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# Shakespeare of Stratford/The Biographical Facts/Fact 16

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New Haven: Yale University Press, pages 22–24
​XVI. SHAKESPEARE INTERESTED IN PURCHASES OF LAND AT SHOTTERY (1598).
Letter of Abraham Sturley of Stratford to Richard Quyny, temporarily in London, January 24, 1598. (Stratford Corporation Records.)
Most loving and beloved in the Lord, in plain English we remember you in the Lord and ourselves unto you. I would write nothing unto you now but ‘Come home!’ I pray God send you comfortably home. This is one special remembrance from your father’s motion: It seemeth by him that our countryman, Mr. Shaksper, ​is willing to disburse some money upon some odd yardland or other at Shottery or near about us. He thinketh it a very fit pattern to move him to deal in the matter of our tithes. By the instructions you can give him thereof, and by the friends he can make therefor, we think it a fair mark for him to shoot at, and not unpossible to hit. It obtained would advance him indeed, and would do us much good. Hoc movere et, quantum in te est, permovere ne negligas: hoc enim et sibi et nobis maximi erit momenti. Hic labor, hic opus esset eximie et gloriae et laudis sibi.
You shall understand, brother, that our neighbors are grown, with the wants they feel through the dearness of corn, which here is beyond all other countries that I can hear of dear and over-dear, malcontent. They have assembled together in a great number, and travelled to Sir Thomas Lucy on Friday last to complain of our maltsters; on Sunday to Sir Fulke Greville and Sir John Conway. I should have said on Wednesday to Sir Edward Greville first. There is a meeting here expected to-morrow. The Lord knoweth to what end it will sort.
Note. Richard Quyny, to whom this letter is addressed, is the writer of the only extant letter addressed to Shakespeare (see document XXI). His life has been written by E. I. Fripp: Master Richard Quyny, Bailiff of Stratford-upon-Avon and Friend of William Shakespeare (1924). Abraham Sturley had been a student at Queens’ College, Cambridge, had ​been elected Bailiff of Stratford in 1596. He was a legal and business agent, doing business for Sir Thomas Lucy among others.
* ↑ Richard Quyny’s father, Adrian Quyny, a neighbor and close associate of John Shakespeare from 1552. Like the poet’s father he had served as Bailiff of the town, and in 1572 was joined with John Shakespeare in a mission to London on corporation business.
* ↑ A yardland was a section of about thirty acres.
* ↑ ‘Do not fail to urge this and, as far as you can, to urge it thoroughly; for this will be of the greatest consequence both to him and to us. This would be a labor, this a work, of surpassing honor and credit to him [i.e. Shakespeare].’
* ↑ I.e. districts, counties.
* ↑ In connection with this paragraph of Sturley’s letter see the next document.
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# Shakespeare of Stratford/The Biographical Facts/Fact 19

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New Haven: Yale University Press, pages 25–27
​XIX. SHAKESPEARE RECOGNIZED AS ONE OF THE CLASSIC ENGLISH POETS (1598).
(A) Francis Meres, Palladis Tamia, 1598.
As the Greek tongue is made famous and eloquent by Homer, Hesiod, Euripides, Æschylus, Sophocles, Pindarus, Phocylides, and Aristophanes; and the Latin tongue by Vergil, Ovid, Horace, Silius Italicus, Lucanus, Lucretius, Ausonius, and Claudianus: so the English tongue is mightily enriched and gorgeously invested in rare ornaments and resplendent habiliments ​by Sir Philip Sidney, Spenser, Daniel, Drayton, Warner, Shakespeare, Marlow, and Chapman.
As the soul of Euphorbus was thought to live in Pythagoras: so the sweet witty soul of Ovid lives in mellifluous and honey-tongued Shakespeare, witness his Venus and Adonis, his Lucrece, his sugared Sonnets among his private friends, &c.
As Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best for comedy and tragedy among the Latins: so Shakespeare among the English is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage. For comedy witness his Gentlemen of Verona, his Errors, his Love Labors Lost, his Love Labors Won, his Midsummer’s Night Dream, and his Merchant of Venice: for tragedy his Richard the 2., Richard the 3., Henry the 4., King John, Titus Andronicus, and his Romeo and Juliet.
As Epius Stolo said that the Muses would speak with Plautus’ tongue, if they would speak Latin: so I say that the Muses would speak with Shakespeare’s fine filed phrase, if they would speak English.
As Ovid saith of his work,
and as Horace saith of his, Exegi monumentum aere perennius . . .: so say I severally of Sir Philip Sidney’s, Spenser's, Daniel’s, Drayton’s, Shakespeare’s, and Warner’s works.
(B) Richard Barnfield, Poems in Divers Humors, 1598.
​From A Remembrance of Some English Poets.
(C) MS. notes by Gabriel Harvey, written in his copy of Speght’s Chaucer (1598).
The younger sort takes much delight in Shakespeare’s Venus and Adonis; but his Lucrece and his tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, have it in them to please the wiser sort. . . . Excellent matter of emulation for Spencer, Constable, France, Watson, Daniel, Warner, Chapman, Silvester, Shakespeare, and the rest of our flourishing metricians.
* ↑ Elsewhere in his book Meres lists Shakespeare as among the best English writers of lyric, tragedy, comedy, and love poetry. Palladis Tamia was licensed for publication, under the translated title of Wit’s Treasury, September 7, 1598; and was composed during the summer.
* ↑ The date at which Harvey inserted these notes is disputed. It may have been as early as 1598, when he purchased the volume, and cannot well be later than 1601. Cf. G. C. Moore Smith, Gabriel Harvey’s Marginalia, Preface.
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# Shakespeare of Stratford/The Biographical Facts/Fact 20

