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Excerpt from Lives of the British Poets: With Specimens of Their Writings Tion. He also mortgaged some property belonging to his wife by inheritance, - a small estate called Asbyes, -u-and being unable to afford poor-rates, was left untaxed. In 1580 the youngest son, Edmund, was born, and baptized May 3d 3 while William had attained the age of sixteen years. Mean time there were not wanting events that may have helped to foster in the youth the poetic and dramatic bias of his genius. In 1575, Queen Elizabeth was entertained by the Earl of Leicester at Kenilworth Castle, where masques, pageants, and entertainments of. The most gorgeous description were enacted for her Majesty's delectation 3 and it is by no means unlikely that the lad of eleven years old, with heart and brain on fire with accounts of what was in prospect at a place only fourteen miles off, found meaiis to get over there to witness these princely shows. Besides this, there were occasional theatrical performances at stratford-upon-avon itself, by eminent travelling companies of actors from the metropolis; and many of these actors were natives of Wil liam's own birthplace and its neighbourhood. The names of Burbage, Slye, Hemings, Tooley, and Greene - all players afterwards connected with Shakespeare's dramatic career are those of men more or less owing their origin to the county of Warwickshire, and very probably were objects of boyish admiration to the Stratford stripling, who would be sure to find means of making acquaintance with them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
