 | 1875 - 620 pages
...and Aubrey, prior to 1697, •wrote, ' His father was a butcher, and I have been told hereto' fore by some of the neighbours, that when he was a boy...' 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1876 - 1000 pages
...visitor to Shakespeare's grave, that William " was apprenticed to a butcher ; " and Aubrey says, " His Nevil, as I may remember), f To WAR. When Richard, — with his his neighbours, that, when he was a boy, he exercised his father's trade; but when he killed a calfe,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1878 - 408 pages
...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 caife, he would do it in a high style, and make a speech!" MS Aubrey. Mus. Ashmol. Oxon. Rowe tells... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1878 - 750 pages
...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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1879 - 556 pages
...Anthony a Wood. u Mr. William Shakespeare 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson - 1879 - 844 pages
...notice of the Shakespeare family at Stratford is of the date April 29, 1552.] 8 ' William Shakespeare's father was a butcher, and I have been told heretofore...he was a boy. he exercised his father's trade; but u'hen he killed a < (life, lie uxntld do it in a Itiyh style, and fliakt a speech!" M. S Aubrey. Mas... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1880 - 474 pages
...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... | |
 | Appleton Morgan - 1881 - 366 pages
...it entire : "Mr. William Shakespeare was born at Stratfordupon-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... | |
 | William Shakespeare, William Michael Rossetti - 1882 - 1168 pages
...butchering branch (if such existed) of the paternal business. " When he killed a calf," says Aubrey, " W ell. sir, I hope, when I do it, I shall do it ;" a story which was indeed easy to invent, but which is also not particularly difficult to believe.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1883 - 596 pages
...its face : " Mr. William Shakespeare was home at Stratford upon Avon in the county of Warwick : his father was a butcher ; and I have been told heretofore...a 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... | |
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Warwick; his father was a butcher, and I have been told heretofore by some of the neighbours that, when he was a boy, he exercised his father's trade; but when he killed a calf, he would do it in a high style and make a speech. 
