Meanwhile, if we take Chettle to have been a strict grammarian, by his words—“a letter, written to divers play-makers, is offensively by one or two of them taken,” Will is excluded; the letter was most assuredly not written to _him_. But I, whose mind is not legal, am not certain that Chettle does not mean that the letter, written to divers play-makers, was by one or two makers of plays offensively taken. This opinion seems the less improbable, as the person to whom Chettle is most apologetic excels in a quality or profession, which is contrasted with, and is not identical with, “his facetious grace in writing”—a _parergon_, or “ bye-work,” in his case. Whoever this person was, he certainly was not Marlowe, Peele, Lodge, or Nash. We must look for some other person who had a profession, and also was reported to have facetious grace in writing. If Chettle is to be held tight to grammar, Greene referred to some one unknown, some one who wrote for the stage, but had another profession. If Chettle is not to be thus tautly construed, I confess that to myself he seems to have had Shakspere, even Will, in his mind. For Will in 1592 had “a quality which he professed,” that of an actor; and also (I conceive) was reported to have “ facetious grace in writing.” But other gentlemen may have combined these attributes; wherefore I lay no stress on the statements of Chettle, as if they referred to our Will Shakspere. FOOTNOTES {0a} E. J. Castle, _Shakespeare_, _Bacon_, _Jonson_, _and Greene_, pp. 194–195. {0b} _The Shakespeare Problem Restated_, p. 145. {0c} _The Shakespeare Problem Restated_, p. 340. {0d} _The Shakespeare Problem Restated_, pp. 340, 341. {0e} _In Re Shakespeare_, p. 54. {0f} _The Shakespeare Problem Restated_, p. 341. {0g} _Ibid._, p. 470. {0h} _The Shakespeare Problem Restated_, p. 339. {0i} _The Vindicators of Shakespeare_, pp. 115–116. {0j} _Ibid._, p. 49. {0k} _The Vindicators of Shakespeare_, p. 14. {4a} _Francis Bacon Wrote Shakespeare_. By H. Crouch-Batchelor, 1912. {7a} _The Shakespere Problem Restated_, p. 293. {11a} _The Shakespeare Problem Restated_, pp. 31–37. {13a} _The Shakespeare Problem Restated_, pp. 36–37. {16a} _Tue Shakespeare Problem Restated_, p. 20. {17a} _The Shakespeare Problem Restated_, pp. 47–48. {17b} _Ibid._, pp. 54–55. {17c} _Ibid._, p. 54. {17d} _Ibid._, p. 56. {17e} _Ibid._, p. 59. {17f} _Ibid._, p. 62. {17g} _Ibid._, p. 193. {18a} See his _Vindicators of Shakespeare_, p. 210. {19a} _Vindicators_, p. 187. {19b} _The Shakespeare Problem Restated_, p. 223. {21a} _In Re Shakespeare_, p. 54. {22a} In a brief note of two pages (_Cornhill Magazine_, November 1911) he makes such reply as the space permits to a paper of my own, “Shakespeare or X?” in the September number. With my goodwill he might have written thirty-two pages to my sixteen, but I am not the Editor, and never heard of Mr. Greenwood’s note till May 1912.