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пода November 1904.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
PEDAGOGUE AND POACHER

By the same author.

THE TWILIGHT OF THE GODS.

PEDAGOGUE & POACHER

A DRAMA BY RICHARD GARNETT

I have an excellent intellect to go steal some venison.

- The Merry Devil of Edmonton

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It is an honourable kind of thievery.

-Two Gentlemen of Verona

JOHN LANE . THE BODLEY HEAD
LONDON AND NEW YORK MDCCCCV

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Copyright, 1904, by

JOHN LANE

HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY

MAR 9 1905

CAMBRIDGE, MASS.

Ex Libris

Prof. &. E. Norton,

THE UNIVERSITY PRESS, CAMBRIDGE, U.S. A.

Shakespeare understood Latin pretty well, for he had been in his younger years a schoolmaster in the country.— Aubrey.

He was much given to all unluckiness in stealing venison and rabbits, particularly from Sir Thomas Lucy, who had him oft whipt, and sometimes imprisoned, and at last made him fly his native county to his great advancement. - Archdeacon Davies.

He combined his information, Sir. - The Editor of the Eatanswill Gazette.

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