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quarreling, the warmth of whose crackling fires
has long since smouldered out, to
give place (in these latter days) to active
discussion of verse and rhyme tests, as showing
the time order of the writing of the
dramas, with discussion on the
Baconian and other alleged authorships of both
plays and sonnets - make the bulk
if not the worth of this mass of -
- I was going to say - literature - but will
say mass of paper and printing.

It seems - to me - to throw
more light on human nature -
more light on literary, poetic and
dramatic psychology, than it does
on Shakespears' life or work, so
that, any would be student, with one good
edition of the plays & sonnets, a
life - say by Halliwell Phillips or Fleay,
and a modern Concordance or
Lexicon, by either Clark, Schmidt or

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