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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. 
 
 Frontispiece — Poktrait of Shakespeare. 
 
 Title Page — Bust from Stratford Church, ahd 
 
 Coat of Arms. 
 Stratford Church, and the Aton. 
 Shakespeare's House in Henlet Street. 
 l^ooM IN WHICH Shakespeare was Born. 
 Anne Hathaway's Cottage at Shottert. 
 Chai(i,icote. 
 Kenilworth Castle. 
 The Globe' Theatre. 
 Shakespeare presenting Copy op his Plats to 
 
 Queen Elizabeth. 
 The Tabard Inn, Southwaek. 
 Portrait of Richard Burbage. 
 Portrait of Nathaniel Pield. 
 Portrait of Richard Perkins. 
 Portrait of Judge Gascoigne. 
 Portrait of Sir John Palstaff. 
 Portraits of Dame Quickly and Palstaff. 
 Shakespeare Relic. 
 
 Plan of Old Boar's Head Tavern, and Locality. 
 Plan of Boar's Head, and Site of the Old Priory. 
 Hekne's Oak. 
 
 Portrait of Edward Alleyn. 
 Monument in Stratford Church. 
 Scene from Hamlet. ' 
 
 Scene from the Tempest. 
 Scene from King Henry the Fourth. 
 Scene from Midsummer Night's Dream. 
 Scene from Much ado About Nothing. 
 
ALL AEOUT SHAXESPEAEE. 
 
 For the first time in history, England is about to commemorate 
 the birth of a grand national poet — a graceful return, it will 
 be allowed, on the part of the age of Victoria, for the rich 
 legacy bequeathed to it by the age of Elizabeth — not that 
 Englishmen are insensible to the claims of the great inspired, 
 but that all former attempts to wreathe, the brow of the 
 Stratford woolstapler's son, have partaken, more or less, of a 
 local character, and been confined to the town in which he 
 was born and buried. 
 
 The English have ever had a passion for dining in public, 
 on all possible occasions, great or small; it may well be 
 understood, therefore, that our greatest poet's birthday could 
 not pass over without recognition by those who assemble to 
 feast, and make speeches over their wine : consequently, there 
 have been anniversary dinners to his memory in taverns and 
 public rooms — by stray knots of men in spots and places far 
 apart, in time, as in Ibcality — by literary clubs in Manchester, 
 Birmingham, Liverpool,, and other large towns; by similar 
 societies in London, so far back as the Shakesperian dinners 
 at the Old Boar's Head, Eastcheap, to that more recent; one of 
 the Urban Club at St. John's Gate, Clerkenwell, where the 
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 programme, but subsequently transferred to the boards of 
 old Drury, where David turned it to capital account. 
 
 The next festival was projected by the Stratford Shakes- 
 peare Club, and was held in 1827, partaking very much of 
 the character of its predecessor; and in the year 1830, the 
 same club (designing to make these celebrations triennial, 
 after the fashion of the. Lady Godiva procession, in the neigh- 
 bouring city of Coventry) produced a third affair of the kind, 
 including a theatrical pageant, which extended over four days. 
 No further public demonstrations in honour of the Bard of 
 Avon occurred until April 23rd, 1853, when a party of en- 
 thusiastic Shakesperians from Birmingham commemorated the 
 289th anniversary of the supposed day of the poet's birth as 
 reverent pilgrims to a sacred shrine. 
 
 We say the supposed day of his birth, for the register in 
 Stratford Church, which runs thus, "April 26th, 1564, 
 Gulielmus fiUiug Johannes Shakespeare," is that of baptism, 
 not birth, although the 23rd of April, the festival of the 
 patron saint of England, has come by common consent to be 
 regarded as that on which he first drew breath at the old 
 house in Henley-street, then a substantial dwelling, but some 
 years afterwards converted into two separate tenements, as 
 now represented in all prints — one half generally showing as 
 a butcher's shop. 
 
 It is as Washington Irving truly describes it, a small, 
 mean-looking edifice, of plaster and wood — a true nestling- 
 place for genius, which seems to delight in hatching its 
 oiFspring in bye-corners. The walls of its meagre chambers 
 are covered with names and inscriptions in every language, 
 being the silent testimony to the memory and genius of the 
 Poet, of those who have made a pilgrimage to his shrine. 
 Shakespeare's father, in 1574, gave £40 for this and another 
 house. On his death, they became the property of his eldest 
 son, William, who bequeathed them, in turn, to his sister. 
 
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 Joan Hart, "for the term of her natural life."- At her 
 demise, which took place in 1646, the tenements came into 
 the possession of Lady Barnard, who left them to the sons of 
 Joan Shakespeare Hart. In 1806, the houses were sold for 
 £250; and subsequently, that in which the poet was born, 
 was exhibited by one Mary Hornby, a descendant of the 
 family, who rented it in the first instance at £10; but the 
 
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 proprietor, finding the number of visitors rapidly increasing, 
 and a growing interest taken in the dear old pile, sought 
 occasion to raise the rent to £40, a sum much too large for 
 Dame Hornby to pay. She thereupon left it, not without a 
 sigh, for she had become greatly attached to the place, nor 
 without carrying with her all those relics described by the 
 author of " Bracebridge Hall," in his inimitable " Sketch 
 Book." The house was, however, kept on as an exhibition, 
 until the 16th of September, 1847, when it was put up for 
 sale by the well-known " George Robins of auction renown." 
 Mr. Peter Cunningham, on behalf of a committee formed in 
 London, for the purpose of securing its purchase, olFered 
 
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 £3,000 for it, and at that price it became the property of the 
 nation for all time to come. 
 
 It teaches a deep and solemn lesson of humility, to reflect 
 that, not in the halls of the learned, or in the mansions of the 
 great, but in this qWil; Ipw-frrnwtdj^M-j before which kings 
 have bowed themselves, the foremost Englishman was born; 
 that not in proud capitals, or imperial cities, but in a quiet 
 country town, now the envy of the world, the mightiest in- 
 tellect of Europe was nurtured. Here, in addition to the 
 birthplace, purchased and preserved by subscriptions from 
 every quarter of the globe, is the rude wayside school where 
 he acquired his " little Latin and less Greek ;'' here, too, may 
 be seen New-place — the site of his residence, after his return 
 from the applause of courts to the tranquil meadows watered 
 by his favourite stream — thei spots where the mulberry, 
 planted by his own hand, and the old Gospel elm grew — the 
 pleasant village of Shottery, where he wooed and won his 
 wife, Anne Hathaway; and lastly, the grand old church 
 where " after life's fitful fever he sleeps well." The town, the 
 neighbourhood, and all connected with it, literally breathes 
 of our poet in language eloquent, albeit inaudible. 
 
 During the poet's early days, his father, Master John 
 Shakespeare, was a prosperous woolstapler; but, the trade of 
 the district decaying, his fortune declined, and his son William 
 was in consequence withdrawn from school, to render assis- 
 tance at home to his parent, who had now recourse to the 
 business of a butcher. 
 
 It was not long, however, before courtship interfered with 
 "calf-killing," as being more in unison with young Will 
 Shakespeare's feelings and character. The extreme, though 
 mature beauty of Anne Hathaway (for she was eight years 
 his senior), captivated his youthful fancy, and we can readily 
 picture him to ourselves, " in hi^ habit as he lived," traversing 
 " many a time and oft " with impatient feet, the short mile 
 
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 between Stratford and Shottery-, to sit beside the fair ownw 
 of the " middle cottage of the three,'' on the " courting stool," 
 or chair, since removed by the hand of the relic hunter. 
 
 He " married in haste," at the unripe age of eighteen, and 
 it is said, though with scant reason, that he " repented at 
 leisure." 
 
