Book contents
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- CHAPTER I ENGLAND AND THE ENGLISH
- PART I SHAKESPEARE'S YOUTH, STRATFORD 1564–1586
- PART II SHAKESPEARE IN LONDON 1586–1608
- CHAPTER V LONDON
- CHAPTER VI BOOKS AND AUTHORS
- CHAPTER VII THE THEATRE
- CHAPTER VIII THE COURT
- PART III SHAKESPEARE'S LAST YEARS, STRATFORD 1608–1616
- CONCLUSION: AN ELIZABETHAN DAY
- GLOSSARY AND NOTES
- INDEX OF AUTHORS
- Plate section
CHAPTER V - LONDON
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 September 2010
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- CHAPTER I ENGLAND AND THE ENGLISH
- PART I SHAKESPEARE'S YOUTH, STRATFORD 1564–1586
- PART II SHAKESPEARE IN LONDON 1586–1608
- CHAPTER V LONDON
- CHAPTER VI BOOKS AND AUTHORS
- CHAPTER VII THE THEATRE
- CHAPTER VIII THE COURT
- PART III SHAKESPEARE'S LAST YEARS, STRATFORD 1608–1616
- CONCLUSION: AN ELIZABETHAN DAY
- GLOSSARY AND NOTES
- INDEX OF AUTHORS
- Plate section
Summary
Shallow. I'll drink to Master Bardolph and to all the cavaleiroes about London.
Davy. I hope to see London once ere I die.
2 Henry IV, v. iii. 60–1Shallow. O, Sir John, do you remember since we lay all night in the windmill in Saint George's fields?…
Silence. That's fifty-five year ago.
Shallow. Ha! cousin Silence, that thou hadst seen that that this knight and I have seen. Ha! Sir John, said I well?
Falstaff. We have heard the chimes at midnight, Master Shallow.
Shallow. That we have, that we have, that we have; in faith, Sir John, we have. Our watchword was, ‘Hem, boys!’ Come, let's to dinner; come, let's to dinner. Jesus, the days that we have seen! come, come.
Ibid. iii. ii. 208–37THE ROAD TO LONDON
Jog on, jog on the foot-path way,
And merrily hent the stile-a:
A merry heart goes all the day,
Your sad tires in a mile-a.
The Winter's Tale, iv. ii. 133–6The State of the Roads
Now to speak generally of our common highways through the English part of the isle (for of the rest I can say nothing), you shall understand that in the clay or cledgy soil they are often very deep and troublesome in the winter half. Wherefore by authority of parliament an order is taken for their yearly amendment, whereby all sorts of the common people do employ their travail for six days in summer upon the same.
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- Life in Shakespeare's EnglandA Book of Elizabethan Prose, pp. 74 - 138Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009First published in: 1911