"Why, I've lived at Stratford, man and boy, seventy years, and of course I know." "Of course," said Janet.
"But a Member of Parliament says it was Bacon," Horace persisted.
"What's he Member for ?" the old man asked.

"Eh?
Not for Stratford-on-Avon, I'll be bound." "I don't know," said Horace, who had nothing else to say.
"Take my advice," the old man replied, "and don't believe anyone who says that Shakespeare wanted help.

Look at that brow!" "But he isn't like a swan, is he ?" Gregory asked.
"Of course not," said the old man.

"That's poetry.

If he had been like a swan, it wouldn't have been poetry to call him one." Gregory pondered for a little while.