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" 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... "
William Shakespeare, Pedagogue & Poacher: A Drama - Page 5
by Richard Garnett - 1904 - 111 pages
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Bentley's Miscellany, Volume 9

1842 - 732 pages
...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." Now that gossip may have spread without there being one word of truth in it. Charlecote is also now...
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New Illustrations of the Life, Studies, and Writings of Shakespeare, Volume 1

Joseph Hunter - 1845 - 456 pages
...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 county, to his great advancement; but his revenge was so great, that he is his Justice Clodpate, and calls him a great man, and that,...
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Extraordinary Men: Their Boyhood and Early Life

William Russell - Ability - 1853 - 326 pages
...very much given to all unluckiness in stealing venison and rabbits, particularly from Sir Thomas Hucy, who had him oft whipt and sometimes imprisoned!, and...him fly his native county to his great advancement;" he, the Reverend Davis, is unanimously devoted' tb the infernal gods without benefit of clergy, as...
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Recollections of the Mess-table and the Stage

Henry Curling - Theater - 1855 - 282 pages
...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.' Now such gossip may have spread without there being one word of truth in it. Charlecote is also now...
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The Rambler, a Catholic journal of home and foreign literature [&c ..., Volume 9

1858 - 448 pages
...Shakespeare and Sir Thomas Lucy, the tool of Leicester, the persecuting Puritan justice, who had Shakespeare "oft whipt, and sometimes imprisoned; and at last made him fly his native county" for stealing his venison and rabbits, as the Rev. R. Davies writes eighty years after Shakespeare's...
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Routledge's Every Boy's Annual

Children's literature - 1865 - 1136 pages
...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 " — he, the Reverend Davis, is unanimously devoted to the infernal gods without benefit of clergy,...
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The Works of Shakespeare ...

William Shakespeare - 1883 - 972 pages
...given to all unlnckinesse in stealing venison and rahl>iis. particularly from Sir Lucy, who had him ofi whipt. and sometimes imprisoned, and at last made him fly his native country to his great advancement ; but his reveng WHS so great, thai he is his Justice Clodpate, and...
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Dictionary of National Biography, Volume 51

Leslie Stephen, Sir Sidney Lee - Great Britain - 1897 - 482 pages
...to the effect that Shakespeare ' was much given to all unluckiness in stealing venison and rnbbits, particularly from Sir Thomas Lucy, who had him oft...him fly his native county to his great advancement.' The law of Shakespeare's day. (6 Eliz. cap. 21) punished deer-stealers with three months' imprisonment...
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Stratford-on-Avon: From the Earliest Times to the Death of Shakespeare

Sir Sidney Lee - Dramatists, English - 1890 - 330 pages
...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." The soundest scholar among Shakespeare's biographers — Mr. Halliwell-Phillipps — accepts the outline...
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The Life of Shakespeare: Copied from the Best Sources, Without Comment

Daniel Webster Wilder - Dramatists, English - 1893 - 238 pages
...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 ; but his revenge was so great that he is Justice Clodpate, and calls him a great man, and that in...
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