. William Shakespere : a biography. [Mill at Ouys Cliiri surrounding trees ; and, higher than all, Guys Tower. He would have heardthat this tower was not so called from the Saxon champion, the Guy of min-strelsy, whose statue, bearing shield and sword, he had often looked upon inthe chapel of St. Mary Magdalen at Guys Cliff. Tlie Tower was called after 164 Draytons P()]yoll>iou/ 22nd [Ancient Statue of Guy Rt Guys the Guy whose common name—a name of opprobrium fixed on him byGaveston—was associated with that of his maternal ancestors,—Guy, the BlackDog of Arden. And then the
. William Shakespere : a biography. [Mill at Ouys Cliiri surrounding trees ; and, higher than all, Guys Tower. He would have heardthat this tower was not so called from the Saxon champion, the Guy of min-strelsy, whose statue, bearing shield and sword, he had often looked upon inthe chapel of St. Mary Magdalen at Guys Cliff. Tlie Tower was called after 164 Draytons P()]yoll>iou/ 22nd [Ancient Statue of Guy Rt Guys the Guy whose common name—a name of opprobrium fixed on him byGaveston—was associated with that of his maternal ancestors,—Guy, the BlackDog of Arden. And then the tragedy of Blacklow Hill, as he recollected this,would present itself to his imagination. There is a prisoner standing in thegreat hall of Warwick Castle. He is unarmed ; he is clad in holiday vest-ments, but they are soiled and torn; his face is pale with fear and the fatigueof a night journey. By force has he been hurried some thirty miles across thecountry from Dedington, near Banbury; and amidst the shouts of soldieryand the rude clang of drum and trumpet has he entered the castle of hisenemies, where they are sitting upon the dais,—Warwick and Lancaster, andHereford and Arundel,—and the prisoner stands trembling before them, amonarchs minion, but one whom they have no right to punish. But thesentence is pronounced that he shall die. He sued for mercy to those whomhe had
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