Shakespeare the Boy With Sketches of the Home And School Life the Games And Sp
Shakespeare the Boy With Sketches of the Home And School Life the Games And Sp
Rolfe, W. J. (William James), 1827-1910
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Dr. Forman relates how two students in 1573 (one of whom afterwards became Bishop of Worces- ter) were more given to such pursuits than to study ; and one good man lamented in later life that he had missed the advantages that others had derived from ~*?t MmmtfmMMmmmm* ENTRANCE TO CHARLECOTE HALL these exploits, which he believed to be an excellent kind of discipline for young men. We must not assume that Sir Thomas was fairly rep- resented in the character of Justice Shallow. On the contrary, h...e appears to have been an able man and magistrate, and very genial withal. The Stratford rec- ords bear frequent testimony to his judicial services; and his attendance on such occasions is generally SHAKESPEARE THE BOY 23 coupled with a charge for claret and sack or similar beverages. It is rather amusing that these entries occur even when he is sitting in judgment on tipplers. In the records for 1558 we read: "Paid for wine and sugar when Sir Thomas Lucy sat in commission for tipplers, xx d" That he was a good husband we may infer from the long epitaph of his wife in Charlecote Church, which, after stating that she died in 1595, at the age of 63, goes on thus: "all the time of her life a true and faith- ful servant of her good God ; never detected of any crime or vice ; in religion most sound; in love to her husband most faithful and true \ in friendship most constant ; to what in trust was committed to her most secret; in wisdom excelling; in governing of her house and bringing up of youth in the fear of God that did converse with her, most rare and singular; a great maintained of hospitality ; greatly esteemed of her bet- ters, misliked of none unless of the envious.
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