“4. That Milton the poet is all Homer, Euripides, and an Italian play called ‘Adam in Paradise.’
“5. That Molière is all Plautus and Cyrano de Bergerac, ‘en prend tout son bien où il le trouve.’
“6. That the same Molière never writes grammatical French.
“7. That Shakespeare is all Plautus, Horace, Holinshed, Belleforest, and others.
“8. That Corneille had not an idea he did not steal from Spain.
“9. That Scott has not an original incident in all his works.
“10. That five Italian operas are all English and Irish music.
“11. That the overture to ‘Guillaume Tell’ is all composed by Swiss shepherds.
“12. That ‘Robinson Crusoe’ is a mere theft from Woodes, Rogers, and Dampier.
“Not one of these is a greater lie, and few of them are as great lies, as to call ‘The Wandering Heir’ a plagiarism from Swift.