From that guilt no hypothesis can relieve him; but it is certainly not proved, and seems, on the whole, improbable that he was so base as the concessions of his biographers would indicate.
FOOTNOTES: [24] Spence, pp.

16, 48, 137, 315.
[25] To take an obviously uncertain test, I find that in Bartlett's dictionary of familiar quotations, Shakspeare fills 70 pages; Milton, 23; Pope, 18; Wordsworth, 16; and Byron, 15.

The rest are nowhere.
[26] Roscoe's attempt at a denial was conclusively answered by Bowles in one of his pamphlets.
[27] On this subject Mr.Dilke's _Papers of a Critic_..