. Shakespere: his birthplace and its neighborhood. over his fellow-dramatists sprang not so muchfrom his intellect as from his higher moral power. Even Ulrici and the best German critics fall into thiscommon error of Shakspere living on bad terms with hiswife, perhaps not knowing, as Mr. Knight first showed,that she was already provided for by her dowry, andthere was therefore no occasion for her to be mentionedin his will. There is, however, direct testimony of atleast her love for her husband, which has been previ-ously quoted, in her affecting and touching wish to beburied with him in his g
. Shakespere: his birthplace and its neighborhood. over his fellow-dramatists sprang not so muchfrom his intellect as from his higher moral power. Even Ulrici and the best German critics fall into thiscommon error of Shakspere living on bad terms with hiswife, perhaps not knowing, as Mr. Knight first showed,that she was already provided for by her dowry, andthere was therefore no occasion for her to be mentionedin his will. There is, however, direct testimony of atleast her love for her husband, which has been previ-ously quoted, in her affecting and touching wish to beburied with him in his grave. To suppose that Shakspere and his wife had no griefs,no embitterments, is to suppose what never happened totwo people on this earth. But griefs, if wisely taken,only the more endear affection; and that was, no doubt,the use to which Shakspere turned his trials and , whether wedded or unwedded, is action springingfrom suffering; and the greater the man, and the finerand tenderer his conscience, the more he realizes Avon at the Weir Brake. CHAPTER IX. THE AVON—LUDDINGTON—WELEORD. We must wait till midsummer to go by the side of theAvon, for then it is in its greatest beauty. So, on somewarm day in June will we go. There is a path on bothsides of the river, but we will pass over the foot-bridgeat the mill, and ascend the cross of the Hill, for herewe shall find a spot curiously connected with Shakspere. <6 SHAKSPEKE AND HIS BIRTHPLACE. I beseech you, sir/ says Davy to Justice Shallow, inthe second part of King Henry IV. (act v. scene 1), a tocountenance William Visor of Wincot against ClementPerkes of the Hill; to whom the Justice replies : Thereare many complaints, Davy, against that Visor; that Visoris an arrant knave on my knowledge. Now the Cherry-Orchard Farm, close to which we are, is still called theHill Farm; and whoever lives there is to this day spokenof as Mr. A., or Mr. B., of the Hill, and is so namedfrom time immemorial in the
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