text: " We have thus in part explicitly and in part summarily documented the TONE if it may be so called of Shakspeare's Comic Theatre--being impelled so to do first of all by the duty of contradicting the most injurious and utterly groundless characterization of a critic whom we cite with the highest esteem and applause; further by the fear that the positive and unqualified averment of a high and critical authority might entrap a docile and easy reader into an unhappy _misrecollection_ of his own true and clear knowledge upon the matter