 In the following year, " unto him a child was born," his 
 dayghter Susannah ; and in eighteen months afterwards, 
 followed a twin boy and girl, Hammet and Judith, so that ere 
 inanhood arrived, Shakespeare had a wife and three children 
 to provide for; and to do this he became a schoolmaster. 
 
 ANNE HATHAWATS COTTAGE AT SHOTTERT. 
 
 It was about this time that he is said to have '' fallen into 
 ill-company," and " dissolute habits,'" of which, his alleged . 
 drinking bout at Bidford, his drnukfen sleep under the road- 
 side crab-tree, and his memorable fracas with Sir Thomas 
 
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 Lucy, of Charlicote, were but the ripe fruits. But the 
 Apostle of Temperance, it must be remembered, had not then 
 arisen. Excess was scarcely a crime ; and the game-laws did 
 not exist until the Puritan magistrate, whom Shakespeare has 
 spitted for ever on the point of his pen, pressed forward to 
 frame them. 
 
 He who in his writings has shown such a wondrous love of 
 the great principles of justice, was just the man above all 
 others to resist the infringement of a public right; precisely 
 as Sir Thomas Lucy was the man above all others to resent 
 the infringement of a private one.. In the spirit of "bold 
 Eobin Hood, the forester good," Shakespeare is said to have 
 lent a hand in carrying off a head of deer. Detection fol- 
 lowed — the man was prosecuted, and the poet made. Shake- 
 speare retaliated at the time, in the well-known doggerel (the 
 authenticity of which is questioned however) in which he 
 sings : — 
 
 " If Lupy is Lowsie, as some volke miscall it, 
 Siuge Lowsie Lacy whatever befall it:" 
 
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 But he, also,, retaliated agaia more severely many years after- 
 wards, ■when he drew with his inimitable pen the life-like 
 portrait of Justice Shallow. 
 
 Whether Shakespeare " ran his native town " from perse- 
 cution abroad, or strife and poverty at home, is uncertain; 
 but it is certain that, as Aubrey states, " this William being 
 naturally inclined to poetry and acting, came to London." 
 He is supposed, when not more than seven years of age, to 
 have beheld a play in dumb show, entitled, " The Cradle of 
 Security;" when only eleven, the Earl of Leicester enter- 
 tained " Good Queen Bess," at his sumptuous palace at Keuil- 
 worth; and Shakespeare's sire, then a substantial yeoman. 
 
 KENILWOETH CASTLE. 
 
 and an Alderman of Stratford, may be assumed to have taken 
 his little Will to witness the pageant. Three distinct com- 
 panies of players had, moreover, visited Stratford, during his 
 
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 youth — and ,as three of these players — Heminge, Burbage, 
 and Green, were Warwickshire, if not Stratford, men, there 
 was no lack of inducement to abandon the life of a rustic, 
 and cast his lot with them. 
 
 Arrived in " town," he appears to have at once attached 
 himself, in a curious capacity, to the Globe and Blaokfriars 
 theatres. At first, if tradition be true, he was but a hanger- 
 on at the theatre door, as horse-boy; then call-boy; but after 
 his introduction within the play-house by one or other of the 
 players already referred to, his own talents secured his rapid 
 progress — first as an actor, then as a playwright. 
 
 ■ Clinic 
 
 THE GLOBE THEATRE. 
 
 The Queen, despite the opposition of the Puritans, had 
 granted license to the players to exercise their art, and from^ 
 that time the number of theatres increased. The Globe, 
 
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 Bankside, and Blackfriars theatres, were, all the property of 
 the company which Shakespeare joined, and by whom his 
 dramas were represented. The Globe was a wooden building, 
 hexagonal in form, partially roofed only, and thatched with 
 rushes. This was the summer theatre for day perforiiiances, 
 which commenced at three o'clock in the afternoon. It was 
 called the " Globe " from its sign, which was a figiye of 
 Atlas supporting the globe, under which was written " Totus 
 niundus agit histrionem;" (All the world acts a play). This 
 theatre was burned down on St. Peter's Day, June 29, 1618, 
 through a somewhat remarkable accident. During the per- 
 formance of a play called All is True, King Henry VIII. was 
 represented as giving a masque at Cardinal Wolsey's house, 
 and during its progress, on the entrance of the King, cannons 
 were fired off. Unfortunately, the paper or wadding of one 
 of these lodged on the dry roof of reeds, and being unobserved 
 by either actors or spectators, both intent on the performance, 
 from a smoke it kindled to a flame, and circled the place like 
 a train, consuming the old wooden edifice in less than an hour. 
 It is worthy of note, that notwithstanding the crowded state 
 of the theatre, and the narrow doors, no person was injured; 
 one man's nether garments certainly were set on fire, but a 
 bottle of ale is said to have done duty as a fire engine, and 
 saved the man's skin. Had people more presence of mincf in 
 those days than in these? 
 
 Ben Jonson is supposed to have been present at the fire. 
 The Blackfriars Tbeatre (situated near the present Apothe- 
 caries' Hall, the site still preserved as Playhouse-yard), 
 was entirely covered in, and the performances took place by 
 candle-light. The stage, at that time, was little more than a 
 rude platform, scenes and properties being few and simple; 
 the actor then had no aid from " sensational " effects, nor, 
 on the other hand, was his art subordinated to stage up- 
 holstery. The more distinguished guests were accommodated 
 
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 ■with seats on the stage, which was strewn with rushes, while 
 the ordinary spectators sat in a gallery arpund the area, or 
 stood on the ground beneath ; hence the term "groundlings," 
 as used by Hamlet, when he advises the players not to 
 "tear a passion to tatters, to split the ears of the ground- 
 lings." Education had not in Shakespeare's time a very 
 wide range; the nobility, gentry, and some .few of the 
 upper-class tradespeople might have had instruction of one 
 kind or other, but to the mass of the people the very 
 alphabet was a mystery; so that the "groundlings" 
 were intellectually far beneath the "gods" of even our 
 minor theatres. No wonder, then, that these rude mobs 
 would frequently clamour and riot when buiFoonery, ribaldry, 
 or rant were not sufficiently pungent for their strong 
 palates, and call for what plays they pleased; compelling the 
 actors to alter the programme at biddirjg. It not unfrequently 
 happened, on such occasions, that swords and starves were 
 drawn, and blood shed, or that the rioters, when satiated with 
 the horrors or obscenity they had importunately demanded in 
 the theatre, rushed to the Bear Garden, on Bankside, to end 
 the day with bear-baiting or worse. The Phoenix Theatre, 
 in Drury-lane, was pulled down by just such a mob in the 
 reign of James I. 
 
 It was customary, on days of performance, to hoist a flag 
 on the front of a theatre. The prices of admission were, to 
 the best places, a shilling ; to the ground (or, as we moderns 
 say, the "promenade"), a penny or two pence; but these 
 charges were not so low as they sound to our ears, money 
 having a different relative value. The critics sat with the 
 nobles on the stage, and were furnished with pipes and 
 tobacco. The 'curtain (generally suspended from the edge of 
 the balcony or gallery) was not rolled up, but drawn back on 
 each side, not to reveal scenes, but admit the players to the 
 open platform. The deficiency of scenes, there being seldom 
 
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 more than one, if any, was supplied by the names of places 
 being written on a moveable board, and placed conspicuously 
 at the back of the stage; for instance, a garden, a ship, 
 Thebes, Eome, or Venice, as the case might be. The stage 
 was lighted by candles in branches, as in churches, and also 
 by footlights as now. Before the performance commenced, 
 three flourishes, or pieces of music, were played; and music 
 was' likewise played between the acts, the instruments being 
 chiefly trumpets, cornets, and hautboys. Wigs and masks 
 formed part of the stage properties, and the female parts for 
 the first hundred years were represented by young men. 
 
