. William Shakespere : a biography. youth in the fear of God, that did converse with her, mostrare and singular. A great maintainer of hospitality ; greatly esteemed of her betters; misliliedof none unless of the envious. When all is spoken that can be said, a woman so furnished andgarnished with vii-tuo as not to be bettered, and hardly to be equalled of any. As she lived mostvirtuously, so she dietl most godly. Set down by him tliat best dion the brook that brawls along hia wocxl, and doubt not that there was the place to wliich A poor sequesterM . from the hunters aim had taen a h
. William Shakespere : a biography. youth in the fear of God, that did converse with her, mostrare and singular. A great maintainer of hospitality ; greatly esteemed of her betters; misliliedof none unless of the envious. When all is spoken that can be said, a woman so furnished andgarnished with vii-tuo as not to be bettered, and hardly to be equalled of any. As she lived mostvirtuously, so she dietl most godly. Set down by him tliat best dion the brook that brawls along hia wocxl, and doubt not that there was the place to wliich A poor sequesterM . from the hunters aim had taen a hurt,Did come to languish. * There may we still see A careless of the pasture, leaping gaily along, or crossing the river at their own will in search of fresljfields and low branches whereon to browse. We must associate Charlcote withhappy circumstances. Let us make it the scene of a m .V [IIouso in Charlcote ViUage.] The village of Charlcote is now one of the prettiest of objects. Whatever isnew about it—and most of the cottages are new—looks Uke a restoration of whatwas old. The same character prevails in the neighbouring village of HamptonLucy; and it may not be too much to assume that the memory of him whowalked in these pleasant places in his younger days, long before the sound ofliis greatness had gone forth to the ends of the earth, has led to the desire to{^reserve here something of the architectural character of the age in which helived. There are a few old houses still left in Charlcote; but the more im- * Ab You I-ike It, Act n., Scene i. 21:1 WILLIAM SHAKSPEKE : portant have probably been swept away. In one such house, then, about a year wewill sav before William Shaksperes own marriage, we may picture a small partyassembled to be present at a solemn rite. There can be little doubt that the ancientceremony of betrothing had not fallen into disuse a
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