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The Birth-Town of Shakspere, and the Vicinity Associated with the Poet's Name

The Birth-Town of Shakspere, and the Vicinity Associated with the Poet's Name

May, George

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ISBN10: 1151729922
ISBN13: 9781151729927
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 50
Weight: 0.19
Height: 0.11 Width: 9.01 Depth: 5.98
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1847. Excerpt: ... SHOTTERY AND LUDDINGTON--CHARLCOTE, HAMPTON-LUCY, AND ALVESTON CLOPTON, AND WELCOMBE-HILL. Among the peaceful and sequestered spots round Stratford which still retain much of old-English usages, and further are associated in our early thoughts with the career of Shakspere, --the nearest, and to us the one which ought to be first visited, is Shottery; the dwelling-place of Ann Hathaway, the substantial yeoman's daughter, who afterward became the poet's wife. The hamlet, for such it is, is within the extensive parish of Stratford, and is readily arrived at by a walk that branches off near the church-turn. This soon conducts us to the fields across which our great 52 SHOTTERY. precursor often walked at even-tide; at which season we, too, happened for the first time to cross them. The trimness of modern farming has recently done much to change the accompaniments of the pathway; though the course itself san be but little altered from that of yore. On reaching the place, we find the dwellings numerous, and most of them conveniently detached by intervening garden-ground; so that the hamlet stretches over a considerable space. In most instances, too, little has been done to impair the character of the tenements; which are still chiefly timber-framed, as in the poet's day. The memory of this, its most important, visitor, seems to be yet cherished by the inmates; judging, among other circumstances, from that sign-- The Shakespeare Tavern--which, from yon rustic alehouse, invites the straggler to its cool stoned-kitchen, its little boarded parlour, --or adjoining rural skittle-ground, fringed with Ophelian pansies and columbines and herb-grace. But leaving this, and having crossed the brook, we gain sight of the dwelling we are searching after. Its aspect is tha..

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