Stratford-on-Avon from the Earliest Times to the Death of Shakespeare |
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aldermen almshouses Alveston ancient Avon bailiff Bidford Bishop of Worcester borough Bridge Street brother building burgesses chamber chantry Chapel Lane Chapel Street Charlecote chief Clopton Combe's corn corporation cote Park cottage Cross death deer doubtless early Edward Elizabethan enclosure England estates fair father feast fifteenth ford formed fourpence fraternity garden gatehouse guild guildhall hall Henley Street Henry Henry Field High Street Holy house in Henley inhabitants John of Stratford John Shake John Shakespeare land lived London Lord Love's Labour's Lost manor master mediæval ment municipal neighbouring village parish church pewter Place play poet poor pounds priests probably Quiney religious Richard Rother Market Shakespeare's day shillings Shottery Sir Hugh Sir Thomas Lucy sixteenth century Snitterfield speare stood Strat Stratford-on-Avon Thomas Lucy town council townsmen trade tradition Trinity villein Warwick Warwickshire Welcombe wife William William Shakespeare Wilmecote Worcestershire youth
Popular passages
Page 183 - My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind, So flew'd, so sanded ; and their heads are hung With ears that sweep away the morning dew ; Crook-knee'd, and dew-lapp'd like Thessalian bulls ; Slow in pursuit, but match'd in mouth like bells, Each under each. A cry more tuneable Was never holla'd to, nor cheer'd with horn, In Crete, in Sparta, nor in Thessaly : Judge when you hear.
Page 110 - tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners ; so that if we will plant nettles or sow lettuce, set hyssop and weed up thyme, supply it with one gender of herbs or distract it with many, either to have it sterile with idleness or manured with industry, why, the power and corrigible authority of this lies in our wills.
Page 265 - Witty above her sexe, but that's not all, Wise to salvation was good Mistris Hall. Something of Shakespeare was in that, but this Wholy of him with whom she's now in blisse.
Page 208 - He was much given to all unluckiness, in stealing venison and rabbits ; particularly from Sir Lucy, who had him oft whipped, and sometimes imprisoned, and at last made him fly his native country, to his great advancement. But his revenge was so great, that he is his Justice Clodpate, and calls him a great man, and that, in allusion to his name, bore three louses rampant for his arms.
Page 190 - The pleasant'st angling is to see the fish Cut with her golden oars the silver stream, And greedily devour the treacherous bait...
Page 138 - Alack, alack! is it not like that I, So early waking, what with loathsome smells, And shrieks like mandrakes' torn out of the earth, That living mortals, hearing them, run mad: O!
Page 162 - That from top to toe the skin is away;' and a story is repeated of how a scholar was tormented to death by ' his bloody master.' Other accounts show that the playwright has not gone far beyond the fact.
Page 207 - A parliament member, a justice of peace, At home a poor scarecrow, at London an asse, If lowsie is Lucy, as some volke miscalle it, Then Lucy is lowsie, whatever befall it. He thinks himself great ; Yet an asse in his state, We allow by his ears but with asses to mate, If Lucy is lowsie, as some volke miscalle it, Then sing lowsie Lucy whatever befall it.
Page 207 - A parliament member, a justice of peace, " At home a poor scare-crow, at London an asse, '' If lowsie is Lucy, as some volke miscalle it, " Then Lucy is lowsie whatever befall it : " He thinks himself greate, " Yet an asse in his state, " We allowe by his ears but with asses to mate, " If Lucy is lowsie, as some volke miscalle it, " Sing lowsie Lucy, whatever befall it.
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