I’ll found a fresh Society, call’d “New,”
And try if I can’t, by much reading hard,
Impart “new readings” to th’ “Immortal Bard,”
Shifting the false lights from the dazzling true—
Though I for one, find them but very few!—
And thus prove Shakespeare’s after all a myth,
And muff!—akin to Jones, or Brown, or Smith.”
Furnivallos having with the aid of Tupperius founded the Society, a meeting is held, at which Furnivallos takes the chair, and makes a speech, in which he asserts—
“Nothing that Shakespeare wrote, came from his head,
Which was a Warehouse stored with stolen goods,—