AT the first performance of Douglas, when Young Norval was busily employed giving out one of his rodomontading speeches, a canny Scot, who had been observed to grow more and more excited as the piece progressed, unable longer to contain his feelings, called out with evident pride, `Whaur's yer Wully Shakspere noo!'

( For earlier or alternative versions of this celebrated anecdote, see Macdonald Emslie, `Home's Douglas and Wully Shakespeare', Studies in Scottish Literature (October 1964), ii. 128-129.)