. William Shakespere : a biography. thers, and a brave scarf about his neck,in cut buskins. He is playing at the trey-t,rip with our hosts son : he playethtrick upon the gittern, and dances Trenchmore and Heie de Gie, and tellethnews from Terra Florida. Upon this strange sort of indigenous troubadourdid the schoolboy gaze, for he would seem to belong to a more knowing racethan dwelt on Avons side. His news from Terra Florida tells us of an ageof newstongues, before newspapers were. Doubtless such as he had many astory of home wonders ; he had seen London perhaps ; he could tell of Queensand Pa
. William Shakespere : a biography. thers, and a brave scarf about his neck,in cut buskins. He is playing at the trey-t,rip with our hosts son : he playethtrick upon the gittern, and dances Trenchmore and Heie de Gie, and tellethnews from Terra Florida. Upon this strange sort of indigenous troubadourdid the schoolboy gaze, for he would seem to belong to a more knowing racethan dwelt on Avons side. His news from Terra Florida tells us of an ageof newstongues, before newspapers were. Doubtless such as he had many astory of home wonders ; he had seen London perhaps ; he could tell of Queensand Parliaments ; might have beheld a noble beheaded, or a heretic burnt; hecould speak, we may fancy, of the wonders of the sea; of ships laden with richmerchandize, unloading in havens far from this inland region ; of other shipswrecked on inhospitable coasts, and poor men made rich by the oceans for thought was there in all these things, seeds of poetry scattered carelessly, but not wastefuUy, in the ricli imaginative soil. [Ttie Fair.] The Fair is over; the booths are taken down ; the woollen statute-caps, whichthe commonest people refuse to wear because there is a penalty for not wearingthem, are packed up again ; the prohibited felt hats are all sold • the millineryhas found a ready market amongst the sturdy yeomen, who are r^areful to WILLIAM SHAKSPERE propitiate their home-staying wives after the fashion of the Wife of Bathshusbands :— I governed hem so well after my lawe,That eche of hem full blissful was, and faweTo briugen me gay thinges fro the feyre;They were full glade, &c. The juggler has packed up his cup and balls; the last cudgel-play has beenfought out:— Near the dying of the dayThere will be a a coxcomb will be broke,Ere a good word can be spoke :But the anger ends all here,Drenchd in ale, or drownd in beer. * Morning comes, and Stratford hears only the quiet steps of its native popula-tion. But upon the bench, under the walnut
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