Excerpt from The Plays and Poems of Shakespeare, Vol. 5 of 15: With One Hundred and Seventy Illustrations, From Designs by Eminent Artists A supposed allusion to the fanaticism of the puritans induced Malone to assign the date of 1606 to the com position of this play but the many passages of rhyme scattered throughout seem to mark it as an earlier production. In 1598 Meres refers to a play of Shak speare, called Love's Labor Wonne, which very accu rately applies to this, but to no other of our author's productions: we have reason therefore to conclude that it was intended as a counter-title to Love's Labor's Lost and that the present proverbial appel lation was suggested in consequence of the adage itself being found in the body of the play. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.