Fair copy, in unknown hand

Fragment, on the study of history

Mentions [John] Milton; [William] Shakespeare; [George] Chapman; [?Francis] Bacon; Sir Thomas Brown; Jeremy Tailor ? Jeremy Taylor; Robert Burton; Isaac Walton [Izaak Walton]; Mabbe; [Thomas] Shelton; [Erasmus] Darwin; [Robert] Southy [Southey]; [Walter] Scott; ?Thomas Campbel [Campbell]

Incipit: I sit down the sooner...