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Shakspere, His Friends And Acquaintances.
topographical poet , Michael Drayton (^ *^ ^ V ^ Se ' uvea * ofthe ^ ry " the Masonic Magazine is published , and Izaak Walton , I may state ^^ oci on ^ y spot !) was his intimate friend until his death ; as was also ben Jonson ^ e r emar ^ that Shakspere " wrote not for an age , but for all time , iiko old Samuel . onnsons famous line , that he ; . . J „„ , „» " Exhausted Avorlds , and then imagined new ,
will endure till time shall be no more . + „„ i , ™ n « rlnvp been familiar ,. With all his brother players and brother dramatists , too , he must hay been lttim and friendly for the most part , notwithstanding the narrow , j f ^^ Vunitis ty but the latter could not help showing , that one who had never ^ en to ^ nwoistfy that taught by Dame Nature , should so "take the shine out f ^ f ^ S ^ iaod ,-of Arte from Oxford and Cambridge . Not that an University tra mug was to be despise , but , as our gifted Brother , Robert Burns , has forcibly expressed it , —
" Give me a spark of Nature ' s fire , 'Tis all the learning I desire , "a great truth when properly understood ; for BroBurns ^^ Z ^^ ] that without some little school learning he ^ . ^^ f . ^ Sj „ Sve Avritten just as Shakspere , with his " little Latin , and 1 ™ ^> °° ™ even a miracle play without some portion of scholastic education f &
Shakspere ' s friend , Michael ^^ £ ^^ YT hnidXvlfoage . . players appear to have sprung from Stiatfoid-on Avon anu noiehbourhcod - James BirAwe , Avho horrified some of the mnw-imnded folks in toe ™ W °° ™*™" SConverting : in the year 1573 , certain rooms close to the rum , ^ ^ ^" Mars into a theatre , in what still bears the name of Pkyho ™ ^ . . and AAIK . vatn John Perk John Lanham William Johnson , and
" yn , , ^ vTtoJK the future player and dramatist Avho ^ in ^ jrWiBe ^ , ^ S , s sup ^ cl nrocured a patent , under the title of the Eail of iieiccstei s ou « , ^ Shave been a Stratford man ; and our great Shaksperean mves gp * J ^ £ **? Payne Collier , F . S . A ., has shown that a *^ ^™ ^? 8 ^^ s £ ^ ancl that Burboffe was a common name m Waiwickslnre . in \ ooo , w J . wa only Wy-five years old , we find he had become one of sixteen shar js-m , the first on he list andJiat oitas .
the Blackfriars Theatre , old Burbage's name being more illustrious son , Richard Btirbage , beiug the second : the names " & ^ J ^ Burbage ; 2 , Richard Burbage ; 3 , John Lanehain ; 4 , Thomas Gieene , o , Itoboit Wilson 6 , John Taylor ; 7 , Anth . Wadeson ; 8 , Thomas Pope 9 , Geoigo Peele IU , rugustine Phillips ; 11 , r ? icholas Towley ; 12 , William ^ espeare ^ ; ™>™ ^ Kempe ; 14 , William Johnson ; 15 , Baptiste Goodale ; i <> , Robeit A mjn . lh ^ Ust it will be observed , includes four of the five persons to whom the patent was giamccl ,
fifteen years before . , ¦ i •„ --n „ , „ Richard Burbage , to whom Shakspere left money to buy a ing , n his will , ^ . as called the British Ro ° scius ; and Sir Richard Baker dec ares that he wa such an * un as no age must ever lock to see the like . " He died in W 19 ,-ito <* jeais attei hi * , friend , Shakspere . As Phillpot p ithily remarks : Exit Burbage Thomas Greene is also supposed to have been a native of Stiatfoid and to have introduced to the theatreHe attemp ted poetrywas a como » c or oigica
Shakspere . , ^ power , and John Cook ' s popular comedy Avas printed as Greene sTu Quoqus , iiom ins ., acting in it , with his portrait on the title-page . L „ , _„ , ,, - »__ Robert Wilson-Avhom Howes calls " a quick , delicate-refined , ex , 3 ^ ~ was a playwright , 27 , 0 Cobbler ' s Prophecy being by him . He seems to lm *& ite wa d left the Blackfriars company for that of Henslowe , for whom Ave finc J , Jp 6 ,, ; - ^ ' ™ to 100 along with DraytonChe tl » ker ,
in manufacturing plays from 1597 G , , Anthony Monday , and others . Meres , in 1598 , alter mentioning Taileton s tac 1 ty fo extemporising ^ verse , adds : " And so is now our witty Wilson , Avho for tang and extemporal wit , in this faculty is without compare or compeer , as to his peat and eternal commendations he manifested in his challenge at the Swan on the Laukside ,
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Shakspere, His Friends And Acquaintances.
