...to credit. ' Mr. William Shakespear was borne at Stratford upon Avon, in the county of Warwick : his father was a butcher, and I have been told heretofore...boy he exercised his father's trade ; but when he kill'da calfe, he would doe it in a high style, and make a speech. There was at that time another butcher's...

...readers :• — " Mr. William Shakespear was born at Stratford-upon-Avon, in the county of Warwick ; his father was a butcher, and I have been told heretofore...he would do it in a high style, and make a speech. There was at that time another butcher's son in this town that was held not at all inferior to him...

...adds, with regard to our poet, that " when he was a boy, he exercised his father's trade;" and that "when he killed a calf, he would do it in a high style, and make a speech." \ That John Shakspeare, when under the pressure of adversity, might combine the two employments, which...

...Aubrey's words, in his MS. in the Ashmolean Museum, at Oxford, are these : — " William Shakespeare's father was a butcher, and I have been told heretofore...he killed a calf, he would do it in a high style, had stated5. We think that Malone was right, and the testimony is unquestionably more positive and...

...to credit. ' Mr. William Shakespear was borne at Stratford upon Avon, in the county of Warwick : his father was a butcher, and I have been told heretofore...boy he exercised his father's trade ; but when he kill'da calfe, he would doe it in a high style, and make a speech. There was at that time another butcher's...

...years : — " Mr. William Shakspere was born at Stratford-upon-Avon, in the county of Warwick. His father was a butcher, and I have been told heretofore...he would do it in a high style, and make a speech. There was at that time another butcher's son in this town that was held not at all inferior to him...

...eighty years: — " Mr. William Shakspere was born at Strattbrd-upon-Avon, in the county of Warwick. His father was a butcher, and I have been told heretofore...he would do it in a high style, and make a speech. There was at that time another butcher's son in this town that was held not at all inferior to him...

...had affirmed,1 nor a dealer in wool, as Rowe i Aubrey's words arc the«: — "William Shakespeare's ht shall make us rue, If England to itself do rest but true. [Exeunt neighbour!, that when he was a boy he exercised hi« father's had stated ', ' as this testimony is...

...William Sbakespear was borne at Stratford upon Avon in the eounty of Warwiek ; his father was a buteher, and I have been told heretofore by some of the neighbours that when he was a boy he exereised his father's trade, but when he kill'da ealfe he would doe it in a high style, and make a...

...dark." Mr. Wall was specially indignant with Aubrey for venturing to state : — " His [Shakespeare's] father was a butcher, and I have been told heretofore by some of his neighbours that when he was a boy he exercised his father's trade ; but when he killed a calf,...