40. _Scriptor_, etc. _Ars poetica_, 120.

41. _The Menechmi._ Dennis’s “vehement suspicion” is justified. See above,

note on p. 9.

_Ben Johnson_, “small Latin and less Greek” (_Verses to the Memory of

Shakespeare_).

_Milton_, _L’Allegro_, 133: “Or sweetest Shakespeare, Fancy’s child.” The

same misquotation occurs in Sewell’s preface, 1725.

_Dryden_, _Essay of Dramatic Poesy_: “Those who accuse him to have wanted

learning give him the greater commendation” (ed. W. P. Ker, i., p. 80).

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