. William Shakespere : a biography. [Charlcote Cliuieh.] II.—The Weuding. Charlcote :—the name is familiar to every reader of Shakspere , but it is notpresented to the world under the influence of pleasant associations with theworlds poet. The story, which was first told by Rowe, must be here repeated : An extravagance that he was guilty of forced him both out of his country,and that way of living which he had taken up ; and though it seemed at first tobe a blemish upon his good manners, and a misfortune to him, yet it afterwardshappily proved the occasion of exerting one of the greatest geniu
. William Shakespere : a biography. [Charlcote Cliuieh.] II.—The Weuding. Charlcote :—the name is familiar to every reader of Shakspere , but it is notpresented to the world under the influence of pleasant associations with theworlds poet. The story, which was first told by Rowe, must be here repeated : An extravagance that he was guilty of forced him both out of his country,and that way of living which he had taken up ; and though it seemed at first tobe a blemish upon his good manners, and a misfortune to him, yet it afterwardshappily proved the occasion of exerting one of the greatest geniuses that everwas known in dramatic poetry. He had, by a misfortune common enough toyoung fellows, fallen into ill company, and, amongst them, some that made afrequent practice of deer-stealing engaged him more than once in robbing apark that belonged to Sir Thomas Lucy, of Charlcote, near Stratford. For thishe was prosecuted by that gentleman, as he thought, somewhat too severely;and, in order to revenge that ill usage, he made
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