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Three or four years, as it is believed, after his marriage Shakespeare quitted his native town. 'he had,' says his first biographer, Rowe, 'by a misfortune, common enough to young fellows, fallen into ill company, and, amongst them, some that made a frequent practice of deer-stealing engaged him more than once in robbing a park that belonged to Sir Thomas Lucy, of Charlecote, near Stratford. For this he was prosecuted by that gentleman, as he thought, somewhat too severely; and, in order to revenge that ill-usage, he made a ballad upon him. And though this, probably the first essay of his poetry, be lost, yet it is said to have been so very bitter that it re doubled the prosecution against him to that degree that he was obliged to leave his business and family in Warwickshire for some time, and shelter himself in London.' It seems likely that in essentials the story thus reported by Rowe is true, and a verse of the ballad - whether genuine or written, as is more likely, to suit the story - has been given by Oldys. In The Merry Wives of Windsor Justice Shallow complains of Falstaff 's having killed his deer; there are 'luces' in the Shallow coat-of arms as in that of the Lucy family, which luces in the Welsh parson's pronunciation become louses' - a play on words occurring also in the alleged stanza of Shakespeare's offensive ballad.
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Three or four years, as it is believed, after his marriage Shakespeare quitted his native town. 'he had,' says his first biographer, Rowe, 'by a misfortune, common enough to young fellows, fallen into ill company, and, amongst them, some that made a frequent practice of deer-stealing engaged him more than once in robbing a park that belonged to Sir Thomas Lucy, of Charlecote, near Stratford. For this he was prosecuted by that gentleman, as he thought, somewhat too severely; and, in order to revenge that ill-usage, he made a ballad upon him. And though this, probably the first essay of his poetry, be lost, yet it is said to have been so very bitter that it re doubled the prosecution against him to that degree that he was obliged to leave his business and family in Warwickshire for some time, and shelter himself in London.' It seems likely that in essentials the story thus reported by Rowe is true, and a verse of the ballad - whether genuine or written, as is more likely, to suit the story - has been given by Oldys. In The Merry Wives of Windsor Justice Shallow complains of Falstaff 's having killed his deer; there are 'luces' in the Shallow coat-of arms as in that of the Lucy family, which luces in the Welsh parson's pronunciation become louses' - a play on words occurring also in the alleged stanza of Shakespeare's offensive ballad.
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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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- ISBN 13 9781333579173
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- Number of pages30
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