Doubtful Plays Of William Shakespeare [Paperback]

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1869 Excerpt: ...can Humber give you any meat? Retires back. Enter Stbumbo, wearing a Scotch cap, with a pitchfork in his hand. Strum. How do you, masters, how do you? how have you 'scaped hanging this long time? I' faith I have 'scaped many a scouring this year; but I thank God I have pass'd them all with a good coraggio, and my wife and I are in great love and charity now, I thank my manhood and my strength. For I will tell you, masters: Upon a certain day at night I came home, to say the very truth, with my stomach full of wine, and ran up into the chamber, where my wife soberly sat rocking my little baby, leaning her back against the bed, singing lullaby. Now when she saw me come with my nose foremost, thinking that I had been drunk (as I was indeed), she snatched up a fagot-stick in her hand, and came furiously marching towards me, with a big face, as though she would have eaten me at a bit; thundering out these words unto me: Thou drunken knave, where hast thou been so long? I shall teach thee how to benight me another time: and so she began to play knaves trumps. Now, although I trembled, fearing she would set her ten commandments in my face, I ran within her, and delighted her so with the sport I made, that ever after she would call me sweet husband; and so banished brawling for ever. And to see the good-will of the wench!--She bought with her portion a yard of land, and by that I am now become one of the richest men in our parish. Well, masters, what's o'clock? It is now breakfast time; you shall see what meat I have here for my breakfast. Sits down, and takes out his victuals. Hum. Was ever land so fruitless as this land? Was ever grove so graceless as this grove? Was ever soil so barren as this soil? Oh no: the land where hungry Fames dwelt, May no ways equalize ...