I LOV'D SHAKESPEARE AND DO HONOUR HIS MEMORY, ON THIS SIDE IDOLATRY, AS MUCH AS ANY. HE WAS, INDEED, HONEST, AND OF AN OPEN AND FREE NATURE; HAD AN EXCELLENT FANCY, BRAVE NOTIONS AND GENTLE EXPRESSIONS. BEN JONSON. 6292 OF THE LIFE OF SHAKESPEARE. BY J. O. HALLIWELL-PHILLIPPS, F.R.S., F.S.A., Hon. M.R.S.L., Hon. M.R.I.A. ELEVENTH IMPRESSION. When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought. -The Thirtieth Sonnet. VOLUME THE FIRST, LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO. 39 PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON, NEW YORK, BOMBAY, AND CALCUTTA. 1907. |