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STRATFORD-ON-AVON.

        t-?oream Of tal s S dance round urf is which pillowd his head.

        tO a    on truly call ary feeling of someterritorial sequence ravel, s, ts    into slippers, and stretc t go as it may, let kingdoms rise or fall, so long as o pay ime being, tre, and ttle parlor, some t square, ed empire. It is a morsel of certainly snatc of tainties of life; it is a sunny moment gleaming out kindly on a cloudy day: and enoance of s of enjoyment.

        "S take mine ease in mine inn?" t I, as I gave tir, lolled ba my elbo look about ttle parlor of t Stratford-on-Avon.

        t S passing truck midnigole tap at tty g in ating air,    as a modest    t it ime to retire. My dream of absolute dominion    an end; so abdig my t poteo avoid being deposed, and putting tratfuide-Book under my arm as a pillo to bed, and dreamt all nighe jubilee, and David Garrick.

        t m imes     ter    its last gasp; and a mild air came stealing from t, breato Nature, and o burst fortrand beauty.

        I o Stratford on a poetical pilgrimage. My ?rst visit o to tradition,    up to    of    is a small mean-looking edi?ce of er, a true ling-place of genius, s squalid s in every language by pilgrims of all nations, ranks, and ditions, from to t, and present a simple but striking instance of taneous and universal o     t poet of Nature.

        ty red face, ligi?cial locks of ?axen y cap. Sing ted shrines, abounds.

        ttered stock of tc ts. too, ical lantern    at tomb. tree, iplication as true cross, of    to build a she line.

        t favorite object of curiosity,    stands in a c be ening to tratford dealing fortales and legendary aes of troublesome times of England. In t is tom of every o visits to sit:

        a loss to say; I merely mention t, and mine ess privately assured me t, t of solid oak, suc zeal of devotees to be omed at least on t is ice also, in tory of traordinary c it partakes sometile nature of ta Casa of Loretto, or ter; for, to a nort, strao tell, it s o the old ey-er.

        I am alters, and am ever o be deceived    and costs notes of goblins and great men, and ravellers i?cation to be the same.

        is it to us rue or false, so long as o ty? te good-y in tters, and on t even so far as o believe tess to a lineal dest from t, o my ion,    de?ance.

        From t me to    riced. It stands on t, and separated by adjoining gardens from tos situation is quiet aired; t t of ts banks droop to its clear bosom. An avenue of limes, terlaced, so as to form in summer an arce of to tombstones, some of to ti ts among tinual ?utter and c its lofty gray spire.

        In t on,     Edmonds, and apanied o get the church.

        ratford, man and boy, fill to sider rivial exception t    t. tage looking out upon ts b meadoure of t ness, order, and fort ry. A locer aered along table,     clock, t important article of cottage furniture, ticked on te side of t o admit a gossip knot s jambs.

        In one er sat ter sety blue-eyed girl, and in te er ed y oget about and gossiping a time toget is not often t reams of existence running tranquilly side by side; it is only in suc "bosom ses" of life t to be met h.

        I o gatraditionary aes of t part. terval during ive    s sory, and it is    t scarcely anyto        a sty ures.

        ton and ers on tions for ted Stratford Jubilee, and te, s, and on, ;a s pung." Joed also in cutting do a sn quier of literary ception.

        I o s speak very dubiously of t dame whe Shakespeare house.

        Joioned ible colle of relics, particularly ree; and ton even expressed a doubt as to S o ts tomb, tter ively but feors. t is t orians differ at tset, and mere pebbles make tream of truto different c tain-head.

        e approacered by a Goted, erior is spacious, aure and embelliss superior to t try ents of nobility ary, over some of ed    a s distance from tual murmur. A ?at stone marks t o ten by remely a solicitude about t of tural to ?ne sensibilities and tful minds:

        Just over t of S up sly after    is pleasant and serene,    I could read in it clear indications of t    by ness of ioions    time of y-timely deat fruit mig ed from tumn of sucered as it ormy vicissitudes of life, and ?ourishe sunshine of popular and royal favor?

        tion on tombstone    been    its effect.

        It ed tive place to estminster Abbey, ime plated. A feo make an adjoining vault, to leave a vat space almost like an areddle ion; a any of tor of relics sempted to it depredations, to cil t    o look in at t could see    dust. It , to    of Shakespeare.

        o te daugomb close by, also, is a full-lengto ten a ludicrous epitaph.

        ts around, but to d is not ected    as his mausoleum.

        ted by doubt,    ?deraces of    e certainty.

        As I trod t tense and t irut. It ime before I could prevail upon myself to leave trees, t I    from Stratford.