 The audience, before the entrance of the actors, amused 
 themselves with reading or playing at cards; while others 
 drank ale or smoked tobacco, as in the singing saloons now. 
 
 For some time plays were acted on Sundays only; after 
 1 579, they were acted on Sundays and other days indis- 
 criminately. 
 
 The Belle Sauvage Yard, Ludgate-hill, and the Old 
 Tabard, Southwark, were among the most famous of the 
 many Inn-yard theatres. We give an illustration of the 
 latter celebrated hostelry, the rendezvous of Chaucer's 
 Canterbury Pilgrims, which even now exists intact. 
 
 Although there were several other theatres in London in 
 Shakespeare's time, the Fortune, in Whitecross-street, and 
 the Red Bull, Clerkenwell, alone deserve mention — the one as 
 the oldest of English playhouses — the other as the only one 
 whose site now retains a temple dedicated to the dramatic 
 muse — viz., that of Sadler's Wells. 
 
 The Fortune was originally appointed for the nursery of the 
 children of Henry VIII., and afterwards converted into a 
 theatre, and partially rebuilt by Alleyn the player, the 
 founder of Dulwich College, who was also proprietor of the 
 Bear Garden. It was originally a round brick building, of 
 vast dimensions, as may be understood when it was advertised 
 
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 for sale as a space "for twenty-three tenements with gardens, 
 and a street cut through." This theatre shared the fate o£ 
 the Globe, being burned down to the ground in two hours one 
 Sunday night in December, 1621, through some negligence 
 with a candle, and all the books, dresses, and other properties 
 of the players consumed: whereby it is said — "These poore 
 companions are quite. undone." 
 
 Sadlers' Wells, the scion of the Red Bull Theatre, has not 
 only conserved the site of a stage where Shakespeare trod, but 
 
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 preserved a home for the king of dramatists, a Cordelia who 
 opened her tent to him when the Goneril and Regan of 
 Drury-lane and. Go vent-garden drove him away. Under the 
 regime of Mr. Phelps, and later of Miss Marriott, Shakespeare 
 
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 has reigned here undisputed, where, though the throne be 
 small, his subjects are many and loyal. 
 
 As an actor Shakespeare was not great. Whether his 
 lameness, or his modesty, or distaste, restrained him from 
 assuming any prominent part, is a matter of question. He 
 is known to haye played the Ghost in " Hamlet," but no 
 principal character. There was no lack, however, of good 
 performers to sustain the leading parts: Richard Burbage, 
 
 KICj^ARD BURBAGE. 
 
 John Heminge, Augustine PhiUips, William Kemp (the 
 original Dogberry), Henry Condell, William Sly, Richard 
 Cowley; John Lowin, Alexander Cooke (the heroine of the 
 stage), Robert Armin, Nathaniel Field, Joseph Taylor (in- 
 structed to^ pUy Hamlet by Shakespeare), and the lesser 
 lights, such as, Laurence Fletcher, Edmond Shakespeare (the 
 poet's brother), Thomas Pope, George -Bryan, Samuel Cross, 
 Samuel Gilbume, William Ostler, John Underwood, Nicholas 
 Tooley, William Ecclestone, Robert Benfield, Robert Goughe, 
 Richard Robinson, John Shancke, Richard Perkins, and John 
 Rice, were all actors in Shakespeare's, dramas. 
 
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 Had - our poet been an actor only, he would never have 
 become opulent, and -been enabled, as he was, to go down to 
 Stratford once every year,' to visit hin family, keep warm old 
 friendships and associations, and enjoy the perfumed air and 
 natural beauties of the place. As an author, writing for 
 bread, and for the necessities of the' stage, when it was very 
 different to what it now is, and as a theatrical 'proprietor, he 
 
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 in time acquired, not merely a handsome competency, but the 
 countenance, the friendship, and th? esteem of powerful 
 patrons. The Earl of Southampton lavished innumerable 
 favours upon him, dnd Queen Elizabeth laid herself out to 
 pay tribute to the nobility of his nature and his genius. It 
 was at her Majesty's express desir6 that he wrote the " Merry 
 Wives of Windsor," in order to intlroduoe Sir John Falstaff in 
 the character, not of a hero, but of a lover ; and not content 
 with seeing his plays enacted, she took especial delight in 
 inviting him to. Court, to read them before her, justly con- 
 ceiving Shakespeare himself to be the fittest exponent of his 
 
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 own matchless creations. Shakespeare was not ungrateful for 
 this mark of royal preference, which he acknowledged by 
 begging the Queen's gracious acceptance of a copy of his 
 works. 
 
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 Another instance of the high estimation in which our dra- 
 matist was held by royalty occurs in an anecdote related of 
 him on good authority. Queen Elizabeth used frequently, as 
 was the custom of personages of high rank at that period, to 
 'appear upon the stage before the audience, or to sit at the 
 back of the stage while the performance was going on. 
 One evening, when Shakespeare himself was personating the 
 part of a king, the audience became aware of Her Majesty's 
 being in the theatre, and testified their appreciation of the 
 presence of their sovereign in the usual manner. The Queen 
 thereupon crossed the stage while he was perfdrttiing, and on 
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 courteously toward the poet, who, however, appeared so en- 
 grossed in the rendering of his part, as not to heed the honour 
 paid him by his royal mistress. Presently the Queen caught his 
 eye, and moved again, but still the actor would not throw off 
 his assumed character; this, it appears, made Her Majesty 
 persist in endeavouring to secure a public acknowledgment of 
 her condescension. Accordingly, as he was about to make 
 his exit, she stepped before him, dropped her glove, and re- 
 ' crossed the stage. This was too strong an intimation of the 
 Queen's desire, to be left unnoticed. So, upon finishing his 
 speech, he picked up the glove, and so aptly delivered the fol- 
 lowing impromptu lines, that they seemed to belong to his part : 
 
 " And though now hent on this high embassy, 
 Yet stoop we to take up our cousin's glove." 
 
 He thereupon walked off the stage, and presented the glove to 
 the Queen, who, equally pleased with his wit and his gallantry, 
 warmly complimented him on his appropriate behaviour 
 under such novel and trying circumstances. 
 
 The genial disposition of our bard naturally inclined him 
 to good fellowship ; and he might frequently be found at the 
 Mermaid Tavern, in Friday-street, in company with Ben 
 Jonson (his bosom friend), Beaumont, Fletcher, Siglden, 
 Carew, Myddleton, Dekker, Cotton, Martin, Donnie, and 
 other choice spirits, at once, the lustre and the pride of that 
 glorious Elizabethan epoch. Here he would engage in con- 
 flicts of wit with his great rival, drawing forth the apt and 
 felicitous allusion of Fuller, who compares Shakespeare to an 
 English man-of-war, and Jonson to a Spanish galleon. 
 
 " Master Jonson,- like the latter, was built far higher in 
 learning, solid but slow in his performances. Shakespeare, 
 like the former, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could 
 turn with all tides, tack about, and take advantage of all 
 winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention ; " a com- 
 
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 parison whose point lay in the then recent defeat of the 
 Spanish Armada. 
 
