...the hare, and wooing girls." 81 The story is first told in print by Rowe, Life nf Shatspeare : — " re; he hath not drunk ink : his intellect is not replenished ; he is only an animal, only doer-stealing, engaged him more than once in robbing a park that belonged to Sir Thomas Lucy, of Charlecote,...

...commonly assigned is " the deer-stealing story." The original statement of the matter is as follows :— " He had, by a misfortune common enough to young fellows,...deer-stealing, engaged him more than once in robbing the park that belonged to Sir Thomas Lucy of Charlcote, near Stratford. For this he was prosecuted...

...proved the occafion of exerting one of the greateft geniufes that ever was known in dramatic poetry. He had, by a misfortune common enough to young fellows, fallen into ill company, and amongft them fome, that made a frequent practice of deer-ftealing, engaged him more than once in robbing...

...sufficient warrant. He says, with much coolness, and a sort of vulgar familiarity, — "Shakespeare had, by a misfortune common enough to young fellows,...amongst them some, that made a frequent practice of _ deer-stealing, engaged him more than once in robbing a park that belonged to Sir Thomas Lucy." Aubrey,...

...and Hathaways belonged. The cause which drove Shakapere from Stratford is thus stated by Rowe : — " He had, by a misfortune common enough to young fellows,...robbing a park that belonged to Sir Thomas Lucy, of Charlecoto, near Stratford. For this he was prosecuted by that gentleman, as he thought, somewhat too...

...proved the occasion of exerting one of the greatest geniuses that ever was known in dramatic poetry. He had, by a misfortune common enough to young fellows,...robbing a park that belonged to Sir Thomas Lucy, of Charlcote, near Stratford. For this he was prosecuted by that gentleman, as he thought, somewhat too...

...and Hathaways belonged. The cause which drove Shakepere from Stratford is thus stated by Rowe : — " He had, by a misfortune common enough to young fellows,...amongst them, some that made a frequent practice of deer stealing, engaged him more than once in robbing a park that belonged to Sir Thomas Lucy, of Charlecote,...

...borough. As Rowe is this oldest authority in print for this itoiy, we give it in his own words: — " He had, by a misfortune common enough to young fellows, fallen into ill company; and among them some, that made a frequent practice of deerstealing, engaged him more than once in robbing...

...this indiscretion. The story is first told in print by Rowe, in his " Life of Shakespeare " : — " He had, by a misfortune common enough to young fellows,...somewhat too severely ; and in order to revenge that ill-usage, he made a ballad upon him. And though this, probably the first essay of his poetry, be lost,...

...published by Rowe and repeated by most of the poet's biographers. ' He had, by a misfortune ' (says Rowe) ' common enough to young fellows, fallen into ill company...somewhat too severely, and in order to revenge that ill-usage he made a ballad upon him.' * And though this, probably the first essay of his poetry, be...