" 'And who is Shakspeare' said Cadurcis. 'We know of him as much as we do of Homer. Did he write half the plays attributed to him?"
- Benjamin Disraeli
"All that insatiable curiosity and unwearied diligence have hitherto detected about Shakspere serves rather to disappoint and perplex us, than to furnish the slightest illustration of his character. It is not the register of his baptism, or the draft of his will, or the orthography of his name that we seek. No letter of his handwriting, no record of his conversation, no character of him drawn with any fulness by a contemporary has been produced."
- Henry Hallam, 1837
Othello 3.3.212: "…could give out such seeming to seel her father's eyes up, close as oak, He thought twas' witchcraft .."
If it [praise] be from the common people, it is commonly false and naught; and rather followeth vain persons than virtuous. For the common people understand not many ecxellent virtues. But of the highest virtues they have no sense or perceiving at all. But if persons of quality and judgment concur then it is (as the Scripture saith), It filleth all round about, and will not easily away.
-F. Bacon, Essay "Of Praise"
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