Shakespeare, the Man and His Works: Being All the Subject Matter about Shakespeare Contained in Moulton's Library of Literary Criticism (Classic Reprint)

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Shakspear had but two daughters, one whereof Mr. Hall, the physitian, married, and by her bad on daughter married, to wit, the Lady Bernard of Abbingdon. I have heard that Mr. Shakspeare was a natural wit, with out any art at all; hee frequented the plays all his younger time, but in his elder days lived at Stratford, and supplied the stage with two plays every year, and for itt had an allowance so large, that hee Spent att the rate of 1,000l. A-year, as I have heard. Shakespeare, Drayton, and Ben Jonson, had a merie meeting, and itt seems drank too hard, for Shakespear died of a feavour there con tracted. Remember to peruse Shakespeare's plays, and bee much versed in them, that I-may not bee ignorant in that matter. Whether Dr. Heylin does well, in reckoning up the dramatick poets which have been famous in Eng land, to omit Shakespeare. Ward, rev. John, 1648 - 78, Diary, ed. Severn, p. 183.

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