. The comedies, histories, tragedies, and poems of William Shakspere. him bythe chain, Sackerson and Slender must havebeen equals in simplicity. Slenders triumphof manhood over the women, who so cried andshrieked at it, is exquisite. The passage iswonderfully improved from the correspondingone in the original sketch :— Slen. What, have you bears in your town, mistressAnne, your dogs bark so ? Anne. I;cannot tell, master Slender, I think there be. Slen. Ha, how say you ? I warrant you re afraid of abear let loose, are you not ? Anne. Yes, trust me. Sim. Now thats meat and drink to me. I 11 run
. The comedies, histories, tragedies, and poems of William Shakspere. him bythe chain, Sackerson and Slender must havebeen equals in simplicity. Slenders triumphof manhood over the women, who so cried andshrieked at it, is exquisite. The passage iswonderfully improved from the correspondingone in the original sketch :— Slen. What, have you bears in your town, mistressAnne, your dogs bark so ? Anne. I;cannot tell, master Slender, I think there be. Slen. Ha, how say you ? I warrant you re afraid of abear let loose, are you not ? Anne. Yes, trust me. Sim. Now thats meat and drink to me. I 11 run to abear, and take her by the muzzle, you never saw the indeed I cannot blame you, for they are marvellousrough things. Anne. Will you go in to dinner, master Slender ? Themeat stays for you. Sim. No faith, not I, I thank you. 1 cannot abide thesmell of hot meat, neer since I broke my shin. I 11 tellyou how it came, by my troth. A fencer and I playedthree venies for a dish of stewed prunes, and I with myward defending my head, he hit my shin; yes [^Sackerson oose. MEBRY WIVES OF WINDSOR. LOCAL ILLUSTRATION. 153 In the original editions of tliis comedy we haveno descriptions of the scenes, such as, Street inWindsor, Windsor Park, Field near Frog-more. These necessarj explanations were addedby Rowe; but we may collect from the text thatShakspere had a perfect knowledge of the lo-calities of Windsor. Having the advantage ofthe same local experience, we shall attempt tofollow the poet in these passages; and, withoutgoing into any minute descriptions, endeavourto show what was the Windsor of our ancestors,and such as it presented itself to Shaksperesobservation. Although we have reason to believe, that theaction of this play might originally have be-longed to the time of Elizabeth, yet the con-nexion of some of the characters as they nowstand with characters of the historical plays ofHenry IV., must place the period of the actionabout two centuries before Shaksper
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