. Shakespere: his birthplace and its neighborhood. Autograph and Seal of Sir Thomas Stratford, from Welcomrje Grounds. CHAPTER VII. WELCOMBE AND SNITTERFIELD. Whilst it is still spring — still proud-pied April/ asShakspere beautifully calls his natal month—we will wanderto some more of the places connected with his name. Youcan go nowhere round Stratford that is not associated withhim. It is to me always a most enjoyable feeling, to know WELCOMBE AND SNITTERFIELD. 59 I am breathing the air that Shakspere breathed, and amwandering where he wandered, and where he must havefelt all the mig
. Shakespere: his birthplace and its neighborhood. Autograph and Seal of Sir Thomas Stratford, from Welcomrje Grounds. CHAPTER VII. WELCOMBE AND SNITTERFIELD. Whilst it is still spring — still proud-pied April/ asShakspere beautifully calls his natal month—we will wanderto some more of the places connected with his name. Youcan go nowhere round Stratford that is not associated withhim. It is to me always a most enjoyable feeling, to know WELCOMBE AND SNITTERFIELD. 59 I am breathing the air that Shakspere breathed, and amwandering where he wandered, and where he must havefelt all the mighty ravishment of Spring. To-day wewill go to Welcombe. Our road lies by the back of thetown, and then through fields, until we reach what arecalled the dingles —trenches, most probably, formed,in the first place, by natural causes, and then artificiallydeepened. Shakspere must have often come this way, forhis father possessed property a little farther on, at Snitter-field. And here, still in the Welcombe grounds, stand oldgnarled thorn-trees, to-day just budding, which the poetm
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