The comedies, histories, tragedies, and poems of William Shakspere . e also liable to thepenalties of the gaol and the stocks, unless theycould produce letters testimonial from the chan-cellor of their respective imiversities. It is notunlikely that in the journeys of these hundredsof poor scholars they should have occasionallytaken a purse as well as begged an almesse,and that some of St. Nicholass clerks shouldhave become as celebrated for the same ac-complishments which distinguished Bardolphand Peto at Gadshill, as for the learned povertywhich entitled them to travel with a chancel-lors li
The comedies, histories, tragedies, and poems of William Shakspere . e also liable to thepenalties of the gaol and the stocks, unless theycould produce letters testimonial from the chan-cellor of their respective imiversities. It is notunlikely that in the journeys of these hundredsof poor scholars they should have occasionallytaken a purse as well as begged an almesse,and that some of St. Nicholass clerks shouldhave become as celebrated for the same ac-complishments which distinguished Bardolphand Peto at Gadshill, as for the learned povertywhich entitled them to travel with a chancel-lors licence. ^- Scene I.— The cover of the salt hides thesalt. The large salt-cellar of the dinner-table was amassive piece of plate, with a cover equally sub-stantial. There was only one salt-cellar on theboard, which was placed near the top of thetable; and the distinction of those who satabove and below the salt was universally recog-nised. The following representation of a salt-cellar, a, with its cover, b, presented to QueenElizabeth, is from Nicholss *^ Scene II. Therefore, as you unwind her love from it shoidd ravel, and be good to none,You mu£t provide to bottom it on image, derived from the labours of thesempstress, had found its way into Englishpoetry before the time of Shakspere :— A bottom for your silk, it seemsMy letters are become,Which, oft with winding off and on,Are wasted whole and some. Granges Garden, 1557. 74 ILLUSTEATTONS. ACT IV. [act IV. ^* Scene I.— Jiubin Hoods fat friar. The jolly Friar Tuck of the old Eobin Hoodballads—the almost equally famous Friar Tuckof Ivanhoe—is the personage whom the out-laws here invoke. It is unnecessary for us toenter upon the legends Of Tuck, the merry friar, which many a sermon made,In praise of Robin Mood, his outlaws, and his trade, as Drayton has it. It may be sufficient to givea representation of his bare scalp. The fol-lowing illustration is copied, with a little im-provement in th
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