"Eh, Will?
How we fooled 'em on _Hamlet_, eh, my boy?
Ha-ha-ha! It was the greatest joke of the century." "Well, the laugh is on you," said Doctor Johnson.

"If you wrote _Hamlet_ and didn't have the sense to acknowledge it, you present to my mind a closer resemblance to Simple Simon than to Socrates.

For my part, I don't believe you did write it, and I do believe that Shakespeare did.

I can tell that by the spelling in the original edition." "Shakespeare was my stenographer, gentlemen," said Lord Bacon.

"If you want to know the whole truth, he did write _Hamlet_, literally.