. William Shakespere : a biography. translations, and bycopying extracts from grammars and dictionaries; as if it was reserved for suchmiracles of talent and industrv as the Farmers and the Steevenses to read Ovidand Virgil in their original tongues, whilst the dull Shakspere, whether school-boy or adult, was to be contented through life with the miserable translationsrf Arthur Golding and Thomas Phaer.* We believe that his familiarity atleast with the best Roman writers was begun early, and continued late; andthat he, of all boys of Stratford, would be the least likely to discredit the teach-
. William Shakespere : a biography. translations, and bycopying extracts from grammars and dictionaries; as if it was reserved for suchmiracles of talent and industrv as the Farmers and the Steevenses to read Ovidand Virgil in their original tongues, whilst the dull Shakspere, whether school-boy or adult, was to be contented through life with the miserable translationsrf Arthur Golding and Thomas Phaer.* We believe that his familiarity atleast with the best Roman writers was begun early, and continued late; andthat he, of all boys of Stratford, would be the least likely to discredit the teach-ing of Thomas Hunt and Thomas Jenkins, the masters of the grammar-schoolfrom 1572 till 1580. The happy days of boyhood are nearly over. William Shakspere no longerlooks for the close of tlie day when, in that humble chamber in Henley Street,his father shall hear something of his school progress, and read with him ^ * See a series of learned and spirited pajjers by Dr. Matjiuu on Farmers Essay, printed iiFrazers Magazine. WILLIAM SIIAKSPEPC NOTE ON THE COVENTRY PAGEANTS. The Chester Mysteries, which appear greatly to have resembled those of Coventry, werefuiilly sui)pressod in 1574. Archdeacon Rogers, who in his MSS. rejoices that such a cloudof ignorance would be no more seen, appears to have been an eye-wituess of their performance,of which he has left the following description :—(See Marklands Introduction to a Specimenof the Chester Mysteries.) Now of the playes of Chester, called the Whitson playes, when the weare played, and whatoccupations bringe forthe at theire charges the playes or pagisintes. Heare note that these playes of Chester, called the Whitson playes, weare the worke of oneKondell, a Moncke of the Abbaye of Sainte Warburghe in Chester, who redused the whole his-torye of the bible into englishe storyes in metter in the euglishe tounge; and this Monke, in agood desire to doe good, published the same. Then the firste maior of Chester, namely, S John
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