 It has been objected that the writers of this era were 
 tavern-haunting revellers, but the poet cannot write a great 
 play if he shut himself from the world in philosophic reverie ; 
 he must open his soul to the ever-changing influences of a 
 life of action, the'spirits of the market-place and forum must 
 be- no less powerful over his thoughts than the spirits of the 
 cavern. They were no mere dreamers who wrote the glorious 
 plays of the Elizabethan time. Strong- thinking, full-passioned 
 men, they lived, many of them, wild, irregular lives, too fond, 
 may be, of bright eyes, bright wine, and the rattle of the 
 dice, and some of them died sad, unhopeful deaths ; but they 
 were, nevertheless, brave, loving spirits, and the thoughts 
 which flooded their souls they poured out to other men in 
 nervous words which it strengthens a man's mind to read. 
 The man of science or philosophy, may shut himself up 
 amid musty tomes and strange apparatus, but he who would 
 paint humanity, must dip his brushes in the stream of life 
 wheresoever it may flow. 
 
 Of the three other taverns (the Boar's Head, the Falcon, 
 and the Devil), made famous by their connection with Shake- 
 speare and his friends, the Old Boar's Head in Eastcheap is 
 the most conspicuous. The centre of a locality specially 
 devoted to feasting and revelry, where "the cookes cried hot 
 ribbes of beef rosted, pies well baked, and other victuals;" 
 its sign was most aptly chosen, since here, too, was the 
 " cooke's dwelling," where Prince Henry and his brothers 
 John and Thomas, at 3 o'clock in the morning (a more dis- 
 creditable hour then than even now), created that riot which 
 resulted in the interference of the mayor and sheriffs, the final 
 discomfiture of the princes before Judge Gascoigne, and the 
 merited censure .of their kingly sire. What a lesson for 
 moflem magistrates! 
 
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 Though it was at the Mermaid in Friday-street assembled 
 the club of which Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont, 
 Fletcher, Selden, Cotton, Carew, Martin, Donne, and other 
 celebrities of the day were members, and between whom 
 
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 arose those pleasant " wit combats " to which Fuller alludes; 
 yet, it is the Boar's Head which our poet has been pleased to 
 single out as the rendezvous of Sir John Falstaff, that rol- 
 licking sea of humour, and his roystering companions, pro- 
 bably from no other motive than to point his satire against 
 the Sir John Falstaff who owned the " Boar's Head " in 
 High-street, Southwark, demised by him to Magdalen College, 
 Oxford. Modem commentators dispute the identity of this 
 hero of the French Wars with Shakespeare's inimitable 
 braggart; but might it not be an " inhabitant " of Southwark, 
 not "Stratford," with whom Shakespeare is said to have dis- 
 puted about some property adjoining his own, and whose 
 
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 portrait he has drawn so wondrously? and if so, the same 
 spirit of resentment which pinned immortal obloquy to Sir 
 Thomas Lucy's sleeve, would, naturally enough, prompt the 
 severe retaliation of handing down to future time a caricature 
 of this man, were he thrice three times a hero, and not, as is 
 possible, sunk into a bully in his dotage. 
 
 SIR JOHN FALSTAFF. 
 
 It is on record, that "William of Wickham came from' 
 Windsor, while he was surveyor of the alterations and addi- 
 tions to the Castle, to meet John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster 
 at the Boar's Head, but no mention is made of either host or 
 hostess, until Shakespeare placed the "gentlewoman named 
 
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 Dame Quickly'.' in juxtaposition with Sir John Falstaff. 
 This Dame Quickly, according to Goldsmith, became en- 
 tangled in the meshes of an artful prior of a neighbouring 
 convent, and after serving his purposes, and resigning the 
 tavern to his uses for years, in revenge for some real or 
 imaginary slight, he sent her and her women to the house of 
 
 DAHE QUICKLY AKD FALSTAFF. 
 
 correction, where she was unhappily whipped to death. The 
 tavern then became a monastic offshoot of the convent of this 
 dissolute prior, who was, in turn, burnt for sorcery, and it 
 afterwards passed into the hands of a cast-off mistress of the 
 King, under whose management it grew into great repute, 
 drunkenness being the vice of the age. Gaming, in course of 
 
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 time, followed on the heels of drunkenness, and in one of the 
 wide-chimnied, quaintly-carved rooms of this very tavern, 
 with stained glass windows emblazoned with escutcheons, did 
 the last Henry play away and lose the four great bells of 
 Old St. Paul's, and the image of the saint which stood on the 
 top of the spire, to Sir Miles Partridge, who took them down 
 the following day, and sold them by auction. The last 
 hostess of note was Jane Rouse— one from the lower ranks of 
 life — who, being frugal and complaisant, acquired a moderate 
 fortune. As late would have it, however, she could not 
 
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 refrain from quarrelling with a sanctimonious neighbour, who 
 retaliated by accusing her of witchcraft. She was thereupon • 
 taken from her own bar to the bar of the Old Bailey, con- 
 demned and e."secuted. 
 
 The original building was of wood, with one storey pro- 
 jecting over another, ornamented with vast Gothic vvindows, 
 stained with coats of arms. At the doorway flourished a 
 large vine growing upon supporters, and over it were suspended 
 a blue Boar, a Bacchus, a tun, and a bunch of grapes. 
 The Great Fire of 1666, which began in Pudding-lane, close 
 by, consumed this edifice; but a Boar's Head with silver 
 
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 PLAN OP OLD BOAK'S HEAD TAVERN, AND LOCALITY. 
 
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 New lisJi Street JUll 
 
 PLAN OP BOABS HEAD AND SITE OP THE OLD PRIORT. 
 
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 tusks, which had hung in one of the rooms, fell down with 
 the ruins of the house, whence it was removed to Whitechapel 
 Mount, where, many years after, it was discovered and identified 
 with its former position. In two years, a second Boar's Head 
 Tavern sprung up on the site of the old one, a fact attested by 
 a Boar's Head carved in stone, with the initials of the land- 
 lord J. T., and the date 1668 cut therein, which is now to be 
 seen in the Guildhall Library. Maitland in 1730, mentions the 
 Boar's Head as the chief tavern in London at that period. 
 
 Li 1834, Mr. Kemp, T.S A., exhibited before the Society 
 of Antiquaries, a carved oak figure of Sir John Falstaff, in 
 the costume of the 16th century. It had supported an orna- 
 mental bracket over one side of the door of the Boar's Head, 
 a figure of Prince Henry sustaining that on the other. This 
 carving belonged to a Mr. Shelton, brazier, Great Eastcheap, 
 whose ancestors had lived in the same house ever since the 
 Great Fire. Mr. Shelton remembered the last grand Shake- 
 sperian Dinner at the Boar's Head. This was about 1784, 
 and much honest enthusiasm is said to have prevailed on the 
 occasion. At a public house in Miles-lane was long pre- 
 served a tobacco box, with a painting of the original Boar's 
 Head Tavern on the lid. It was considered a great curiosity 
 and much sought after. 
 
 The accompanying two plans of the Old Boar's Head, and 
 the general locality at the time we are Speaking of, may be 
 interesting to our readers. 
 
 The site of the old tavern itself is, as nearly as can be 
 ascertained, the present King William Statue. 
 
 The pen of Shakespeare consecrates all it sketches; and 
 thus. Heme's Oak, in the Home Park, Windsor, the scene of 
 Falstaff's final defeat by the " Merry Wives," has long been 
 regarded as a sacred relic. Who would, in these days, have 
 known aught of the legendary hunter, Heme, who, in life, a 
 keeper of the forest, after death, antlered like a deer, at- 
 
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 tended by a pack of demon hounds, was said to ride through 
 the park at midnight, and vanish at his starting point, the 
 ancient oak which bore his name; had not the Poet given 
 fresh life to the dying legend? This relic (of which a me- 
 mento is presented^ was blown down in the high winds last 
 autumn, and by Her Majesty's command removed to the 
 
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 Castle, to preserve it from pillage. The Garter Inn, promi- 
 nent in the play, exists at this day as the " Star and Garter," 
 inPeascod-street; it has been named as the hostel where 
 Shakespeare wrote the " Merry Wives of Windsor." But this 
 is an error, for he penned it at the Hope Inn, Frogmore, then 
 known as the " Bottle on the Moor.'' 
 
