Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 795
arried Anne Hathaway. This much we know to be true; but for sometime the rest is tradition, or legend. Traditionalleges that Will had led a rather wildish youth,and that, in or about 1584, his boyhood life inStratford came to a sudden, tempestuous close. The legend, which you have heard often… … SHAKIiSPEARE S BIR THPLACE AT STRATEORn-ON-AVON. fortunes fell away. A mortgage was put on themothers farm, in security for a loan from herbrother-in-law, Edmund Lambert, who promptlyforeclosed the lien. John Shakespeare never prospered again; hisdifficulties increased; he plunged deeper anddeeper…
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