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In an abbreviated reference to the Bible or to the plays of Shakspere, use arabic figures instead of roman numerals to specify first, second, or third part of the same epistle, play, or book ; but put these figures before the name of the play or book. Give at least one full syllable to each abbreviation of the book, and where it is possible make the ab- breviation end with a consonant.

In making reference to Shakspere's 1 Henry VI, iii. 2. 14, the form here given is the preferred style of the Clarendon Press. Some writers prefer 1 Henry VI, in. ii. 14. The great objection to small capitals is their too frequent insignificance.

From English Past and Present, by R. C. Trench

• ¹ Guest, Hist, of English Rhythms, vol. I. p. 280.
• ² Hooker, Eccles. Pol. i. 3, 5.
• ³ Craik, On the English of Shakespeare, 2nd edit. p. 97.
• ⁴ Marsh, Manual of the English Language, Engl. edit. p. 278.

From Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire,
Murray's edition of 1881 (8 vols. 8vo)

• ¹ Orosius, I. ii. c. 19, p. 143.
• ² Heineccius, Antiquitat. Juris Roman, torn, i, p. 96.
• ³ Jornandes, de Reb. Get. c. 30, p. 654 [p. 87, ed. Lugd. B. 1597].
• ⁴ Ausonius (de Claris TMribus. p. 257-262 [No. 14]).
• ⁵ A. Thierry, Lettres sur 1'Histoire de France, p. 90.
• ⁶ Procopius, de Bell. Vandal. I. i. c. 7, p. 194 [torn. I. p. 341, ed. Bonn].