        I ed ts of a pilgrims devotion, but I o see t of t d to ramble terers of Stratford, itted ealing. In t old t aken prisoner and carried to t in doleful captivity.    into treatment must ing; for it so o produce a rougo te at C.*

        tious attack upon ty of t so insed    o a la aro put ty of t talker. S    to brave ted puissance of a knigry attorney.    banks of ternal trade; o London; became a o tres; tor; and ?nally e fe; and tion of Sir tratford lost an indifferent al poet. ained, ime, a sense of treatment of t, and revenged ings, but in tive ured mind. Sir to be tice Sire is slyly ?xed upon ices armorial bearings, erings.

        * taant of this lampoon:

        At    London an asse,

        If lo,

        e alloo mate,

        If Lucy is lo,

        tever befall it.

        + t C.

        Various attempts o soften and explain aransgression of t; but I look upon it as one of tless exploits natural to uation and turn of mind. Sless all ty of an ardent, undisciplined, and ued genius. tic temperament urally somet of t to itself it runs loosely and ious. It is often a turn up of a die, in te,    a great rogue reat poet; and    Suaken a literary bias,    ransded all civil as ic laws.

        I tle doubt t, in early life,    tratford, o be found in ters, t ed    mention of    to to less like a foray to a Scottis, and struck    untamed, imagination as sometfully adventurous.*

        * A proof of Ss and associates in raditionary ae, picked up at Stratford by tioned in ;Picturesque Vie;

        About seven miles from Stratford lies ty little market-tos ale. ties of to meet, uion of topers, and to co a test of drinking. Among otratford    to prove trengte of t "t; rue to aff to ratfgered at t o, and sounded a retreat o carry to lie doree,    ill standing, and goes by tree.

        In turning to Bedford, but h

        "to," says Ireland, "still bear ts till famed for tabor; ed on is famous for ty of its soil."

        t and its surrounding park still remain iing front being ected    eventful circumstan ty ory of tood at little more tance from Stratford, I resolved to pay it a pedestrian visit, t I migroll leisurely t    ideas of rural imagery.

        try    naked and lea?ess, but Englis, and temperature of ts quiing effects upon t ing to    ao feel its ealing over to see t melloo put fort and tender blade, and trees and sints and bursting buds, giving turning foliage and ?o little borderer on ts of er, o be seen s ce tages. ting of t lambs ly tered about tto e querulous ry strain; and too t ?eecy cloud, p fortorrents of melody. As I ctle songster mounting up il e bosom of till ?lled    called to mitle song in Cymbeline:

         e sings,

        Iry about ic ground: everyted tage t I sao some resort of imate knoic life and manners, and ales and itions o ime, old, it    in er evenings "to sit round tell merry tales of errant knigs, ders,     c;*

        * Scot, in ;Discoverie of itc," ees a of t;And t bull-beggars, spirits, cyrs, pans, faunes, syrens, kit icke, tritons, taurs, des, imps, calcars, jurors, nympom tom tumbler, boneless, and suc we were afraid of our own s;

        My route for a part of t of ty of t fancy doublings and ile valley--sometimes glittering from among imes disappearing among groves or beimes rambling out into full vieiful bosom of try is called tant line of undulating blue o be its boundary,    intervening landscape lies in a manner enche Avon.

        After pursuing t turned off into a footpato a private gate of tile,    of trian, t of    in table estates, i as far as tpat in some measure reciles a poor man to , and, o tter lot of o ion.    t , at time, trouble of paying for it and keeping it in order.

        I nouries. tary s iops. ta, o interrupt t a distant statue and a vagrant deer stalking like a she opening.

        t tately old ave    of Gotecture, not merely from tended similarity of form, but from tion, and of ime e ideas of romantic grandeur. token also ttled dignity and proudly-trated independence of an a family; and I    aristocratic old friend observe, ry, t "money could do mue and mortar, but t;

        It    tic solitudes of t of tate, t some of Sators    meditations of Jaques and ting ures in "As You Like It." It is in lonely    t quiet draugion, and bees intensely sensible of ty and majesty of Nature. tion kindles into reverie and rapture, vague but exquisite images and ideas keep breaking upon it, and e and almost inunicable luxury of t. It    ts fancy may o t little song wuary

        I    of t is a large building of brie quoins, and is in tyle of Queen Elizabet in t year of erior remains very nearly in its inal state, and may be sidered a fair spe entleman of t gateo a kind of courtyard in front of ted , seation of t barba, being a kind of outpost and ?anked by toly for mere or, instead of defe of tely in tyle one-sed casements, a great boal    carved in sto ea toed by a gilt ball and her-cock.

        t at t of a gently-sloping bank ically upon its bosom. As I plated to mind     Falstaffs en on Justice Sed indifferend real vanity of tter:

        "Falstaff. You have a goodly dwelling and a rich.

        S;

        ever may y of t illness and solitude.

        t iron gate opened into tyard s bustling about tly at me as I passed, being no longer roopers of Stratford. tic life t I met e cat stealioables, as if on some nefarious expedition. I must not omit to mention t t s till in t lordly abain t rigorous exercise of territorial poed in the bard.

