespeare’s own handwriting. They may have, or may have had, some of his manuscripts, and believed that other manuscripts accessible to them, and used by them, contain his very words. Whether from cunning or design, or from the Elizabethan inability to tell a plain tale plainly, the authors or author of the Preface have everywhere left themselves loopholes and ways of evasion and escape. It is not possible to pin them down to any plain statement of facts concerning the sources for the hitherto unpublished plays, “the rest” of the plays.