The Life of William Shakespeare: Including Many Particulars Respecting the Poet and His Family Never Before Published |
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... in the will of Christopher Smyth alias Court of Stratford , made November 2d , 1586 , to which is subjoined a list of " detts due to me the sayd Christopher , " and at Stratford , where an action was brought by Nicholas 8 THE LIFE OF.
... in the will of Christopher Smyth alias Court of Stratford , made November 2d , 1586 , to which is subjoined a list of " detts due to me the sayd Christopher , " and at Stratford , where an action was brought by Nicholas 8 THE LIFE OF.
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... sayd Agnes Arderne ffor dyverse and sondry consyderations hath demysed graunted sett and to fferme lett , and by these presents demyseth graunteth setteth and to fferme letteth unto the said Alexander Webbe and to his assignes All those ...
... sayd Agnes Arderne ffor dyverse and sondry consyderations hath demysed graunted sett and to fferme lett , and by these presents demyseth graunteth setteth and to fferme letteth unto the said Alexander Webbe and to his assignes All those ...
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... sayd Agnes to the sayd Allexander Webb bearing date the one and twenteth daie of Maii in the second yeare of the raigne of the Queenes Majesties that nowe is for the terme of fortie yeares , if I the sayd Agnes so long doe lyve ; Of which ...
... sayd Agnes to the sayd Allexander Webb bearing date the one and twenteth daie of Maii in the second yeare of the raigne of the Queenes Majesties that nowe is for the terme of fortie yeares , if I the sayd Agnes so long doe lyve ; Of which ...
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... sayd cotages a yarde and a halfe of lande and all other the premysses with their appurtenaunces unto the said Alexander Webbe his exccuters and assignes for the said yearely rent in manner and fourme afforsaid , agaynst her and her ...
... sayd cotages a yarde and a halfe of lande and all other the premysses with their appurtenaunces unto the said Alexander Webbe his exccuters and assignes for the said yearely rent in manner and fourme afforsaid , agaynst her and her ...
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... sayd children untyll the come to the age of discrecion . Item , I geve and bequethe to John Payge and his wyfe , the longer liver off them , vj.s. viij.d. , and to John Page his brother , j . strike of wheat and one strike of maulte . I ...
... sayd children untyll the come to the age of discrecion . Item , I geve and bequethe to John Payge and his wyfe , the longer liver off them , vj.s. viij.d. , and to John Page his brother , j . strike of wheat and one strike of maulte . I ...
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Page 144 - Sweet Swan of Avon ! what a sight it were To see thee in our waters yet appear, And make those flights upon the banks of Thames, That so did take Eliza, and our James...
Page 120 - And though this, probably the first essay of his poetry, be lost, yet it is said to have been so very bitter, that it redoubled the prosecution against him to that degree that he was...
Page 175 - I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never blotted out a line. My answer hath been, Would he had blotted a thousand.
Page 120 - Upon his leaving school, he seems to have given entirely into that way of living which his father proposed to him ; and, in order to settle in the world after a family manner, he thought fit to marry while he was yet very young. His wife was the daughter of one Hathaway, said to have been a substantial yeoman in the neighbourhood of Stratford.
Page 127 - O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand.
Page 181 - As Epius Stolo said that the Muses would speake with Plautus tongue, if they would speak Latin; so I say that the Muses would speak with Shakespeares fine filed phrase, if they would speake English.
Page 138 - I am as sorry as if the original fault had been my fault, because myself have seen his demeanour no less civil than he excellent in the quality he professes: besides, divers of worship have reported his uprightness of dealing which argues his honesty, and his facetious grace in writing, that approves his art.
Page 189 - At our feast wee had a play called 'twelve Night, or what you will'; much like the commedy of errores, or Menechmi in Plautus, but most like and neere to that in Italian called Inganni. A good practise in it to make the Steward...
Page 136 - And thou no less deserving than the other two, in some things rarer, in nothing inferior; driven (as myself) to extreme shifts, a little have I to say to thee: and were it not an idolatrous oath, I would swear by sweet S. George, thou art unworthy better hap, sith * thou dependest on so mean a stay.
Page 77 - Avon, one Combes, an old rich usurer, was to be buryed, he makes there this extemporary epitaph, Ten in the hundred the Devill allowes, But Combes will have twelve, he sweares and vowes : If any one askes who lies in this tombe, ' Hoh ! ' quoth the Devill,