. William Shakespere : a biography. ich those times could tell,But that some one thei-eof on this or that side fell; the .slaughterd men that there layheapd on piles,Bohuns and Beauchamps were, Bassets and Mandeviles :Segraves and Saint Johns seek, upon the end of all,To erive those of their names their Christian thousand on both sides were taen and slain that day ;Prince Edward gets the goal, and bears the palm away. * There is peace awhile in the land. A strong man is on the throne. Thefirst Edward dies, and, a weak and profligate son succeeding him, there isagain misrule
. William Shakespere : a biography. ich those times could tell,But that some one thei-eof on this or that side fell; the .slaughterd men that there layheapd on piles,Bohuns and Beauchamps were, Bassets and Mandeviles :Segraves and Saint Johns seek, upon the end of all,To erive those of their names their Christian thousand on both sides were taen and slain that day ;Prince Edward gets the goal, and bears the palm away. * There is peace awhile in the land. A strong man is on the throne. Thefirst Edward dies, and, a weak and profligate son succeeding him, there isagain misrule and turbulence. Within ten miles of Stratford there was afearful tragedy enacted in the year 1312. On the little knoll called BlacklowHill, about a mile from Warwick, would William Shakspere ponder upon thefate of Gaveston. In that secluded spot all around him would be peacefulness ;the only sound of life about him would be the dashing of the wheel of the oldmill at Guys Cliff. The towers of Warwick would be seen rising above their. [Mill at Ouys Cliiri surrounding trees ; and, higher than all, Guys Tower. He would have heardthat this tower was not so called from the Saxon champion, the Guy of min-strelsy, whose statue, bearing shield and sword, he had often looked upon inthe chapel of St. Mary Magdalen at Guys Cliff. Tlie Tower was called after 164 Draytons P()]yoll>iou/ 22nd Song.
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