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 5by Richard Garnett - 1904 - 111 pagesFull view - About this book
| 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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