. William Shakespere : a biography. [i\ Alvcstpn-l. ; ^^/i^* ^ [Near Ludington.] NOTE ON THE SCENERY OF THE AVON. The Avon of Warwickshire, called the Upper Avon, necessarily derives its chief interest from itsfcssociatious with Shakspere. His contemporaries connected his fame with his native river :—■ Sweet swan of Avon, what a sifilit it were,To see thee in our waters yet appear,And make tliose flights upon tlie banks of ThamesThat 80 did take Eliza and our James t So wrote Jonson in his manly lines, To the Memory of my Beloved, the Author Mr. WilliamShakespeare, and what he hath left ub
. William Shakespere : a biography. [i\ Alvcstpn-l. ; ^^/i^* ^ [Near Ludington.] NOTE ON THE SCENERY OF THE AVON. The Avon of Warwickshire, called the Upper Avon, necessarily derives its chief interest from itsfcssociatious with Shakspere. His contemporaries connected his fame with his native river :—■ Sweet swan of Avon, what a sifilit it were,To see thee in our waters yet appear,And make tliose flights upon tlie banks of ThamesThat 80 did take Eliza and our James t So wrote Jonson in his manly lines, To the Memory of my Beloved, the Author Mr. WilliamShakespeare, and what he hath left ub. After him came Davenant, with a pretty conceit thatthe river Lad lost its beauty when the great poet no longer dwelt upon its banks :— W4 beware, delighted poets, when you sing,To welcome nature in the early spring. Your numerous feet not treadThe banks of Avon ; for eaoh flowr,Aa it neer knew a sun or show r,lianas there the pensive head. A HlOfiRArnV. Each tree, whose thick and spreading growth hath ini4»Kather a night beneath the boughs th
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