. Shakespere: his birthplace and its neighborhood. om the Bell inCarter Lane, the 25 October, 1598. Yowrs in all kyndenes, Etch. Quyney. To my lovinge good ffrend and contreyman Mr. deliver thees. 42 SHAKSPEBE AND HIS BIRTHPLACE. This is the only scrap of paper which we know forcertain that we possess that Shakspere ever read. It isa precious document—one short glimpse which we catchof the poet. I see not the slightest ground for the conjec-ture, which has been founded upon it, that Shakspere atone period of his life was a money-lender. Loving goodfriend/ and €€ loving countryma
. Shakespere: his birthplace and its neighborhood. om the Bell inCarter Lane, the 25 October, 1598. Yowrs in all kyndenes, Etch. Quyney. To my lovinge good ffrend and contreyman Mr. deliver thees. 42 SHAKSPEBE AND HIS BIRTHPLACE. This is the only scrap of paper which we know forcertain that we possess that Shakspere ever read. It isa precious document—one short glimpse which we catchof the poet. I see not the slightest ground for the conjec-ture, which has been founded upon it, that Shakspere atone period of his life was a money-lender. Loving goodfriend/ and €€ loving countryman, is not quite, I shouldsuppose, the way in which a usurer would be addressedupon money matters at any period of the worlds does the tone of the rest of the note countenance thesupposition. Better, surely, is it for us to regard thisletter as showing Shakspere in the light of a friendhelping a friend, possessed with that love, which is somarked in all his writings, and that sympathy which isthe finest trait in our human Shaksperes Desk.
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