. William Shakespere : a biography. Life. 257 f^CJj^iidd^J^i- -^^a. •^ *V. [Worcester.] CHAP T E R XV I. A DAY AT WOKCESTEE. The hospitality of our ancestors was founded upon their sympathies witheach others joys and sorrows. The festivals of the church, the celebrations ofsheep-shearing and harvest-home, the Mayings, were occasions of general glad-ness. But upon the marriage of a son or of a daughter, at the christening of achild, the humblest assembled their neighbours to partake of their particularrejoicing. So was it also with their sorrows. Death visited a family, and itsneiglibours came
. William Shakespere : a biography. Life. 257 f^CJj^iidd^J^i- -^^a. •^ *V. [Worcester.] CHAP T E R XV I. A DAY AT WOKCESTEE. The hospitality of our ancestors was founded upon their sympathies witheach others joys and sorrows. The festivals of the church, the celebrations ofsheep-shearing and harvest-home, the Mayings, were occasions of general glad-ness. But upon the marriage of a son or of a daughter, at the christening of achild, the humblest assembled their neighbours to partake of their particularrejoicing. So was it also with their sorrows. Death visited a family, and itsneiglibours came to mourn. To be absent from the house of mourning wouldhave seemed as if there was not a fellowship in sorrow as well as in joy. Chris-tian neighbours in those times looked upon each other as members of the samefamily. Their intimacy was much more constant and complete than in daysthat are thought more refined. Privacy was not looked upon as a desirableiliing. The latch of every door was lifted without knocking, and the dance in2o8 A RI0G1;A111V. tlie hall was
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