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New Haven: Yale University Press, pages 27–28
​XX. SHAKESPEARE A PRINCIPAL ACTOR IN BEN JONSON’S ‘EVERY MAN IN HIS HUMOUR’ (1598) AND ‘SEJANUS’ (1603).
Note in the Jonson Folio of 1616.
This Comedy was first acted in the year 1598 by the then L. Chamberlain his Servants. The principal Comedians were Will. Shakespeare, Aug. Philips, Hen. Condel, Will. Slye, Will. Kempe, Ric. Burbadge, Joh. Hemings, Tho. Pope, Chr. Beeston, Joh. Dyke.
Note. Rowe (1709) records the anecdote that Shakespeare’s influence caused the Chamberlain’s company to produce Every Man in His Humour after they had ​determined to reject the play. Shakespeare is named also among the actors of Jonson’s Sejanus (1603), but is not mentioned in the cast of Volpone, The Alchemist, and Catiline, later plays acted by his company. Hence it is inferred that he gave up acting about 1603.
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# Shakespeare of Stratford/The Biographical Facts/Fact 18

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New Haven: Yale University Press, pages 24–25
​XVIII. SHAKESPEARE’S NAME BEGINS TO APPEAR ON THE TITLE-PAGES OF HIS PLAYS (1598).
(A) Richard II (second and third editions).
The Tragedy of King Richard the Second. As it hath been publicly acted by the Right Honourable the Lord Chamberlain his Servants. By William Shake-speare. . . . 1598.
​(B) Richard III (second edition).
The Tragedy of King Richard the Third. Containing his treacherous Plots against his brother Clarence, the pitiful murther of his innocent nephews, his tyrannical usurpation, with the whole course of his detested life and most deserved death. As it hath been lately acted by the Right Honourable the Lord Chamberlain his servants. By William Shake-speare. . . . 1598.
(C) Love’s Labour’s Lost (earliest extant edition).
A pleasant conceited comedy called Loves Labors Lost. As it was presented before her Highness this last Christmas. Newly corrected and augmented by W. Shakespere. . . . 1598.
Note. Editions of both Richard II and Richard III, and one of Romeo and Juliet, appeared in 1597, all without any mention of the author. The earliest edition of the first part of Henry IV in 1598 likewise fails to indicate the author’s name, but the second quarto (1599) says, ‘Newly corrected by W. Shakespeare.’
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# Shakespeare of Stratford/The Biographical Facts/Fact 22

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New Haven: Yale University Press, pages 29–30
​XXII. ALLUSIONS TO SHAKESPEARE’S LOAN TO QUYNY (1598).
(A) Extract from undated letter (ca. November 1, 1598) from Adrian Quyny of Stratford to his son Richard in London. (Corporation Records, Stratford.)
If you bargain with Wm. Sha. . or receive money there, bring your money home that you may; and see how knit stockings be sold. There is great buying of them at Evesham. Edward Wheat and Harry, your brother[’s] man, were both at Evesham this day sennight, and, as I heard, bestow 20$^{li.}$ there in knit hose; wherefore I think you may do good, if you can have money.
(B) Extract from letter of Abraham Sturley to Richard Quyny in London, November 4, 1598. (Ibid.)
Your letter of the 25. of October came to my hands the last of the same at night per Greenway, which imported a stay of suits by Sir Ed. Gr[eville’s] advice, until &c., and that only you should follow on for ​tax and subsidy presently, and also your travel and hinderance of answer therein by your long travel and the affairs of the Court; and that our countryman, Mr. Wm. Shak. would procure us money, which I will like of as I shall hear when, and where, and how; and I pray let not go that occasion, if it may sort to any indifferent conditions.
Note. Richard Quyny was a mercer by occupation. Hence his father’s suggestion for using any residue of the money borrowed from Shakespeare to stock his shop. Sturley’s letter indicates that Quyny had informed him that Shakespeare would procure them money on the very day (October 25) on which Quyny addressed his note to the poet. Fripp (Richard Quyny, p. 139) assumes from this that Quyny must have received a favorable answer from the poet on the same day; but Sturley is evidently uncertain about details and somewhat skeptical.
* ↑ Greenway was the ‘carrier’ who delivered parcels between London and Stratford.
* ↑ So in the original. Sir Edward Greville was lord of the manor of Stratford, with whom the town corporation frequently had trouble.
* ↑ ‘That you should confine yourself to securing from the court a relief from taxation.’ Bad harvests and two disastrous fires had greatly impoverished the town of Stratford.
* ↑ Reasonable.
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# Shakespeare of Stratford/The Biographical Facts/Fact 15

