Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. Beware, delighted poets, when yon sing, To welcome nature, in the early spring, Your numerous feet not tread The banks of Avon ; for each flower (As it ne'er knew a sun or shower) Hangs there the pensive head. D'AvENANT. It was a sport very pleasant of these beasts to see the bear, ith his pink eyes, leaning after his enemies' approach, the nim- bleness and wait of the dog to take his advantage, and the force ud experience of the bear again to avoid the assault. If he was bitten in one place, how he would pinch in another to get free ! ud, if he was taken once, then what shift with biting, with clawing, with roaring, tossing and tumbling, he would work to isd himself from them ! And, when he was loose, to shake his ear twice or thrice, with the blood and the slaver abont his vismony, was a matter of goodly relief. Here I lay, and thus I bore my point. Shaespbare. " Now, dame, prythee put forth thy best housewifery, for amongst our company this day will be one for whom I have an especial respect." " "Pis Master Shakspeare, then, I lay my life on't." " Ay, that is it, dame; and one more worthy of all honour, either amongst such as be players, or with folk of any condition, distinction, or goodness whatsoever, we are not like to see in our time, I promise you." "Marry, he shall have the best entertainment we can give him, and with such heartiness of goodwill, as he may, perchance, lack in a braver feast. But who have you provided to meet him, sweet heart ? for, methinks, there should be some choice in the company which one so esteemed is required to grace." "As for that, dame, I can but ask mine own fellows of the Fortune, most of whom must depart with me, on the morrow, for Windsor ; and, though they may not be so approved in their ar...