Typical tales of fancy, romance, and history from Shakespeare's plays; in narrative form, largely in Shakespeare's words, with dialogue passages in the original dramatic text . and happy IO MEMOIR. old age. But, though yet in the prime of life, his days were now draw-ing to a close, and on the 23d of April, 1616, his fifty-second birthday,he breathed his last. He was buried under the chancel-floor of thebeautiful old Stratford church. His gravestone bears, this curiousinscription : — Good frend for Iesvs sake forbeare,To digg the dust encloased heare : e t Bleste be y man y spares thes stones,
Typical tales of fancy, romance, and history from Shakespeare's plays; in narrative form, largely in Shakespeare's words, with dialogue passages in the original dramatic text . and happy IO MEMOIR. old age. But, though yet in the prime of life, his days were now draw-ing to a close, and on the 23d of April, 1616, his fifty-second birthday,he breathed his last. He was buried under the chancel-floor of thebeautiful old Stratford church. His gravestone bears, this curiousinscription : — Good frend for Iesvs sake forbeare,To digg the dust encloased heare : e t Bleste be y man y spares thes stones,And cvrst be he y moves my bones. There has been not a little desire on the part of certain people to lookinto this hallowed tomb, and perhaps to inspect the skull that held thismighty brain, but, as you may well suppose, nobody has been foundhardy enough to brave that fearful curse. So this consecrated resting-place of the worlds greatest poet, together with a rude likeness carvedin stone by some village artist, adorning the wall above it, yet remains togratify the curiosity and awaken the reverence of thousands of pilgrimswho visit it from all quarters of the A MIDSUMMER NIGHTS DREAM. INTRODUCTION.
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