During his mastership, except for the first two years, Bentley continuously pursued his studies, although he did not publish much. In 1709 he contributed a critical appendix to John Davies's edition of Cicero's "Tusculan Disputations". In the following year, he published his emendations on the "Plutus" and "Nubes" of Aristophanes, and on the fragments of Menander and Philemon. He published the last work under the pen name of "Phileleutherus Lipsiensis." He used it again two years later in his "Remarks on a late Discourse of Freethinking", a reply to Anthony Collins the deist. The university thanked him for this work and its support of the Anglican Church and clergy.