The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1897-04-24
IN sHAKEsPEARE's TOWNS.

IN sHAKEsPEARE's TOWNS.
| The Burgesses Refuse n License to
the Lord High Adm1raIs Players.
master Skylark.''' by John Bennett,
is the leading serial Of the coming year
in st. Nicholas, beginning in the No
vember number. It is a story of the
time Of Shakespeare, and the poet fig
ures in it: This is a scene from the
| first instalment: jsE %G.
"Oh, Nick! such goings onr' called
Robin Getley, whose father was bur-
CESS, as Nick Atwood came slowly up
| the street, saying his sentences for the
day over and over to himself, in hope
| less desperation, having had no time to
| learn them at home. ''''Stratford coun-
| Gil has had quarrel, and there's. t. be
| 10 stage-play, after ALL
| "What?" cried Nick, in amazement.
'eNo stage play? And why not?''
| "Why," said Robin, ''it was just this
way: Ny father told me of it. Sir
| Thomas Lucy, high sheriff of Worces-
| ter, y'now, rode in from Charlotte yes
| ternoon, and with him Sir Edward Gre
vile of Milcote. So the burgesses made
| q feast for them at the Swan Inn Sir
Thomas fetched a fine, fat buck and
| the town stood for ninepence wine and
| twopence bread and broached a keg Of
! sturgeon And when they were all
| met together there, eating and drink
| ing and making merry-wnat? Why.
| it came out that my Lord Admiraps
! players from, London town, ruff1ing it
| like high dukes, and not caring two
| pops for Sir Edward or for Stratft.' !
burgesses all in heap; but sat the: n
called for ale as if they owned the
place, and, not7being served as soon1as
! they desired, they laid hands upon Sir
| Thomas server as he came in from the
buttery with his. tray full, and took
both meat and drink. -......,y
| 'What?" cried Nick; ..,..... .,2,
| ''As sure as shooting, they didr' said
| Robin; "and when Sir Thomas gentry
I yeomanry would have seen to it-What?
why. my Lord Admirars master play
er clapped his hand on his poniard-
| ihilt, and dared them come and take it
| if they could" - > s.: ..-.-
| s"To Sir Thomas Lucy'ss men?' ex-
claimed Nick, aghast. I'D ~ .,.s+ssz..5 y.
It,Skss y,sate their eth VI Sir Edward
kprallg up then and said & it, was a
| shame for players to behave so out
! lageously in Will Shakespeares own
| home town. And at that Sir Thomas.
whom, ye know, has always misliked
| Will, fared up like bull at a red rag,
and swore that all stage players be
runagate rognes, anyway, and Will
| Shakespeare nither more nor less than
a Devastating scape-gallows."
! ''Surely, he did na say that in STRAIT
ford council?" protested Nick.
| cay. but he did-that Cery thing"
said Robin, land when this was out,
the master-player sprang upon the
table. overtulning half the ale, and
cried out that Will Shakespeare was
| his very own true friend. and the
| sweetest fellow in all England; and
that Whosoever gainsaid it was a hemp
cracking rascal, and that he WOULD
| prove it upon his back with Il quarter
| staff whenever and wherever lie chose,
be it Sir Thomas Lucy. st. George and
| the Dragon. Guy Of Warwick, and the
/ great DIN cow. all rolled in up one!'
'!tobert Getley. is this the .ve:.:'
| truth, or art thou coZening me?''
Upon my word. it is the truth, said
Robin. 'sAnl that's MT all. Sir ed
ward cried out, .Tien upon the player
for a saucy varlet; but the fellow only
laughed and bowed quite To-: ,and said
| he took no offense from Sir Edward for
saying that. since it could not honestly
De denied, but that Sir Thomas did not
know the truth from a truckle-bcd in
broad daylight, and was but the rein
nant of a gentleman to- boot" =.
'0rhe bold-faced .rogue", .ss.,. ..,.t.
':Ay. tl,at he is,'', nodded Robin; "and
for his bcldness, Sir Thomas ..st:aight7
| way demanded that the high sheriff re-
fuse the company license to play n
.sRefnse* the Lord High Ad:niral's
Ip1ayers?'s = "a: ~ - ::,a*S =: ~
Marry, no one else. And then Mas
| ter John Shakespeare; wroth at what
SiryThomas had said of his own son,
! Will. vowed that he would send a let
ter down to London, town, and lay the
| whole coil before the. Lord High Ad-
| n:ira1 himself For ever since that he
was high haiIiff. the best companies Of
| England had always been hidden to
play in Stratford. and. it would be am
| jill thing now to refuse: the Lord High
| .AdmiraPs company, after granting u
| cense to both my Lord Pcmbroke's and
the High Chamberlain's." z4e ..Is.. i
And SO it would spoke up Walter
Roche. "for there are our own towns
men. Richard and Cuthtert Burbage,
who are cousins OF mine. and JOnn
Hemynge and Thomas Green, besides
| Win Shakespeare and his brother Ed
mund, all PLAYING in the Lord Cham
ebrlain's. company in London before
The queen, it would be a black score