News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1892-09-15
Extracts From Note Book on Eng
land.

J Editor News And Citizen:-
At the time of the writing of M
} last letter | was about to leave Win,
sor Palace for Warwick. / spent
, quiet Sabbath in the quaint old tow
as anticipated, attending the Eng
lish services at the Ancient st. Mary
Cathedral in the morning and I'll
plain services at the church of til
Dissenters, whose pastor had som,
thing of a nasal twang, in the ev,
ming.
This is a beautiful region. Th
roads are very fine, as they are every
where in Great Britain, and the fol
age of the many shade trees by tn
roadside and i'll the parks is yer
green and luXuriant from the grea
amount of moisture on the islands
A pleasant walk of five miles take
one to the famous Kennilworth Gas
tie, the center of interest in Scott
kennilwOrth, now a picturesque rui
surrounded by lofty wall. In earl
times an artificial lake encircled it OIL
three sides.
A few hours were spent Monda.
morning in Warwick Castle, the mos
perfect feudal fortress in England
This castle, founded more than a thou
sand years by Earl of Warwick, i
still used as the dwelling place of the
same family.
Guy Warwick, the founder, is repre-
sented as a giant whose height ex
ceeded nine feet. His wonderful feat,
of strength afford matter for a vol
umn. His porridge potshown among
the many interesting relics will holC
barrel of liquor and was repeatedly
filled at the carousal when the last
earl became of age. In the egreenhoust
is the celebrated Warwick Vase, O
white marble, one of the finest speci
mems of ancient sculpture at present
known, and compared with which the
Castle itself is but the thing of a day
1t was found in Adrians' Villa, near
Tivoli, Italy, and is of unknown age
and workmanship; it is about twelve
feet in height and eight in diameter
The state apartments, extending
about $50 feet in length, contains
many famous paintings and the
armoury rare collection of ancient
arms and curiosities of great value.
From the top of the towers a grand
view of the neighboring country is
obtained, while the "soft-howing
Avon," which leaves the foundation
of the Castle, falls with Soothing
sound" over a cascade nearly two
hundred feet below our point of OBJ
servatiOn.
Monday afternoon was spent in
Stratford on Avon; most of the time
of course being given to the home
and memorials of Shakespeare.
Shakespeare s house has in these lat
er years been purchased by a Shake
speare society of Great Britain and
restored as nearly as possible to it's
original condition. This is held as a
kind of museum where everything
pertaining to Shakespeare is kept,
the different portraits, furniture,
writings, etc. The houses adjoining
it have been pulled down in order to
guard against fire and every precau-
tion taken to preserve every relic OF
the great author. The Shakespeare
memorial. consisting of a Theatre
Library, Picture Gallery and dIMuseum
and the Memorial Fount and Clock
Tower given 10y A. p. Childs of Phil
adelphia, are worthy the fame of his
genius.
We visited the ancient Collegiate
church OF the Holy Trinity, so init
mately associated with the opening
and closing scenes ofShakespear's life
Here he was brought on April 25th
1864, when only two days old, to be re-
ceived into the Christian church by
baptism, and here his mortal remains
were brought for burial April 26,
1916. The remains of the font in
which he was baptised are preserved
in the church, and the stones which
marks his grave is within the altar
rails. Upon this we read those well
known lines which it is claimed have
prevented the removal of his bones
to a more honorable resting place, if
that can be found:
Good friend for Jesus sake forbeare,
To dig the dust enclosed heare,
Bless be We man vt spares thes stones,
And curst be he vt moves my bones"
No one now supposes that Shakes
peare ever wrote such doggerel him
self. 1t is more likely that they were
lines in common use at that time just
as such horrors are now seen in an
cient burial grounds in old countries
and even in our own. 1t was proba-
bly, intended to prevent the throwing
of his bones into the Charnel or
"Bone House" which often happened
when bones were found in the digging
of fresh graves. Beside him lies
Anne his wife, who died in 1923.
The real monument to Shakespeare
is not the slab with its rhyme, but
the beautiful marble bust on the wall
above. This is supposed to have been
erected soon after his death and bears
this inscription.
"Judicio Pylium, genio Socratem,
Ante Marouem
Terrategit, Populus maeset,
Olympushabet."
"Stay passenger why goest thou by so fast
Read il thou canst, whom envious death hath
plast
Within this monument, Shakespeare with
whome,
Quick nature dide, whose name doth deck ye
Tombe,
For more than cost, sic all We He hath WRIT.
Leavesliving art, but page, to serve his witt"
0bt Ano Do. 1916, Htatis 80 die 23 Ap.
In Judgment Nestor in intellect a Socra-
ties, in art Virgil the earth covers, the peo-
pie mourn, Olympus has him.
In the church, kept under glass, is
the Register of the Baptisms, Mar
riages and Burials ofthe Parish from
the year 1868. This register, which
is under lock and key and carefully
removed to n fire proof safe every
night, is open at the two pages which
record the baptism and burial of Will
liam Shakespeare. The first entry
reads thus: 1854, APP. 26, Guliel-
mus filius" Johannes Shakespeare.
And the second. "1616, Ap. %, Win
Shakespeare, gent.
A pleasant walk of a mile or two
across the fields leads to the little
thatcbad cottage -of Ann Hathaway,
in the village of Shottery. This little
village and cottage is ofinterest only
because of the associations with the
courtship and marriage of Shake
speare.
Henry Ward Beecher recites of a
Sunday at Stratiord. He had arriv-
ed on Saturday and thus notes it in
his Journal
"No greater change can be imagin-
ed than from the warlike towers of
Guy of Warwick to the quiet home
of Shakespeare. The scenes of Sat
urday had fired me; every visit to
various points of Standardization
added to the inspiration, until as |
sailed forth to church, | seemed not
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