But it was at my dictation." "I deny it," said Shakespeare.

"I admit you gave me a suggestion now and then so as to keep it dull and heavy in spots, so that it would seem more like a real tragedy than a comedy punctuated with deaths, but beyond that you had nothing to do with it." "I side with Shakespeare," put in Emerson.

"I've seen his autographs, and no sane person would employ a man who wrote such a villanously bad hand as an amanuensis.

It's no use, Bacon, we know a thing or two.

I'm a New-Englander, I am." "Well," said Bacon, shrugging his shoulders as though the results of the controversy were immaterial to him, "have it so if you please.