Shakespeare From An American Point of View Including An Inquiry As to His Reli
Shakespeare From An American Point of View Including An Inquiry As to His Reli
George Wilkes
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Men shall hold of me in capite ; and we charge and command that their wives be as free as heart can wisJi, or tongiie can tell' " He thus declares a great forthcoming change in the tenure of land and in the liability of taxation : he is to have a pole-tax like that which had raised the rebellion ; but, instead of coming down to the daughters of blacksmiths who had reached the age of fifteen, it was to be confined to the nobility. Then he is to legislate on the mercketa mulierum. * * * * * * * "... He proceeds to announce his intention to abolish tenure in free socage, and that all men should hold of him, in capite, con- cluding with a licentious jest that, although his subjects should no longer hold in free socage, f their wives should be as free as heart can wish, or tongue can tell/ Strange to say " (continues his lordship) " this phrase, or one almost identically the same, ' as free as tongue can speak, or heart can think, ' is feudal, and was known to the ancient law of England/' Now, in relation to this latter instance as presented by his lordship, the suggestion which irresistibly presents itself is, that Shakespeare, if he really had been bred to the law, would have presented the legal phrase above correctly.
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