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​XV. SHAKESPEARE PURCHASES ‘NEW PLACE’ IN STRATFORD (1597).
‘Foot of fine’ (essential part) of deed transferring New Place from William Underhill to William Shakespeare, Easter Term (May 4), 1597. In Public Record Office.
Inter Willm Shakespeare, querentem, et Willm ​Underhill, generosum, deforciantem, de uno mesuagio, duobus horreis, et duobus gardinis cum pertinenciis in Stratford super Avon, unde placitum convencionis summonitum fuit inter eos in eadem curia, Scilicet quod predictus Wills. Underhill recognovit predicta tenementa cum pertinenciis esse jus ipsius Willi. Shakespeare ut illa que idem Wills. habet de dono predicti Willi. Underhill, et illa remisit et quietumclamavit de se et heredibus suis predicto Willo. Shakespeare et heredibus suis imperpetuum; et preterea idem Wills. Underhill concessit pro se et heredibus suis quod ipsi warantizabunt predicto Willo. Shakespeare et heredibus suis predicta tenementa cum pertinenciis imperpetuum; et pro hac recognicione, remissione, quieta clamancia, warancia, fine, et concordia idem Wills Shakespeare dedit predicto Willo. Underhill sexaginta libras sterlingorum. In cuius rei testimonium . . .
iiij° die Maii anno regni supradicto.
Note. New Place, the second largest house in Stratford, was built over a century before Shakespeare acquired it by a member of the important Clopton family. It stood at the corner of Chapel Street and Chapel Lane, north of the Guild Chapel. In 1563 the house passed from the possession of William Clopton ​to that of a wealthy, though apparently unscrupulous, capitalist, William Bott, who sold it in 1567 to William Underhill, father of the William who appears as vendor in the sale to Shakespeare. Shakespeare’s family entered into occupation of the house very shortly after he had purchased it, but a further transaction with a member of the Underhill family became necessary in 1602 to assure the poet’s title (see document XXXV). New Place remained Shakespeare’s home till his death, and his will makes elaborate provision for its transfer to his heirs, who continued to own it till the death in 1670 of Lady Bernard, his granddaughter and last lineal descendant. In accordance with Lady Bernard’s will the house was sold, and ultimately passed back to the Clopton family, one of whom in 1702 erected a new house on the site of the Shakespearean mansion. (See Halliwell-Phillipps, Outlines of the Life of Shakespeare, seventh ed., 1887, ii. 101–135, for a full account of the history of New Place.)
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# Some Sort of Somebody

Popular song from the musical comedy Miss Information (1915), also included in Very Good Eddie (1915).
* "Some Sort of Somebody", sheet music from Very Good Eddie (1915).
* "Some Sort of Somebody" in The Canadian Soldiers' Song Book (1916).
# Some Sort of Somebody (1915)

* information about this edition.
* sister projects: Wikidata item.
Song from the musical Very Good Eddie.
[Verse]
    (She) Have you ever really tried to concentrate?
    (He) I don't know the meaning of the word;
    (She) Then when you think you love a girl you hesitate?
    (He) Not too long, for that would be absurd!
    I know that when I'm ninety, with a long grey beard,
    I'll still be making up my mind.
    (She) Procrastination is a habit to be feared,
    You will always find.
[Refrain]
    (She) Some of the time you think you love a brunette
    (He) I know the kind who had a Spanish mother!
    (She) Some of the time you love a blond.
    (He) Who came from Eden, by way of Sweden!
    (She) And sometimes they're short, or they may be tall!
    (He) They may pass by And sometimes they fall!
    (Both) But you love some sort of somebody
    All of the time.
[Verse]
    (He) I have travelled all around this world of ours
    (She) I don't doubt that you've been going some.
    (He) And I have sipped the honey from the rarest flow'rs!
    (She) You have sent the flow'rs and sipped the rum!
    (He) In ev'ry foreign country I have met my fate.
    I've met her so much, I am tired!
    (She) Can you remain quite neutral and to me relate,
    Which you most admire.
[Refrain]
    (He) Some of the time I loved a girl from Berlin
    (She) Sie war so schöen und lustig und so weiter!
    (He) Some of the time she came from Spain.
    (She) Your heart was full, oh! Of throw the Bull oh!
    (He) And Italian girls, And French I adore!
    (She) Now then we know Who started the war!
    (Both) But you love some sort of somebody
    All of the time.

## Notes

* ↑ German for "She was so pretty and funny and so forth!"
* ↑ He sings "I", she sings "you".
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