"Those Ancients have been faithful Imitators and wise Observers of that Nature, which is so torn and ill-represented in our Plays. They have handed down to us a perfect Resemblance of Her, which we, like ill copyers, neglecting to look on, have rendered monstrous and disfigured. "But that you may know, how much you are indebted to your Masters! and be ashamed to have so ill-requited them!

But when they left me to the last, I was convinced they were on the right track; the copyers one after another had confessed from whom they had received the matter for copying. I was the last link in the chain, and behind me stood Lorand. But the chain would snap in two, and after me they would not find Lorand. For that one thing I was prepared. At last, after long waiting, my turn came.