. Shakespeare's love story, 1580-1609. asy might I from myself departAs from my soul, which in thy breast doth lie:That is my home of love; if I have him that travels I return to the time, not with the time that myself bring water for my stain:Never believe, though in my nature reignedAll frailties that besiege all kinds of blood, [76] Judith Shakespeare It is my fathers willI should take on meThe hostess-ship o theday. Reverend you theres rose-mary and rue . .Grace and remem-brance be to you.—The WintersTale. That it could so preposterously be stai
. Shakespeare's love story, 1580-1609. asy might I from myself departAs from my soul, which in thy breast doth lie:That is my home of love; if I have him that travels I return to the time, not with the time that myself bring water for my stain:Never believe, though in my nature reignedAll frailties that besiege all kinds of blood, [76] Judith Shakespeare It is my fathers willI should take on meThe hostess-ship o theday. Reverend you theres rose-mary and rue . .Grace and remem-brance be to you.—The WintersTale. That it could so preposterously be staind,To leave for nothing all thy sum of good;For nothing this wide universe I call,Save thou, my rose; in it, thou art my all. The high hopes with which the Strat-ford youth went forth to seek fame andfortune are at last more than the end of twenty-one years he haswritten plays which fill the theatres andwhich all eagerly wish to read; he isthe delight of all circles where wits meetor beauty shines; is known as the [77]. Shakespeares love story mellifluous and honey-tongued. thefacile writer of sugred Sonnets amonghis private friends. So highly gifteda being cannot fail to pass through,either in his own person or by sympathy,all of lifes most searching than commonly accessible is suchan one to temptations of the senses, theheart, the imagination. Of such, manysonnets stand in confession. The wayis long and not always pleasant to follow,nor is it necessary. That in the mainhis eye was fixed on the highest things,that at heart he was always true to loveand home and family, he who runs mayread. Before he has been ten yearsabsent he has taken steps to restore thefamily fortune and to bring the name ofShakespeare back into local repute; haspurchased a fine house, where wife andchildren await eagerly his annual visits;is always looking forward to his ownfinal return to the peaceful fireside and [78]
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