. William Shakespere : a biography. might have influenced the young poet inthe choice of the latter subject would be concentrated, in a great degree, uponWarwick Castle. The hero of these wars was unquestionably Richard was a Beauchamp who fought at Agincourt in that goodly company whowere to be remembered to the ending of the world,— Harry the king, Bedford and Exeter, Warwick aud Talbot, Salisbury and Gloucester. He ordained in his will that in his chapel at Warwick three masses everydayshould be sung as long as the world might endure. The masses have longsince ceased ; but his to
. William Shakespere : a biography. might have influenced the young poet inthe choice of the latter subject would be concentrated, in a great degree, uponWarwick Castle. The hero of these wars was unquestionably Richard was a Beauchamp who fought at Agincourt in that goodly company whowere to be remembered to the ending of the world,— Harry the king, Bedford and Exeter, Warwick aud Talbot, Salisbury and Gloucester. He ordained in his will that in his chapel at Warwick three masses everydayshould be sung as long as the world might endure. The masses have longsince ceased ; but his tomb still stands, and he has a memorial that will lastlonger than his tomb. The chronicler passes over his fame at Agincourt, butthe dramatist records it. Did the poets familiarity with those noble towers inwhich the Beauchamp had lived suggest this honour to his memory ? Buthere, at any rate, was the stronghold of the Neville. Here, when the land wasat peace in the dead slr,(?p nf weaJc s^overnracnt, which was to be by. /-^xJi^y. \%*^ ^^ [Entrance to Waiwick Castle.] fearful action, the great Earl dwelt with more than a monarchs pomp, havinghis own officer-at-arms called Warwick herald, with hundreds of friends anddependants bearing about his badge of the ragged staft; for whose boundlesshospitality there was daily provision made as for the wants of an army ; whosemanors and castles and houses were to be numbered in almost every county;and who not only had pre-eminence over every Earl in the land, but, as GreatCaptain of the Sea, received to his own use the Kings tonnage and William Shakspere looked upon this castle in his youth, a peaceful Earldwelt within it, the brother of the proud Leicester—the sou of the ambitiousNorthumberland who had suffered death in the attempt to make Lady JaneGrey queen, but whose heir had been restored in blood by Mary. WarwickCastle, in the reign of Elizabeth, was peaceful as the river which glided by it,the most beauti
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