...document, which renders it probable that he followed the profession of a glover.3 * " William Shakespeare's father was a butcher, and I have been told heretofore...exercised his father's trade ; but when he killed a calfe, he would do it in a high style, and make a speech!" MS Aubrey. Mas. Ashmol. Oxon. Rowe tells...

...of aiding his father's business, which, according to Aubrey, was then that of a butcher ; and that " when he killed a calf, he would do it in a high style, and make a speeche." A pursuit so uncongenial naturally tended to pervert his taste, and we soon find him among...

...years : — " 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...trade ; but when he killed a calf he would do it in high style, and make a speech. There was at that time another butcher's son in this town that was held...

...Shakespear was born at Strattord-upon-Avon, in the county of Warwick. His father was a butcher, and 1 have been told heretofore by some of the neighbours...he was a boy he exercised his father's trade ; but wheu he killed a calf he would do it in high style, and make a speech. There was at that time another...

...Another represents him as assisting his father in slaughtering animals, and says that when William killed a calf he would do it in a high style, and make a speech. But I do not believe the young poet ever wasted any eloquence in an elegy on a dying calf. Some wise...

...Stratford-upon-Avon, in the county of Warwick. His father was a butcher, and I have been told here before by some of the neighbours, that when he was a boy he exercised his father's trade, but when he kill'da calfe he would do it in a high style, and make a speech. There was at that time another butcher's...

...heretofore [Aubrey died about 1697] by some of the neighbour.*, that when he wns a bor he exercised hie father's trade, but when he killed a calf he would do it in a high style, and make a speech." He farther reports that " this William being naturally inclined to poetry and acting, came to London,...

...adds a statement which evidently takes its origin from the Poet's future occupation as an Actor, " but when he killed a calf he would do it in a high style, and make a speech." From flaying calves to flaying boys may not be so great a step as it appears, and the same legendary...

...give it entire : Mr. William Shakespeare was bom at Stratford upon Avon, in the county of Warwick. His 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 calfe...

...us that Shakespeare was ' bonnd apprentice to a butcher ;' and Aubrey, prior to 1697, wrote, ' His father was a butcher, and I have been told heretofore...he would do it in a high style, and make a speech.' Coming, as it does to us, from two apparently independent sources, this tradition is most probably...