Possible Clues:

• "... forswear thin potations and to addict __ to sack": Falstaff
• It¿s emphatically that group with the manuscript for those who help shoemaker
• ''The manuscript with more than one elf?'' they said reflectively
• The only ones they have to blame?
• On reflection they should see the paper? Cobblers!
• They emphatically identified writing in article on sprites