William Shakespeare, Pedagogue & Poacher: A DramaJohn Lane, 1904 - 111 pages Autograph manuscript by Richard Garnett. Drama in two acts, published in 1905. |
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Anna ATTENDANTS AND USHERS aught banished beam of royal Blazoning boys Charlcote comedy CONSTABLE crossbows deem devil Dicer discourse doth Earl of Leicester earth Enter ANN SHAKESPEARE errand erst Exit fain favour FORESTERS FOURTH SCHOLAR gentle grace had'st haply hath hearken heart heaven honour horse hounds Hush imprisonment innocence LADY LUCY Ladyship light Lord magistrate maliceth manacles Master Clerk Master Shakespeare may'st Mistress Shakespeare MOLES moon moonshine MOTHER ne'er neath night noble nought path PEDAGOGUE AND POACHER poaching Poet porridge Ratcatcher scape SCENE SECOND SCHOLAR seek sentence Shake shines Shrew SIR THOMAS LUCY SIXTH SCHOLAR slandered soothe soul speare speech spirit stand steal stoat Stratford sudden theatre thee thine things THIRD SCHOLAR thou did'st Thou dost thou hast Thou knowest thyself tongue truth unto venison villain Warwickshire weep wert Wherefore whipping WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE PEDAGOGUE woman wood Would'st thou youth
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Page 75 - My mind is troubled, like a fountain stirred : And I myself see not the bottom of it. [Exeunt ACHILLES and PATROCLUS. Ther. 'Would the fountain of your mind were clear again, that I might water an ass at it ! I had rather be a tick in a sheep, than such a valiant ignorance.
Page 5 - He was much given to all unluckiness, in stealing venison and rabbits ; particularly from Sir Lucy, who had him oft whipped, and sometimes imprisoned, and at last made him fly his native country, to his great advancement. But his revenge was so great, that he is his Justice Clodpate, and calls him a great man, and that, in allusion to his name, bore three louses rampant for his arms.
Page 5 - According to this authority the future great dramatist was "much given to all unluckiness in stealing venison and rabbits, particularly from Sir Thomas Lucy, who had him oft whipped and sometimes imprisoned, and at last made him fly his native county to his great advancement...
Page 96 - ... shepherd Have shared it among all, what ravages Of devastation he had spared the world! Trojaque nunc stares, Priamique arx alta maneres. What Paris might not do, Sir Thomas may: And being, like him, confronted with the charms Of three most beauteous competitors, Banishment, flagellation, durrance vile, And not like him, corrupted with a bribe, Or violently in my proper person Enamoured of their most divine embraces, I do award the apple unto all. That is to say, Shakespeare shall first be whipped,...
Page 103 - This argues A generous strain in thee, and lordly instincts. Deer-killing came in with the Conqueror. Hast any record of thy lineage? SHAKESPEARE. An ancestor of mine, so please your Lordship, In our third Henry's reign was high exalted. [Aside.] Upon the gallows. LEICESTER. Like lot shall be thine. SHAKESPEARE [aside]. The Lord forbid! LEICESTER. If thou do justify Opinion by her Majesty conceived Of thy facetious wit and parts. She hath heard A little toy of thine, a comedy (Tis called, I think,...
Page 97 - m afeard to touch the man. Thou heardest? he hath a familiar spirit, Perchance an impish sootikin, but haply Tail-switching Lucifer, Hell's emperor. SHAKESPEARE. Aye, man, I hold in fee ten thousand spirits, And more can summon from the vasty deep, Who at my word shall seize thy knight and thee, And set bemocked upon the public stage, Stuff for the humorous world's derision. THE CONSTABLE. What did I tell your honour ? THE PUBLIC [from the lower end of the Court]. Place ! give place ! A messenger...
Page 107 - Whom deaths of lovers slain most treacherouslyImpel to hurl the Dons to Devildom; Dicer and cut-purse, page, groom, beggar, minstrel; Courtesans, fortune-tellers, desperadoes; Armourers and devisers of strange engines; And knights too corpulent to fight or fly. And other matter shall thou find, arrays Of marching hosts, pent cities, trenched leaguers, Sallies, alarms, encounters, skirmishes, Duels and deaths, and, chief of all, examples Most noble, in whose brightness thou may'st sit, And as an eagle...
Page 90 - The letter of the law at all, indulgenceTrust me, Sir Thomas, such slight condescensions Would make thee, in thy sphere, as England's Queen, Whose throne is builded on her people's hearts. Now, did I tell this populace I took Thy deer for public cause, they would acclaim me, Shakespeare, the Robin Hood of Warwickshire. I shall not tell them, 'twere but half the truth. I am the people's poet, not their tribune. Sport pointed me the way with beechen spear, And Youth, too young to know what conscience...
Page 84 - ... by the PUBLIC. SIR THOMAS LUCY on the bench, LADY LUCY and ANN SHAKESPEARE near him. SHAKESPEARE standing in the dock, handcuffed. The SCHOLARS sitting together outside the dock. The FATHERS and MOTHER opposite. CLERK OF THE COURT, CONSTABLE, ATTENDANTS, and USHERS. MOLES leaving the witness-box. FIRST FATHER. [Aside to the Clerk of the Court. Master, was this well howled ? THE CLERK OF THE COURT. Most wolfishly. THE CLERK OF THE COURT. Very laudable. So Niobe bewept herself to stone, And Thisbe...
Page 111 - Gainst me unseen, with crimes imaginary Slurring my name, with a depicted devil Scaring the innocent eye that should have seen The Father's image in the earthly parent, Then, and then only, take my malison. ANN SHAKESPEARE. Of this nought apprehend. SHAKESPEARE. 'T is passing well. {Kisses her. Fix thou thy appetence on things supernal; Guide our fair children in the paths of virtue; Cherish the harmless necessary cat, Who will for my departure wring her hands ; Speak of me sometimes, rail at me...