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55, who says : " The pike of the fisherman is the luce of heraldry; a name derived from the old French language lus, or from the Latin luc'ius ; as a charge it was very early used by heralds as a pun upon the name of Lucy. " o- 1 ■) o THE HOME OF SHAKSPERE. 17 The deer-stealiiig story, unlike a matter of fact, has grown to be more defined and clear the nearer it approaches to our own time. It first commences by traditionary stories loosely put down, and exceedingly inaccurate in detail. Mention... is made of a lost ballad satirising Sir Thomas. By and by, a stanza is found ; and ultimately we get the entire ballad, about as scurrilous and worthless a composition as ever forger fixed on a great man. This ballad is evidently made up from the allusions in the first scene of the Merry Wives of Windsor, which, as Malone observes, " certainly afford ground for believing that our author, on some account or other, had not the most profound respect for Sir Thomas Lucy. The 'dozen white luces, ' how- ever, which Shallow is made to commend as 'a good coat, ' was not Sir Thomas Lucy's coat of arms.
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