. William Shakespeare; poet, dramatist, and man . rwickshire birth,Walter Savage Landor, completed in his brilliant Citation and Examination of William Shake-speare. It ought not to be forgotten, however,that the victim of the satirical genius of Shake-speare and Landor wrote these touching words for the tomb of his wife inCharlecote church: All the time of herLyfe a true and faithfuUservant of her good God;never detected of anycrime or vice; in religionmost sound; in love toher husband mostfaithfulland true. In friendshipmost constant. To whatin trust was committedto her most secret; inwisdom
. William Shakespeare; poet, dramatist, and man . rwickshire birth,Walter Savage Landor, completed in his brilliant Citation and Examination of William Shake-speare. It ought not to be forgotten, however,that the victim of the satirical genius of Shake-speare and Landor wrote these touching words for the tomb of his wife inCharlecote church: All the time of herLyfe a true and faithfuUservant of her good God;never detected of anycrime or vice; in religionmost sound; in love toher husband mostfaithfulland true. In friendshipmost constant. To whatin trust was committedto her most secret; inwisdom excelling; in gov-erning: her House andbringing up of Youth inthe feare of God that did converse with her most rareand singular; a great maintainer of hospitality;greatly esteemed of her betters; misliked of noneunless the envious. When all is spoken that canbe said, a Woman so furnished and garnished withVirtue as not to be bettered, and hardly to beequalled of any; as she lived most virtuously, soshe dyed most godly. Set down by him that best. SIR T. LUCY. Monument in Charlecote Church. MARRIAGE AND LONDON 8^ did know what hath been written to be true,Thomas Lucy. Sir Thomas may have had the qualities whichShakespeare imputed to him, but the likeness ofthe author of this touching inscription can havebeen caught only by the license of caricature inJustice Shallow. The poaching episode, if it has any historicalbasis, probably took place in 1585, when Shake-speare had been three years married, and, althoughbarely twenty-one years old, was the father of threechildren. Richard Hathaway, described as a hus-bandman, was the owner of a small property atShottery, a mile distant from Stratford, and reachednot only by the highway but by a delightful foot-path through the fields. The thatched cottage, socarefully preserved by the trustees of the Shake-speare properties, has doubtless suffered manychanges since 1582, but remains a picturesqueexample of a farmhouse of Shakespeares time. I
Size: 1271px × 1966px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1900, booksubjectshakesp, bookyear1901
