“ I must apologise for intruding in the field of Shakespearian scholarship with so little equipment. I do not propose to follow Mr. Ernest Law or Mrs. Stopes through the labyrinth of dramatic representations. ”

“ It has; but not as I imagined. I continued my investigations, expecting, I will own, to pin another forgery upon Payne Collier.
I had by this time all the nuances of the hand of the Malone Scrap at my fingers’ ends. I was looking at the letters of Sir William Musgrave, of the Audit Office, to which the Books belonged, when my attention was drawn to the marked similarity of two characteristics, the small n’s (n.) with a straight tail and the small d’s () curved with a curl at the top (see facsimiles) . ”

“ I have not learned that excess of modesty was characteristic of Gildon so that he would be apt to include himself among inferior writers, and I am unwilling to believe that he would treat a man with insolent contempt, as Farquhar is treated in this book, and accept from him an Epilogue for his play The Patriot in the following year. ”