But it is not to be a display of that sort.

We mean nothing but a little amusement among ourselves, just to vary the scene, and exercise our powers in something new.

We want no audience, no publicity.

We may be trusted, I think, in chusing some play most perfectly unexceptionable; and I can conceive no greater harm or danger to any of us in conversing in the elegant written language of some respectable author than in chattering in words of our own.

I have no fears and no scruples.