All about Shakespeare; . SIR JOHN FALSTAFF. It is on record, that William of Wickham came fromWindsor, while he was surveyor of the alterations and addi-tions to the Castle, to meet John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancasterat the Boars Head, but no mention is made of either host orhostess, until Shakespeare placed the gentlewoman named ALL ABOUT SHAKESPEAKE. Dame Quickly. in juxtaposition with Sir John Dame Quickly, according to Goldsmith, became en-tangled in the meshes of an artful prior of a neighbouringconvent, and after serving his purposes, and resigning thetavern to his uses for ye
All about Shakespeare; . SIR JOHN FALSTAFF. It is on record, that William of Wickham came fromWindsor, while he was surveyor of the alterations and addi-tions to the Castle, to meet John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancasterat the Boars Head, but no mention is made of either host orhostess, until Shakespeare placed the gentlewoman named ALL ABOUT SHAKESPEAKE. Dame Quickly. in juxtaposition with Sir John Dame Quickly, according to Goldsmith, became en-tangled in the meshes of an artful prior of a neighbouringconvent, and after serving his purposes, and resigning thetavern to his uses for years, in revenge for some real orimaginary slight, he sent her and her women to the house of. DAHE QUICKLY AKD FALSTAFF. correction, where she was unhappily whipped to death. Thetavern then became a monastic offshoot of the convent of thisdissolute prior, who was, in turn, burnt for sorcery, and itafterwards passed into the hands of a cast-off mistress of theKing, under whose management it grew into great repute,drunkenness being the vice of the age. Gaming, in course of ALL ABOUT SHAKESPEARE. time, followed on the heels of drunkenness, and in one of thewide-chimnied, quaintly-carved rooms of this very tavern,with stained glass windows emblazoned with escutcheons, didthe last Henry play away and lose the four great bells ofOld St. Pauls, and the image of the saint which stood on thetop of the spire, to Sir Miles Partridge, who took them downthe following day, and sold them by auction. The lasthostess of note was Jane Rouse—one from the lower ranks oflife —who, being frugal and complaisant, acquired a moderatefortune. As late would have it, however, she could not
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