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 It is a delightful feature in the character of Shakespeare, 
 that he did not forget his home friends, or the scenes of his 
 youth. As his fortunes rose, so did that of his sire. As has 
 already been told, it was his wont to visit Stratford annually, 
 and in 1597 he completed the purchase of New Place, a 
 mansion of considerable size, for the residence of his family, 
 
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 decreased by the death of Hammet in the preceding year. 
 He himself continued to reside in London, at one time occu- 
 pying a house in the vicinity of the Times printing office. 
 Printing House Square, leased to him by the Corporation of 
 the City of London; at another lodging in close proximity to 
 the Bear Garden, Southwark, where he held house property, 
 
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 as would seem from assessments made on him, as also for 
 other property in the liberty of the Clink. 
 
 The future founder of Dulwich College, Edward Alleyn, 
 became the purchaser of Shakespeare's interest in the Black- 
 friar's Theatre, properties, and wardrobe, although the docu- 
 ment quoted by Mr. Collier merely refers to the lease. It is 
 as follows: — 
 
 "1612. 
 " Money paid by me, E. A., for the Blackfriars . 1 60 li. 
 
 " More for the Blackfriars 126 11. 
 
 " More again for lease . . . . . 310 li. 
 "The writings for the same, and other small charges, £3 6s. 8d." 
 
 Subsequent memoranda, by Edward Alleyne, show that he 
 paid rent for the theatre, and expended sums upon the 
 building. 
 
 We give a portrait of Alleyne, as one who was not only 
 mixed up with our hero in monetary transactions in his latter 
 days, but because he was a public benefactor in every sense 
 of the word. 
 
 'It was not until about 1613, that Shakespeare finally retired 
 from public life, after creating a drama, and founding a litera- 
 ture, and joined the surviving members of his family in 
 retirement at New Place. Susanna, his favourite daughter, 
 had been married since 1607 to Dr. Hall, a physician of 
 much skill and repute; and in 1616, his younger daughter, 
 Judith, married Mr. Thomas Quiney, vintner, of Stratford. 
 On the 25th of March, in the same year, Shakespeare made 
 his will, being at the time, as he' himself expresses it, " in 
 perfect health and memory, God be praised!" and on the 
 23rd of the following month, after a very brief illness, the 
 " gentle Bard of Avon," " Nature's sweetest child," the " Poet 
 of all time," as he has been variously called, yielded back his 
 spirit to the God who gave it. 
 
 Incomparable as he was, and wide as was the gap occa- 
 
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 sioned by tis death, no particular rites of sepulture appear to 
 have been observed ; for, on the second day after his decease,' 
 his remains were interred on the north side of the chancel in 
 the parish church of Stratford. Here a monument, con- 
 taining a bust of the poet, executed by Gerard Johnson, was 
 
 MONUMEHT IN STRATFOKD CHUKCH. 
 
 after a while erected. The bust is the size of life, is 
 formed out of a block of soft stone, and was originally 
 painted over, in imitation of nature. The hands and face, 
 says Mr. Britton, were of a flesh colour, the eyes of a light 
 hazel, and the hair and beard auburn ; the doublet or coat 
 was scarlet, and covered with a loose black gown or tabard. 
 
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 without sleeves; the upper part of the cushion was •green, the 
 under half crimson, and the tassels gilt. Such appear to have 
 been the original features of this important, but neglected or 
 insulted bust. After remaining in this state above 120 
 years, it was repaired, and the original colours preserved. 
 In 1793, the bust was covered over with white paint, which 
 destroyed its original character, and greatly injured the 
 expression of the face. The following is the inscription 
 beneath the bust: — 
 
 JvDicio Pylivm, genio Socratbm, aktb Maeonem, 
 Tebka tegit, popvlvs mjeret Oltmpvs habet. 
 Stat, Passenger, why ooest thov by so east? 
 Bead, if thov canst, whom enviovs death hath plast 
 Within this Monvment, Shakbpeake, with wiiome 
 qvick natvbe dide; whose name doth deck ye tombe 
 Fae moke than cost; sith all yt he hath weitt 
 Leaves living art bvt page to serve his wit. 
 
 dbitt ano. doi. 1616. JEtatis 53, die 23 Ap. 
 
 Later on, jn 1741, a cenotaph, raised by performances at 
 the principal London theatres, and which cost about £300; 
 was placed in Poet's Corner, Westminster Abbey, that grand 
 old depository of England's mighty dead. 
 
 But Shakespeare has a nobler, a more lasting monument 
 than either of these. As Milton himself, only second io 
 Shakespeare, beautifully observes, he has his own imperish- 
 able works ; and what other more touching tribute could be 
 paid to him than was paid by " rare Ben Jonson," when he 
 said " I love the man, and do honour his memory on this side 
 idolatry as much as any." 
 
 Our frontispiece portrait is copied from the first folio, and 
 has a certain similarity to the coloured bust in the chancel. 
 Although inferior as a work of art, it seems to be regarded 
 as the most authentic likeness we possess of the Poet. This 
 original portrait was engraved by Droeshout. The orna- 
 mental surroundings and autographs we have added. 
 
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 Accomp^ying the original are some verses by Ben Jonson, 
 which of themselves attest to a certain truthfulness, which 
 gives this portrait an interest over.- the many other and 
 apparently better ones published in various editions. 
 
 " This figure, that thon here seest put 
 It was for gentle Shakespeare cut; 
 Wherein the graver had a strife 
 With Nature, to out-doo the life. 
 O, could he but have drawne his wit 
 As well in brasse as he hath hit 
 His face, the print would then surpasse 
 All that was ever writt in brasse; 
 But since he cannot, reader, looke 
 ' Not on his picture, but his booke." 
 
 While giving Ben Jonson's testimony to his friend's face, 
 and elsewhere to his worth, we cannot help also noticing how 
 Spenser referred to him in his " Teares of the Muses" and 
 although a doubt has been expressed as to the words in 
 italics referring to Shakespeare, we cannot help crediting the 
 evidence adduced by Charles Knight, that they could not have 
 been intended-for any but Shakespeare. 
 
 TBABES 01" THE MUSES. 
 
 "And he, the man whom Nature selfe had made 
 To mock herselfe, and Truth to imitate 
 With kindly counter under mimick shade, 
 Oiir pleasant Willy, ah ! is dead of late ; 
 With whom all joy and jolly merriment 
 Is also deaded, and in dolour drent. 
 
 " Instead thereof, scoffing Scurrilitie, 
 And scornful follie with Contempt is crept, 
 Boiling in rymes of shameless ribaudrie. 
 Without regard or due decornm kept; 
 Each idle wit at will presumes to make 
 And doth the leamed's taske upon him take. 
 
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 " But that same gentle spirit, from whose pen 
 Large streams of honnie and sweele Nectar flowe. 
 Scorning the boldness of such base-born men, 
 Which dare their follies forth so rashlie throwe, 
 Doth rather choose to sit in idle cell, 
 Than so himself to mockery to sell." 
 
 In the first edition of Shakespeare, Rowe mentions that 
 " Mr. Dryden was always of opinion that these verses were 
 meant of Shakespeare." 
 
