Excerpt from Charlecote, or the Trial of William Shakespeare E are in a strait to frame an excuse for what may seem to some an act of literary vandalism. When Walter Sav age Landor wrote his Cita tion of William Shakespeare, he gave to English literature one of its masterpieces. Who so addeth to or taketh away from such a work committeth a literary sin. The State protects its citizen who conceives a fancyand develops it to a practical invention. Under certain con ditions the State permits ah other to utilize the prior inven tion when a combination in which it is used is marked and differing. We can only creep under this protecting wing and justify ourselves in its lati tude. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.