topographical poet , Michael Drayton (^ *^ ^ V ^ Se ' uvea * ofthe ^ ry " the Masonic Magazine is published , and Izaak Walton , I may state ^^ oci on ^ y spot !) was his intimate friend until his death ; as was also ben Jonson ^ e r emar ^ that Shakspere " wrote not for an age , but for all time , iiko old Samuel . onnsons famous line , that he ; . . J „„ , „» " Exhausted Avorlds , and then imagined new ,
will endure till time shall be no more . + „„ i , ™ n « rlnvp been familiar ,. With all his brother players and brother dramatists , too , he must hay been lttim and friendly for the most part , notwithstanding the narrow , j f ^^ Vunitis ty but the latter could not help showing , that one who had never ^ en to ^ nwoistfy that taught by Dame Nature , should so "take the shine out f ^ f ^ S ^ iaod ,-of Arte from Oxford and Cambridge . Not that an University tra mug was to be despise , but , as our gifted Brother , Robert Burns , has forcibly expressed it , —
" Give me a spark of Nature ' s fire , 'Tis all the learning I desire , "a great truth when properly understood ; for BroBurns ^^ Z ^^ ] that without some little school learning he ^ . ^^ f . ^ Sj „ Sve Avritten just as Shakspere , with his " little Latin , and 1 ™ ^> °° ™ even a miracle play without some portion of scholastic education f &
Shakspere ' s friend , Michael ^^ £ ^^ YT hnidXvlfoage . . players appear to have sprung from Stiatfoid-on Avon anu noiehbourhcod - James BirAwe , Avho horrified some of the mnw-imnded folks in toe ™ W °° ™*™" SConverting : in the year 1573 , certain rooms close to the rum , ^ ^ ^" Mars into a theatre , in what still bears the name of Pkyho ™ ^ . . and AAIK . vatn John Perk John Lanham William Johnson , and
" yn , , ^ vTtoJK the future player and dramatist Avho ^ in ^ jrWiBe ^ , ^ S , s sup ^ cl nrocured a patent , under the title of the Eail of iieiccstei s ou « , ^ Shave been a Stratford man ; and our great Shaksperean mves gp * J ^ £ **? Payne Collier , F . S . A ., has shown that a *^ ^™ ^? 8 ^^ s £ ^ ancl that Burboffe was a common name m Waiwickslnre . in \ ooo , w J . wa only Wy-five years old , we find he had become one of sixteen shar js-m , the first on he list andJiat oitas .
the Blackfriars Theatre , old Burbage's name being more illustrious son , Richard Btirbage , beiug the second : the names " & ^ J ^ Burbage ; 2 , Richard Burbage ; 3 , John Lanehain ; 4 , Thomas Gieene , o , Itoboit Wilson 6 , John Taylor ; 7 , Anth . Wadeson ; 8 , Thomas Pope 9 , Geoigo Peele IU , rugustine Phillips ; 11 , r ? icholas Towley ; 12 , William ^ espeare ^ ; ™>™ ^ Kempe ; 14 , William Johnson ; 15 , Baptiste Goodale ; i <> , Robeit A mjn . lh ^ Ust it will be observed , includes four of the five persons to whom the patent was giamccl ,
fifteen years before . , ¦ i •„ --n „ , „ Richard Burbage , to whom Shakspere left money to buy a ing , n his will , ^ . as called the British Ro ° scius ; and Sir Richard Baker dec ares that he wa such an * un as no age must ever lock to see the like . " He died in W 19 ,-ito <* jeais attei hi * , friend , Shakspere . As Phillpot p ithily remarks : Exit Burbage Thomas Greene is also supposed to have been a native of Stiatfoid and to have introduced to the theatreHe attemp ted poetrywas a como » c or oigica
Shakspere . , ^ power , and John Cook ' s popular comedy Avas printed as Greene sTu Quoqus , iiom ins ., acting in it , with his portrait on the title-page . L „ , _„ , ,, - »__ Robert Wilson-Avhom Howes calls " a quick , delicate-refined , ex , 3 ^ ~ was a playwright , 27 , 0 Cobbler ' s Prophecy being by him . He seems to lm *& ite wa d left the Blackfriars company for that of Henslowe , for whom Ave finc J , Jp 6 ,, ; - ^ ' ™ to 100 along with DraytonChe tl » ker ,
in manufacturing plays from 1597 G , , Anthony Monday , and others . Meres , in 1598 , alter mentioning Taileton s tac 1 ty fo extemporising ^ verse , adds : " And so is now our witty Wilson , Avho for tang and extemporal wit , in this faculty is without compare or compeer , as to his peat and eternal commendations he manifested in his challenge at the Swan on the Laukside ,