 Five full page illustrations which accompany this brochure, 
 and which respectively represent the history {Henry the 
 Fourth), the poetry {Midsummer Night's Dream), the mytho- 
 logy (the Tempest), the comedy {Much ado About Nothing), 
 and the tragedy {Hamlet), of Shakespeare, only faintly indicate 
 the magnitude and diversity of his genius ; for not only did 
 ail creation lavish her boundless wealth at his feet, but having 
 " exhausted old worlds," he next " created new.'' 
 
 Of the works he left to posterity, the following are pre- 
 served: those marked * were printed in their great author's 
 lifetime, and the whole collected by his fellowes, Heminge 
 and Condell, were published in, 1623. 
 
 ■- 1. The Comedy or Ekkoes. 
 — *2. Love's Laboub Lost. 
 
 -S3. KOMEO AND JnilET. 
 
 i. Henry VI., the First Part. 
 *5. Henky VI., the Second Part. 
 *6. Henry VI., the Third Part. 
 T-^. The Two Gentlemen or Verona. 
 
 ••8. KiCHARD III. 
 
 •^9. Richard II. 
 
 *10. The Merry Wives op Windsor. 
 *ll. Henry IV., the First Part. 
 *12. Henry IV., the Second Part. 
 -•13. Henry V. 
 '^*\i. The MERCdfAHT of Venice. 
 -fib. Hamlet. 
 
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 16. KiKG John. 
 ^n. A MiDSUMMEK Night's Dkeam. 
 -- 18. The Taming op the Shkew. 
 -n.9. All's "Well that Ends Well. 
 120. MncH Ado About Nothing. 
 ^21. As You Like It. 
 *22. TuoiLtrs AND Chessida. 
 
 23. TiMON OP Athens. 
 -^4. The Winteh's Tale. 
 —25. Measure for Measure. 
 -*26. Lear. ' 
 
 -27. Ctmeelinb. 
 •"28. Macbeth 
 — 29. Julius Caesar. 
 ^6. Anthont and Cleopatra. 
 —31. Coriolanus. 
 ^2. The Tempest. 
 — 33. The Twelfth Night. 
 r- 34. Henry VIII. 
 ^35. Othello. 
 
 *Tiius Andronicus. 
 *Pericles. 
 
 These are given in the supposed order of production, with 
 the exception of the last two plays, the authorship of which 
 has been much disputed. The Poems comprise — 
 
 Venus and Adonis. 
 The Rape of Lucrece. 
 FiFTT-pouK Sonnets. 
 The Passionate Pilgrim. 
 A Lover's Complaint. 
 
 The titles under which our poet originally' published his 
 plays cannot fail to interest the reader, now that everything 
 relating to him becomes invested with a charm peculiarly its 
 owa. The orthography is the same as appears on the title 
 pages of the first quarto editions. 
 
 The Tragedy of King Bicbard the third, containing, His treacherous 
 
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 Plots against his brother Clarence : the pittiefuU mnrther of his inno- 
 cent uephewes: his tyrannicall vsurpation: with the whole course of his 
 detested life, and most deserned death, 1597. 
 
 The History of Henrie the Fovrth; with the battell at Shrewsburie, 
 between the King and Lord Henry Percy, sumamed Hotspur of the 
 North. With the humorous conceits of Sir John Falstalffe, 1598. 
 
 A Pleasant Conceited Comedie called Loues labors lost. As it was 
 presented before her Highness this last Christmas, 1598. 
 
 Much adoe about Nothing. As it hath been sundrie times publikely 
 acted by the right honourable the Lord Ghamberlaine, his seruants, 
 1600. 
 
 A Midsomer nights dreame, 1600. 
 
 The most excellente Histoiie of the merchant of Venice with the 
 extreame crueltie of Shylocke the lewe towards the sayd Merchant, in 
 cutting a iust pound of his flesh: and the obtaining of Portia by the 
 choyse of three chests, 1600. 
 
 The - Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, prince of Denmarke. Newly 
 imprinted and enlarged to almost as much againe as it was, according 
 to the true and perfect Coppie, 1604. 
 
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 HAMLET. 
 
 Act I., Scene V. 
 A more remote pari of the Platform. 
 
 Enter Ghost and Hamlet. 
 
 Ham. Whither wilt thou lead me? sjieak, I'll go no further. 
 
 Ghost, Mark me. 
 
 Ham. I will. 
 
 Ghost. My hour is almost come, 
 
 When I to s,ulphurous and tormenting flames 
 Must i^ender up myself. 
 
 Ham. Alas, poor Ghost! 
 
 Ghost. Pity me not, but lend thy serious hearing 
 To what I shall unfold. 
 
 Ham. .Speak, 1 am bound to hear. 
 
 Ghost. So art thou to revenge, when thou shalt hear. 
 
 Ham. What! 
 
 Ghost, I am thy father's spirit: 
 
 Doom'd for a certain term to walk the night, 
 
 And, for the day, confin'd to fast in fires, 
 
 Till the foul crimes, done in my days of nature 
 
 Are buru't and purg'd away. But that I am forbid 
 
 To tell the secrets of my prison-house, 
 
 I could a tale unfold, whose lightest word 
 
 Would harrow up thy soul; freeze thy young blood. 
 
 Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheresj 
 
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 THE TEMPEST. 
 
 Act I., Scene II. 
 Re-enter Akiel, invisible, playing and singing; FESDiSAJiD following, 
 
 Ariel's song. 
 
 Come unto these yellow sands, 
 
 4.nd then take hands : 
 
 Court'sied when you have and kiss'd, — 
 
 The wild waves whist, — 
 
 Foot it featly here and there; 
 
 And, sweet sprites, the burden bear. 
 
 Hark, hark! 
 Burden. Bough, wough. 
 
 The watch dogs bark : 
 
 {Dispersedlff. 
 
 Bough, wough. 
 
 Hark, hark! I hear 
 
 The strains of strutting chanticleer 
 
 Cry " Cock-a-doodle-doo." 
 Ferdinand. Where should this music be? i' the air, or the earth? 
 It sounds no more: — and sure it waits upon some god of the island. 
 
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 KING HENRY THE FOURTH. 
 
 Act IV., Scene TV. 
 
 Exeunt all but Prince Henry. 
 P. Hen. Why doth the crown lie there upon his pillow, 
 Being so troublesome a bed-fellow ? ^ 
 
 polish'd perturbation ! golden oare ! 
 That keep'st the ports of slumber open wide 
 To many a watchful night !— sleep with it now ! 
 Yet not so sound, and half so deeply sweet. 
 As he, whose brow, with homely biggin bound, 
 Snores but the watch of night. majesty! 
 When thou dost pinch thy bearer, thou dost sit 
 Like a rich armour worn in heat of day. 
 That scalds with safety. By his gates of breath 
 There lies a downy feather, which stirs not : 
 Did he suspire, that light and weightless down 
 
 Perforce must move. — My gracious lord! my father! 
 
 This sleep is sound indeed; this is a sleep, 
 That from the golden rigol hath divorc'd 
 So many English kings. Thy due, from me. 
 Is tears, and heary sorrows of the blood; 
 Which nature, love, and filial tenderposs. 
 Shall, dear father, pay thee plenteously: 
 My due from thee, is this imperial crown. 
 Which, as iminediate from thy place and blood. 
 Derives itself to me. Lo, here it sits,- — 
 
 {^Putting it on his head. 
 Which God shall guard: 
 
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 MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DEEAM. 
 
 Act II., Scene II. — A Wood. 
 I/YSANDER and Hermia asleep. 
 
