 | Electronic journals - 1893 - 688 pages
...Mr. Ward, then newly come to Stratford as vicar : " Shakespeare, Drayton, and Ben Jonson had a mery meeting, and it seems drank too hard, for Shakespeare died of a feavour there contracted." The vicar adds, " Remember to peruse Shakespeare's plays and bee versed in them that I may not bee... | |
 | 1858 - 448 pages
...all ;" and in reference to his death says, that " Shakespeare, Drayton, and Ben Jonson had a merry meeting, and it seems drank too hard ; for Shakespeare died of a fever there contracted." Davies says that he was " much given to all unluckiness in stealing venison... | |
 | English literature - 1861 - 522 pages
...memorandum-book written in the year 1GG 2, asserts that "Shakespeare, Drayton, and Ben Jonson had a merry meeting, and, it seems, drank too hard, for Shakespeare died of a fever there contracted." Mr. Ward ought to have known better than to have recorded such a bit of stupidity,... | |
 | Stephen Watson Fullom - Dramatists, English - 1864 - 394 pages
...being visited at this time by Drayton and Ben Jonson—" Shakespeare, Drayton, and Jonson, had a merry meeting, and it seems drank too hard, for Shakespeare died of a fever there contracted." Mr. Dyce thinks that" Drayton, a native of Warwickshire, and frequently in... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1864 - 1056 pages
...times of Shakespeare, reports that " Shakespeare, Drayton, and Ben Jonson had a merie meeting, and itt seems drank too hard, for Shakespeare died of a feavour there contracted." The tradition is not discredited by some of his commentators ; unfortunately such "merie meetings"... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1865 - 624 pages
...know what Vicar Ward aforesaid heard and noted down half a century after the event. His account is : " Shakespeare, Drayton, and Ben Jonson had a merrie...drank too hard, for Shakespeare died of a feavour ther contracted." We shrink from the thought of such a close of Shakespeare's life. But looking back... | |
 | Richard Grant White - English drama - 1865 - 454 pages
...know what Vicar Ward aforesaid heard and noted down half a century after the event. His account is : "Shakespeare, Drayton, and Ben Jonson had a merrie...drank too hard, for Shakespeare died of a feavour ther contracted." We shrink from the thought of such a close of Shakespeare's life. But looking back... | |
 | Great Britain - 1865 - 792 pages
...at the rate of 1 ,0:1.1/. a year, as I have heard. Shakespeare, Drayton, and Ben Jonson had a merry meeting, and it seems drank too hard ; for Shakespeare died of a fever there contracted. Remember to peruse Shakespeare'» plays and bo versed in them, that I may not... | |
 | Richard Grant White - English drama - 1866 - 456 pages
...aforesaid heard and noted down half a century after the event. His account is: " Shakespeare, Dray ton, and Ben Jonson had a merrie meeting, and it seems drank too hard, for Shakespeare died of a feavour ther contracted." We shrink from the thought of such a close of Shakespeare's life. But looking back... | |
 | American literature - 1879 - 592 pages
...entry, as (fiven by Mr. White, is as follows : " Shakespeare, Drayton, and Ben Jonson had a raerie meeting, and, it seems, drank too hard, for Shakespeare died of a feaver there contracted." has not only kept all his borrowed feathers, but is arrayed each passing... | |
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Shakespeare, Drayton, and Ben Jonson had a merry meeting, and, it seems, drank too hard ; for Shakespeare died of a fever there contracted. 