        After pro for some time, I at lengto a lateral portal, o the mansion.

        I eously received by a y and unicativeness of erior of ter part erations and been adapted to modern tastes and modes of living: taircase, and t    noble feature in an a manor-ill retains muc must y, and at one end is a gallery in rentleman, raits. table ?replace, calculated for an ample old-faser festivity. On te side of tone ss, yard. ained glass tions, some being dated in 1558. I erings te luces by    identi?ed    of Justice Sioned in t se of t;Merry ives of indsor," aff for ;beaten o ; t    t time, and ive ts of t So be a caricature of tion of Sir thomas.

        "S: I ar Cter of it; if y Joaffs,    abuse Sir Robert Shallow, Esq.

        Slender. In ty of Gloster, justice of pead .

        Salorum.

        Slender. Ay, and ratolorum too, and a gentleman born, master parson; tance, or obligation, Armigero.

        S I do; and ime three hundred years.

        Slender. All , and all ors t e after e luces in t. . . .

        S; it is a riot.

        Evans. It is not meet t; t in a riot; to , and not to ; take your vizaments in t.

        S!"

        rait, by Sir Peter Lely, of one of t beauty of time of Ced to ture, and informed me t ted to cards, and    portion of tate, among    of t    beeirely regained by t t day. It is but justice to t dame to fess t she had a surpassingly ?ne hand and arm.

        ture tracted my attention    painting over taining likenesses of Sir ted tter part of Sime. I at ?rst t t it ive knig t it    of tomb in t of C.*

        * te marble, and represents t in plete armor. Near omb is tion; ellectual level of Master Shallow:

        in ye ty of arton in ye ty of orcester Esquire    of te of rue and fayt of ected of any cryme or vice. In religion most sounde, in love to    faytrue. In friends stant; to rust ted unto    secret. In e rare and singular. A great maintayner of ality. Greatly esteemed of ters; misliked of none unless of t    be saide a    to be bettered and o be equalled by any. As s virtuotisly so s Godly. Set do did ko be true.

        thomas Lucye.

        ture gives a lively idea of tume and manners of time. Sir t, ;a e-colored beard." ed on te side of ture in omaerable stiffness and formality of dress. ed on imating ts skill in ing, o an aplisleman in those days.*

        * Bisry gentleman of ime, observes, " families of dogs and servitendant on ts is teems true burden of nobility, and is exceedingly ambitious to seem delig, and    gloved ; And Gilpin, in ion of a Mr.

        ings, remarks, " all sorts of    run buck, fox, ter, and badger; and    erriers. On a broad    terriers, ;

        I regretted to ?nd t t furniture of to meet ately elbo to sre of empire over    mig entate    pictures for my oertai, I pleased myself    tion on ter ivity in to myself tentate surrounded by ler, pages, and blue-coated serving-men    ry clo leaned gracefully for pity "t d t, trembling before ty of a try squire, and t of rustic boors, o bee t of priongues and ages, tator to to fer immortality on ure and a lampoon?

        I ed by tler to o t ined to visit tice treated Sir Joaff and Cousin Silence "to a last years pippin of ing, ; but I bad already spent so muc I o give up any furtigations.    to take my leave I i?ed by treaties of tler t I ake some refres--an instance of good old ality le-ers seldom meet    it is a virtue ative of ts from ors; for Sure, makes Justice Sunate in t, as ness ao Falstaff:

        "By cod pye, Sir, you s ao-nig excuse you; you s be excused; excuses s be admitted; t be excused. . . . Some pigeons, Davy, a couple of s-legged    of mutton; and any pretty little tiny kicksell `illiam Cook."

        I noant fareo tely possessed by ters ected    t I seemed to be actually living among t t    expected to er Silence quavering forte ditty:

        "tis merry in hall, when beards wag all,

        Ourning to my inn I could not but re?e t of t, to be able to spread ture, to give to ter not to turn t;; into a perfect fairy-land. rue encer,    upon t upon tion and t. Ue delusion. I ry,    ic po    in spirit    Jack Falstaff and emporaries, from t Justice So tle Master Slender and t Anne Page. ten ties of life    illusions, we and unboug in many a lonely hies of social life!

        As I crossed turn, I paused to plate tant c lies buried, and could not but exult in tion s quiet and s.    y panionsapcitled multitude?    minster Abbey o stand iiful loneliness as ude about t t sensibility; but ure is made up of foibles and prejudices, and its best and te affes are miious feelings.    reno t of er all, t tion, no applause, so s to t    is t o be gat and failing o urns as fondly as does t to to sink to sleep in the se of his childhood.

        of tful o it covered     and glory of ive place; t s most precious treasure; and t its lessening spire, on emplation, so tle landscape to guide terary pilgrim of every nation to omb!
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