I have thus tried to show that Will Shakspere, if he had as much schooling as I suggest; and if he had four or five years of life in London, about the theatre, and, above all, had genius, might, by 1592, be the rising player-author alluded to as “Shakescene.” There remains a difficulty. By 1592 Will had not time to be guilty of _thirteen_ plays, or even of six. But I have not credited him with the authorship, between, say, 1587 and 1593, of eleven plays, namely, _Hamlet_, _Romeo and Juliet_, _Midsummer Night’s Dream_, _Titus Andronicus_, _Comedy of Errors_, _Love’s Labour’s Lost_, _King John_, the three plays of _Henry VI_, and _The Taming of the Shrew_. Mr. Greenwood {112a} cites Judge Webb for the fact that between the end of 1587 and the end of 1592 “some half-dozen Shakespearean dramas had been written,” and for Dr. Furnivall’s opinion that eleven had been composed. If I believed that half a dozen, or eleven Shakespearean plays, as we have them, had been written or composed, between 1587 and 1592, I should be obliged to say that, in my opinion, they were not composed, in these five years, by Will. Mr. Greenwood writes, “Some of the dates are disputable”; and, for himself, would omit “_Titus Andronicus_, the three plays of _Henry VI_, and possibly also _The Taming of the Shrew_, while the reference to _Hamlet_ also is, as I have elsewhere shown, of very doubtful force.” {113a} This leaves us with six of Dr. Furnivall’s list of earliest plays put out of action. The miracle is decomposing, but plays numerous enough to stagger my credulity remain. I cannot believe that the author even of the five plays before 1592–3 was the ex-butcher’s boy. Meanwhile these five plays, written by somebody before 1593, meet the reader on the threshold of Mr. Greenwood’s book {113b} with Dr. Furnivall’s eleven; and they fairly frighten him, if he be a “Stratfordian.” “Will, even Will,” says the Stratfordian, “could not have composed the five, much less the eleven, much less Mr. Edwin Reed’s thirteen ‘before 1592.’” {113c} But, at the close of his work {113d} Mr. Greenwood reviews and disbands that unlucky troop of thirteen Shakespearean plays “before 1592” as mustered by Mr. Reed, a Baconian of whom Mr. Collins wrote in terms worthy of _feu_ Mr. Bludyer of _The Tomahawk_. From the five plays left to Shakespeare’s account in p. 51, _King John_ (as we know it) is now eliminated. “I find it impossible to believe that the same man was the author of the drama” (_The Troublesome Reign of King John_) “published in 1591, and that which, so far as we know, first saw the light in the Folio of 1623 . . . Hardly a single line of the original version reappears in the _King John_ of Shakespeare.” {114a} “I think it is a mistake to endeavour to fortify the argument against him” (my Will, _toi que j’aime_), “by ascribing to Shakespeare such old plays as the _King John_ of 1591 or the primitive _Hamlet_.” {114b}