. Shakespeare's England . ng along the side-walk, and cried out to a friend, Here comes UrsaMajor. For the true lovers of literature Ursa Majorwalks oftener in Fleet Street to-day than any living good thread of literary research might be profitablyfollowed by him who should trace the footsteps of allthe poets that have held, in England, the office of laure-ate. John Kay was laureate in the reign of Edward IV.;Andrew Bernard in that of Henry VH.; John Skeltonin that of Henry VHI.; and Edmund Spenser in that rented of Lord Althorpe, and entered on March 28, 1814; and Piccadilly, whe
. Shakespeare's England . ng along the side-walk, and cried out to a friend, Here comes UrsaMajor. For the true lovers of literature Ursa Majorwalks oftener in Fleet Street to-day than any living good thread of literary research might be profitablyfollowed by him who should trace the footsteps of allthe poets that have held, in England, the office of laure-ate. John Kay was laureate in the reign of Edward IV.;Andrew Bernard in that of Henry VH.; John Skeltonin that of Henry VHI.; and Edmund Spenser in that rented of Lord Althorpe, and entered on March 28, 1814; and Piccadilly, where his daughter, Ada, was born, and where Lady Byronleft him. This, at present, is the home of the genial scholar Sir AlgernonBorthwick (1893). John Murrays house, where Byrons fragment ofAutobiography was burned, is in Albemarle Street. Byrons body, whenbrought home from Greece, lay in state at No. 25 Great George Street,Westminster, before being taken north, to Hucknall-Torkard church, inNottinghamshire, for burial. .(v. .->^f mv^. ? &0 192 SHAKESPEARES ENGLAND chap. of Elizabeth. Since then the succession has includedthe names of Samuel Daniel, Michael Drayton, BenJonson, Sir William Davenant, John Dryden, ThomasShadwell, Nahum Tate, Nicholas Rowe, LawrenceEusden, Colley Gibber, William Whitehead, ThomasWharton, Henry James Pye, Robert Southey, WilliamWordsworth, and Alfred Tennyson — who, until hisdeath, in 1892, wore, in spotless renown, that Laurel greener from the browsOf him that uttefd nothing base. Most of those bards were intimately associated withLondon, and several of them are buried in the is, indeed, because so many storied names are writ-ten upon gravestones that the explorer of the oldchurches of London finds so rich a harvest of impres-sive association and lofty thought. Few persons visitthem, and you are likely to find yourself comparativelyalone in rambles of this kind. I went one morninginto St. Martin — once in the fields, now in one ofthe
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