Editor^s Comment on the Golding Manuscript       2 5

son of his fable "The Wolf and the Lamb" with another, more
modern version. (See page ^2)

The manuscript has other facets which make it of great interest
to those who believe that Edward De Vere, the seventeenth Earl
of Oxford, was the author of Shakespeare's plays. It will, then,
be scrutinized not only by scholars interested in it as the work
of one of the most important of Elizabethan translators, but also
by those who are concerned with examining the facts stirrotinding
the authorship of Shakespeare's plays.