 Enter Puck. 
 Puck. Through the forest have I gone, 
 But Athenian found I none, 
 On whose eyes I might approve 
 This flower's force in stirring love. 
 Night and silence! who is here? 
 Weeds of Athens he doth wear; 
 This is he, mj master said. 
 Despised the Athenian maid; 
 And here the maiden, sleeping sound, 
 On the daul< and dirty ground. 
 Pretty soul, she durst not lie 
 Near this lack-love, this kill-court'sy. 
 Churl, upon thy eyes I throw 
 All the power this charm doth owe : 
 When thou wak'st, let love forbid 
 Sleep his seat on thy eyelid. 
 So awake, when I am gone: 
 For I must now to Oheron. 
 
 [Exit. 
 
 Enter Demetrius and Helena, running. 
 
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 MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING. 
 
 Act III., Scene I. 
 Ubsula and Hero conversing in Leonato's Garden. 
 
 Enter Bbatkice, behind. 
 Hero. No ; rather I will go to Benedick, 
 
 And counsel him to fight against his passion : 
 » And, truly, I'll devise some honest slanders 
 To stain my cousin with: one doth not know. 
 How much an ill word may ettipoison liking^ 
 Urs. O, do not do your cousin such a wrong. 
 
 She cannot be so much without true judgment 
 (Having so swift and excellent a wit, 
 As she is priz'd to have.) as to refuse 
 So rare a gentleman as Signior Benedick. 
 Hero. He is the only man of Italy, 
 
 Always excepted my dear Claudio. 
 Urs. I pray yon, be not angry with me, madam. 
 Speaking my fancy; Signior Benedick, 
 For shape, for bearing, argument, and valour, 
 ' Goes foremost in report through Italy. 
 Hero. Indeed he hath an excellent good name. 
 Urs. His excellence did earn it, ere he had it. — 
 When are you married, madam? 
 Hero. Why, every day: — ^to-morrow: come, go in; 
 
 I'll show thee some attires ; and have thy counsel. 
 Which is the best to furnish me to-morrow. 
 Urs. laside.'] She's lim'd, I warrant you; we have caught her, 
 madam. 
 Hero, [osz'rfe.] If it prove so, then loving goes by haps: 
 Some, Cupid kills by arrows, some with traps. 
 
 l^Exeunt Hero and Ursula. 
 
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 SHAKESPEARE'S WILL, 
 
 Fkom the Original in the Office of the Prerogative 
 Court of Canterbury. 
 
 Vicesimo quinto die Martii, Anno Regni Domini nostri Jacobi 
 nunc. Regis Anglice, etc., decimo quarto, et Scotice quadra- 
 gesimo nono. Anno Domini 1616. 
 
 In the name of God, Amen. I, William Shakespeare, of 
 Stratford-upon-Avon, in the county of Warwick, gent,, in 
 perfect health and memory (God be praised), do make and 
 ordain this my last will and testament, in manner and form 
 following (that is to say) : — 
 
 First, I commend my soul into the hands of God, my 
 Creator, hoping, and assuredly believing, through the only 
 merits of Jesus Christ, my Saviour, to be made partaker of 
 life everlasting; and my body to the earth whereof it is 
 made. 
 
 Item. I give and bequeath unto my daughter Judith, one 
 hundred and fifty pounds of lawful English money, to be paid 
 unto her in manner and form following (that is to say) : — One 
 hundred pounds in discharge of her marriage portion, within 
 one year after my decease, with consideration after the rate of 
 two shillings in the pound, for so long a time as the same , 
 shall be unpaid unto her after my decease; and the fifty 
 . pounds residue thereof, upon her surrendering of, or giving of 
 such sufficient security as the overseers of this my will shall 
 
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 like of, to surrender or grant, all her estate and right that 
 shall descend or come unto her after my decease, or that she 
 now hath, of, in, or to, one copyhold tenement, with the 
 appurtenances, lying and being in Stratford-upon-Avon afore- 
 said, in the said county of Warwick, being parcel or holden 
 of the manor of Kowington, unto my daughter Susanna Hall, 
 and her heirs for ever. 
 
 Item. I give and bequeath unto my said daughter Judith 
 one hundred and fifty pounds more, if she, or any issue of her 
 body, be living at the end of three years next ensuing the 
 day of the date of this my will, during' which time my execu- 
 tors 'to pay her consideration from my decease, according to 
 the rate aforesaid: and if she die within the said term with- 
 out issue of her body, then my will is, and I do give and 
 bequeath, one hundred pounds thereof to my niece, Elizabeth 
 Hall, and the fifty pounds to be set forth by my executors 
 during the life of my sister Joan Hart, and the use and profit 
 thereof coming shall be paid to my said sister Joan, and 
 after her decease the said fifty pounds shall remain amongst 
 the children of my said sister, equally to be divided amongst 
 them ; but if my said daughter Judith be living at the end of 
 the said three years, or any issue of her body, then my will 
 is, and so I devise and bequeath, the said hundred and fifty 
 pounds to be set out by my executors and overseers for the 
 best benefit of her and her issue, and the stock not to be paid 
 unto her so long as she shall be mairried and covert baron ; 
 but my will is, that she shall have the consideration yearly 
 paid unto her during her life, and after her decease, the said 
 stock and consideration to be paid to her children, if she have 
 any, and if not, to her executors or assigns, she living the 
 said term after my decease : provided that if such husband as 
 she shall at the end of the said three years be married unto, 
 or at any (time) after, do sufficiently assure unto her, and the 
 issue of her body, lanSs answerabl&to the portion by this my 
 
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 will given unto her, and to be adjudged so by my executors 
 and overseers, then my will is, that the said hundred and 
 fifty pounds shall be paid to such husband as shall make such 
 assurance, to his own use. 
 
 Item. I give and bequeath ^nto my said sister Joan twenty 
 pounds, and all my wearing apparel, to be paid and delivered 
 within one year after my decease; and I do will and devise 
 unto her the house, with the appurtenances, in Stratford, 
 wherein she dwelleth, for her natural life, under the yearly 
 rent of twelve pence. 
 
 Item. I give and bequeath unto her three sons, William 
 Hart, ■ Hart, and Michael Hart, five pounds apiece, to 
 
 be paid within one year after my decease. 
 
 Item. I give and bequeath unto the said Elizabeth Hall all 
 my plate (except my broad silver and gilt bowl), that I now 
 have at the date of this my will. 
 
 Item. I give and bequeath unto the poor of Stratford 
 aforesaid, ten pounds ; to Mr. Thomas Combe, my sword ; to 
 Thomas Russell, Esq., five pounds; and to Francis Collins, of 
 the borough of Warwick, in the county of Warwick^ gent., 
 thirteen pounds six shillings and eight pence, to be paid 
 within one year after my decease. 
 
 Item. I give and bequeath to Hamlet Sadler, twenty-six 
 shillings eight pence, to buy him a ring; to my godson, 
 William Walker, twenty shillings in gold; to Anthony Nash, 
 gent., twenty-six shillings eight pence; and to Mr. John 
 Nash, twenty-six shillings eight pence; and to my fellows, 
 John Hemyngs, Richard Burbage, and Henry Condell, twenty- 
 six shillings eight pence apiece, to buy them rings. 
 
