...that he spent at the rate of IQOOl. a-year, as I have heard. Shakspeare, Dray ton, and Ben Jonson, had merry meeting, and it seems drank too hard, for Shakspeare died of a fever there contracted. " Remember to peruse Shakspeare's plays, and be much versed in them, that I may not be ignorant in...

...that he spent at the rate of 1000Z. a-year, as I have heard. Shakspeare, Drayton, and Ben Jonson, had merry meeting, and it seems drank too hard, for Shakspeare died of a fever there contracted. " Remember to peruse Shakspeare's plays, and be much versed in them, that I may not be ignorant in...

...so large, that he spent at the rate of £1000 a-year, as I have heard. Shakspcarc, Drnyton, and Ren oln Shaks|iearediedof a fever there contracted.' We place no great reliance on this testimony, either as...

...Shakspere, Gent." Writing forty-six years after the event, the vicar of Stratford says, "Shakspere, Drayton, and Ben Jonson had a merry meeting, and, it seems, drank too hard, for Shakspere died of a fever there contracted." A tradition of this nature, surviving its object nearly...

...memorandum book of Mr. Ward, already quoted, and it seems to confirm this view. Mr. Ward says that ' Shakspeare, Drayton, and Ben Jonson had a merry meeting,...for Shakspeare died of a fever there contracted.' This is the whole account we possess of the death of the greatest of the world's poets. Dr. Hall, his...

...luxurious habits esteemed these virtues as the foundation of the • " Shnkspeare, Drayton, and Ben Jpnson, had a merry meeting, and it seems drank too hard, for Shakspeare died of a feavour there contracted." — Diary of the Rev, John Ward, MA, Vicar of Stratford-upon-Avon. common...

...gent." Writing forty-six years after the event, the vicar of Stratford says, "Shakspere, Dray ton, and Ben Jonson had a merry meeting, and, it seems, drank too hard, fur Sbakspere died of a fever there contracted." A tradition of this nature, surviving its object nearly...

...writes that he was " without any art at all ;" and in reference to his death says, that " Shakespeare, Drayton, and Ben Jonson had a merry meeting, and it seems drank too hard ; for Shakespeare died of a fever there contracted." Davies says that he was " much given to all unluckiness...

...of Stratford, in a manuscript memorandum-book written in the year 1GG 2, asserts that "Shakespeare, Drayton, and Ben Jonson had a merry meeting, and, it seems, drank too hard, for Shakespeare died of a fever there contracted." Mr. Ward ought to have known better than to have recorded...

...with certainty. Mr. Ward, the vicar of Stratford, writing forty-six years after the event, says, — "Shakspeare, Drayton, and Ben Jonson, had a merry...for Shakspeare died of a fever there contracted." The vicar's surmise — the words " it seems " show that it was no more — is uncharitable, and need...