Excerpt from The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: From the Text of Johnson and Steevens
The assistance, however, which the poet ren dered his father in his business, was not of long duration. He had just attained the age of eighteen, when he married. The object of this early attachment was Anne, the daughter of Richard Hathaway, a substantial yeoman, in the neighbourhood of his native town. She was eight years older than her husband and Oldys, without stating his authority, in one of his mss. Mentions her as beautifiil. It may be feared that this marriage was not perfectly happy.
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