. William Shakespere : a biography. ed to enable men to mix freely, aslong as they conducted themselves decorously. The barriers of modern societybelong to an age of pretension. The early dinner at Charlcote finished, the young visitors from Stratfordtake a circuitous road home over the Fulbrooke hills. The shooting season isapproaching, and they have to breathe their dogs. But after they have crossedBlack Hill they hear a loud shouting; and they know that the hurlers areabroad. Snitterfield is matched against Alveston ; and a crowd of players fromeach parish have, with vast exertion, been dri
. William Shakespere : a biography. ed to enable men to mix freely, aslong as they conducted themselves decorously. The barriers of modern societybelong to an age of pretension. The early dinner at Charlcote finished, the young visitors from Stratfordtake a circuitous road home over the Fulbrooke hills. The shooting season isapproaching, and they have to breathe their dogs. But after they have crossedBlack Hill they hear a loud shouting; and they know that the hurlers areabroad. Snitterfield is matched against Alveston ; and a crowd of players fromeach parish have, with vast exertion, been driving their ball over hills, dales,nedges, ditches,—yea, and thorough bushes, briars, mires, plashes, and rivers.^The cottage at the entrance of Fulbrooke is the goal. The Stratford youthsmust see the game played out, and curfew has rung before they reach home. • of England, 1586, p. 170 f Ibid,, p. 168. ij: Ibid. § Loves liabours Lost, Act iv., Scene ii. || Ibid., Act v., Scene l. ^ Carews .Survey of ( ^«^
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