 Item. I give, will, bequeath, and devise unto my daughter, 
 Susanna Hall, for the better enabling her to perform this my 
 will, and towards the performance thereof, all that capital 
 messuage or tenement, with the appurtenances, in Stratford 
 aforesaid, called The New Place, wherein I now dwell, and 
 
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 two messuages or tenements, with the appurtenances, situate, 
 lying, and being in Henley-street, within the borough of Strat- 
 ford aforesaid, and all my barns, stables, orchards, gardens, 
 'lands, tenements, and hereditaments whatsoever, situate, lying, 
 and being, or to be had, received, perceived, or taken, within the 
 town, hamlets, villages, fields, and grounds, of Stratford-upon- 
 Avon, Old Stratford, Bishopton, and Welcombe, or in any of 
 them, in the said county of Warwick; and also all that mes- 
 suage or tenement, with the appurtenances, wherein one John 
 Eobinson dwelleth, situate, lying, and being in the Blackfriars 
 in London, near the Wardrobe: and all other my lands, tene- 
 ments, and hereditaments whatsoever, to have and to hold all 
 and singular the said premises, with their appurtenances, unto 
 the said Susanna Hall, for and during the term of her natural 
 life; and after her decease, to the first son of her body, law- 
 fully issuing; and for default of such issue, to the second son, 
 lawfully issuing; and for default of such heirs, to the third 
 son of the body of the said Susanna, lawfully issuing, and to 
 the heirs-males of the body of the said third son, lawfully 
 issuing; and for default of such issue, the same so to be and 
 remain to the fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh sons of her 
 body, lawfully issuing one after another, and to the heirs- 
 males of the bodies of the said fourth, fifth,- sixth, and seventh 
 sons, lawfully issuing, in such manner as it is before limited 
 to be and remain to the first, second, and third sons of her 
 body, and to their heirs-males ; and for default of such issue, 
 the said premises to be and to remain to my said niece Hall, 
 and the heirs -males of her body, lawfully issuing; and for 
 default of such issue, to my daughter Judith, and the heirs- 
 males of her body, lawfully issuing, and for default of such 
 issue, to the right heirs of me the said William Shakespeare 
 for ever. 
 
 Item. I give unto my wife my second best bed, with the 
 furniture. 
 
ALL ABOUT SHAKESPEARE. 
 
 Item. I give and bequeath to my said daughter Judith, my 
 broad silver gilt bowl. -All the rest of my goods, chattels, 
 leases, plate, jewels, and household stuff whatsoever, after my 
 , debts and legacies paid, and my funeral expenses discharged, ' 
 I give, devise, and bequeath to my son-in-law, John Hall, 
 gent., and my daughter Susanna, his wife, whom I ordain 
 and make executors of this my last will and testament. And 
 I do entreat and appoint the said Thomas Eussell, Esq., and 
 Francis Collins, gent., to be overseers hereof. And do 
 revoke all former wills, and publish this to be my last will 
 and testament. In witness whereof I have hereunto put my 
 hand, the day and year first above written. 
 
 By me, 
 William Shakspeaee. 
 
 Witness to the publishing hereof, 
 
 Fba. Collyns, 
 Julius Shaw, 
 John Robinson, 
 Hamnet Sadler, 
 Egbert Whatcott. 
 
 Probatum fuit testamentum suprascriptum apud London, 
 coram Magistro William Byrde, LegumDoctore, etc., vicesimo 
 secundo die mensis Junii, Anno Domini, 1616; jurameiito 
 Johannis Hall unius ex, cui, etc., de bene, etc., jurat reservata 
 potestate, etc. Susannce Hall, alt. ex., etc., earn cum venerit, 
 etc., petitur, etc. 
 
 The will is written on three sheets of paper, the last two of 
 which are undoubtedly subscribed with Shakespeare's own 
 hand. 
 
BCENE V. 
 
 KOMEO AND JULIET. 
 
 41 
 
 Jut. Now, good sweet nurse, — Lord ! vrhy look'st thou 
 sad! 
 Though news be sad, yet tell them merrily; 
 If good, thou sham'st the music of sweet news 
 By playing it to me with so sour a face. 
 
 NuKSB. I am aweary, give me leave a while ; — 
 Pie, how my bones ache ! What a jaunt have I had ! 
 
 Jul. I would thou ha;dst my bones, and I thy news: 
 Nay, come, I pray thee, speak; — good, good nurse, speak. 
 
 NuESB, Jesu, what haste? can you not stay a while! 
 Do you not see that I am out of breath! 
 
 Jul. How art thou out of breath, when thou hast breath 
 To say to me — that thou art out of breath? 
 The excuse that thou dost make in this delay 
 Is longer than the tale thou dost excuse. 
 Is thy news good, or bad? answer to that; 
 Say either, and I'U stay the circumstance: 
 Let me be satisfied. Is 't good or bad? 
 
 NuBSB. Well, you have made a simple choice ; you know 
 not how to choose a man : Bomeo ! no, not . he ; though his 
 face be better than any man's, yet Ms leg excels all men's ; 
 and for a hand, and a foot, and a body, — though they be not 
 to be talked on, yet they are past compare: He is not the 
 flower of courtesy, — ^but, I '11 warrant him, as gentle as a 
 lamb. — Go thy ways, wench; serve God. — What, have you 
 dined at home ? 
 
 Jul. No, no : But all this did I know before ; 
 What says he of our marriage? what of that? 
 
 NuKSE. Lord, how my head aches! what a head have I! 
 It beats as it would fall in twenty pieces. 
 My back o' t' other side, — 0, my back, my back! — 
 Beshrew your heart, for sending me about. 
 To catch my death with jaunting up and down ! 
 
 Jul. I' faith, I am sorry that thou art not well: 
 Sweet, sweet, sweet nurse, tell me, what says my love? 
 
 NuBSE. Your love says like an honest gentleman. 
 And a courteous, and a kind, and a handsome. 
 And, I warrant, a virtuous: — Where is your mother? 
 
 Jul. Where is my mother? — why, she is within; 
 Where should she be ? How oddly thou repliest : , 
 
 SP ECIMEN PA GE. 
 
 I^iblishod by HENRY LEA & Co., 112, Fleet-street. 
 
42 KOMEO AND JULIET. ACT II. SC. VI. 
 
 " Your love says like an honest gentleman, — 
 Where is your mother 1" 
 
 NuESB. Q, God's lady dear! 
 
 Are you so hot? Marry, come up, I trow; 
 Is this the poultice for my aching bones ! 
 Henceforward do your messages yourself. 
 
 Juii. Here 's such a ooil, — Come, what says Romeo? 
 
 NuBSB. Have you got leave to go to dirift to-day 1 
 
 Jul. I have. 
 
 Ndesb. Then hie yion hence to friar Laurence' cell, 
 rhere stays a husband to make you a wife; 
 Now comes the wanton blood up in your dieeka. 
 They '11 be in scarlet straight at any news. 
 Hie you to chuioh; I must another way. 
 To fetch a ladder, by the which your love 
 Must chmb a bird's nest soon, when it is dark: 
 I am the drudge, and toil in your delist-; 
 But you shall bear the burthen soon st night. 
 Go, I '11 to dinner; Irie you to the celL 
 
 Jui. Hie ±0 bigh fortune! — honest nurse, faasewdL 
 
 SCENE VI.— Sriar Iiaurence's Cell. 
 
 Enter Pkiar liAUKKNCB and Eomeq. 
 
 Phi. So smile the Heavens upon this holy act 
 That after-hours with sorrow chide us not! 
 
 EoM. AmeiJ, amen ! but come what sorrow can. 
 It cannot countervail the exchange of joy 
 That one short minute gives me in her sight: 
 Do thou but dose our iands with holy words. 
 Then love-devouring death do what he dare. 
 It is enough I -may but call her mine. 
 
 Fki. These violent delights have violent ends. 
 And in their triumph die ; like fire and powder. 
 Which, as they kiss, consume: The sweetest honey 
 Is loathsome in his own deliciousness, 
 And in the taste confounds the appetite; 
 Therefore, love moderately ; long love doth ao j 
 Too swift amves as tardy as too slow. 
 
TTMON OF ATHEXS. 
 
 TiMOS. " Kctpit, Icaonotcat it."' 
 
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