[Publications] . specially one of the items, where it isstated that Sir Thomas Lucy (against whom Shakespeare is said to have written a bal-lad) sent a present of a buck. Malone discredits the whole story of the deer stealing,because Sir Thomas Lucy had no park at Charlecote : I conceive, he says ( Boswell, ii. 145), it will very readily be granted that Sir Thomas Lucy could notlose that of which he never was possessed. We> find, however, from what follows,that he was possessed of deer, for he sent a present of a buck to Lord Ellesmerein 1602, though that was fifteen or twenty yea
[Publications] . specially one of the items, where it isstated that Sir Thomas Lucy (against whom Shakespeare is said to have written a bal-lad) sent a present of a buck. Malone discredits the whole story of the deer stealing,because Sir Thomas Lucy had no park at Charlecote : I conceive, he says ( Boswell, ii. 145), it will very readily be granted that Sir Thomas Lucy could notlose that of which he never was possessed. We> find, however, from what follows,that he was possessed of deer, for he sent a present of a buck to Lord Ellesmerein 1602, though that was fifteen or twenty years after Shakespeare (if it ever happened)had been punished for stealing his deer, and had revenged himself by writing the cele-brated ballad.] A Note of all the presentes that weare geven to my Lord atHarefilde, from the xxth of July untill the 2 of August,1602. Rewards. vj8 Mr. Warden of the fleete iiij ^ Warden of the suger loves J Fleete. xxs Stagge, 1; Lobsters, 17; Prawnes, * Anno Regine Ellezabethe George More. xxvs vjd XXVs Buckes, 4 Sir Tho. Gerard. Stagge, 1Bucke, jMorepootes, iijPartridges, iiij
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