. Shakespere: his birthplace and its neighborhood. s alone that should interest is the whole country. And as we go on to Stratford, * Por those who take a greater interest in the tradition of the Crab-treethan I can persuade myself to feel, a work has been published, entitled, TheLegend of Shaksperes Crab-tree, by C. F. Green. London, 1857. 92 SHAKSPERE AND HIS BIRTHPLACE. let us now and then stop, and look back, and watch theAutumn sunset fading behind us upon this our last walk,as Shakspere often must have seen it; flake upon flake ofcloud burning with fire behind the Binton Hills, and
. Shakespere: his birthplace and its neighborhood. s alone that should interest is the whole country. And as we go on to Stratford, * Por those who take a greater interest in the tradition of the Crab-treethan I can persuade myself to feel, a work has been published, entitled, TheLegend of Shaksperes Crab-tree, by C. F. Green. London, 1857. 92 SHAKSPERE AND HIS BIRTHPLACE. let us now and then stop, and look back, and watch theAutumn sunset fading behind us upon this our last walk,as Shakspere often must have seen it; flake upon flake ofcloud burning with fire behind the Binton Hills, and castingtheir rosy shadows to the far East, as if there another sun-rise was dawning upon us instead of night. And let us,too, rising from Shakspere even up to higher things, re-member, with some of that feeling of patriotism which somarks his plays, that this was the land, where at Edgehill,the first battle in the great struggle for English liberty wasfought, in— His native county, which so brave spirits hath bred. The Foot-Bridge at the At Luddingtcn. CHAPTER XL WARWICKSHIRE ORCHARDS AND HARVEST-HOMES. I remarked in the first chapter how happy an event it wasthat Shakspere should have been born in the centre ofEngland, amongst its pastures and its orchards. No poethas such a love for nature as Shakspere; and it is thisdeep, true love for her that ever gives him such a freshness, 94 SHAKSPERE AND HIS BIRTHPLACE. and a healthy tone. Take the invocation to Ceres in the Tempest (act iv. scene 1) :— Ceres, most bounteous lady, thy rich leas Of wheat, rye, barley, vetches, oats, and peas; Thy turfy mountains, where live nibbling sheep, And flat meads thatchd with stover, them to keep; Thy banks with peonied and lilied brims, Which spongy April at thy hest betrims, To make cold nymphs chaste crowns; and thy broom groves, Whose shadow the dismissed bachelor loves. Or his various descriptions of shepherds life in As You Like It, and other plays, but especially the famous on
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