All about Shakespeare; . nd in carrying off a head of deer. Detection fol-lowed—the man was prosecuted, and the poet made. Shake-speare retaliated at the time, in the well-known doggerel (theauthenticity of which is questioned however) in which hesings:— If Lupy is Lowsie, as some volke miscall it,Siuge Lowsie Lacy whatever befall it: ALL ABOUT SHAKESPEARE. But he, also,, retaliated agaia more severely many years after-wards, ?when he drew with his inimitable pen the life-likeportrait of Justice Shallow. Whether Shakespeare ran his native town from perse-cution abroad, or strife and poverty at
All about Shakespeare; . nd in carrying off a head of deer. Detection fol-lowed—the man was prosecuted, and the poet made. Shake-speare retaliated at the time, in the well-known doggerel (theauthenticity of which is questioned however) in which hesings:— If Lupy is Lowsie, as some volke miscall it,Siuge Lowsie Lacy whatever befall it: ALL ABOUT SHAKESPEARE. But he, also,, retaliated agaia more severely many years after-wards, ?when he drew with his inimitable pen the life-likeportrait of Justice Shallow. Whether Shakespeare ran his native town from perse-cution abroad, or strife and poverty at home, is uncertain;but it is certain that, as Aubrey states, this William beingnaturally inclined to poetry and acting, came to is supposed, when not more than seven years of age, tohave beheld a play in dumb show, entitled, The Cradle ofSecurity; when only eleven, the Earl of Leicester enter-tained Good Queen Bess, at his sumptuous palace at Keuil-worth; and Shakespeares sire, then a substantial KENILWOETH CASTLE. and an Alderman of Stratford, may be assumed to have takenhis little Will to witness the pageant. Three distinct com-panies of players had, moreover, visited Stratford, during his ALL ABOUT SHAKESPEARE. youth—and ,as three of these players—Heminge, Burbage,and Green, were Warwickshire, if not Stratford, men, therewas no lack of inducement to abandon the life of a rustic,and cast his lot with them. Arrived in town, he appears to have at once attachedhimself, in a curious capacity, to the Globe and Blaokfriarstheatres. At first, if tradition be true, he was but a hanger-on at the theatre door, as horse-boy; then call-boy; but afterhis introduction within the play-house by one or other of theplayers already referred to, his own talents secured his rapidprogress—first as an actor, then as a playwright.
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