. William Shakespere : a biography. ause he telleth them not Air true, he lieth not, unless we will say thatNathan lied in his speech, befoi-e alleged, to David; which as a wicked man durst scarce saV; sothink I none so simple would say that iEnop lied in the tales of his beasts; for who thinketh wrote it for actually true were well worthy to have his name chronicled among the bea-sts hewriteth of. What child is there that, coming to play and seeing Thebes written in great lettersupon an old door, doth believe that it is Thebes ? If then a man can arrive to the childs .age, toknow t
. William Shakespere : a biography. ause he telleth them not Air true, he lieth not, unless we will say thatNathan lied in his speech, befoi-e alleged, to David; which as a wicked man durst scarce saV; sothink I none so simple would say that iEnop lied in the tales of his beasts; for who thinketh wrote it for actually true were well worthy to have his name chronicled among the bea-sts hewriteth of. What child is there that, coming to play and seeing Thebes written in great lettersupon an old door, doth believe that it is Thebes ? If then a man can arrive to the childs .age, toknow that the poets persons and doings are but pictures what should be, and not stories what havebeen, they will never give the lie to things not affirmatively, but allegorically and figuratively,wi-itten; and therefore, as in history, looking for truth, they may go away full fraught with falsehood, so in poesy, looking but for fiction, they sliall use the nairation but as an imaginative ground-plat of a profitable invention. LiVfc L 145. I) [Gu3s Cliff in the 17th Century.] >\c CHAPTER XI. LIVING IN THE PAST. The earliest, and the most permanent, of poetical associations are those whichare impressed upon the mind by localities which have a deep historical would be difficult to find a district possessing more striking remains of a pasttime than the neighbourhood in which William Shakspere spent his poetical feeling which the battle-fields, and castles, and monastic ruins ofmid England would excite in him, may be reasonably considered to have derivedan intensity through the real history of these celebrated spots being vague, andfor the most part traditional. The age of local historians had not yet monuments of the past were indeed themselves much more fresh and per-fect than in the subsequent days, when every tomb inscription was copied, andevery mouldering document set forth. But in the year 1580, if William Shak-spere desired to know, or example,
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