<span style="color:grey">t-?oream Of tal s S dance round urf is which pillowd his head.

    tO a  on truly call ary feeling of someterritorial consequence ravel, s, ts  into slippers, and stretc t go as it may, let kingdoms rise or fall, so long as o pay ime being, tre, and ttle parlor, some t square, ed empire. It is a morsel of certainly snatc of tainties of life; it is a sunny moment gleaming out kindly on a cloudy day: and ence knoance of s of enjoyment.

    quot;S take mine ease in mine inn?quot; t I, as I gave tir, lolled back in my elbo look about ttle parlor of t Stratford-on-Avon.

    t S passing truck midnigole tap at tty cting in ating air,  as a modest  t it ime to retire. My dream of absolute dominion  an end; so abdicating my t potentate, to avoid being deposed, and putting tratford Guide-Book under my arm as a pillo to bed, and dreamt all nighe jubilee, and David Garrick.

    t morning imes   ter  its last gasp; and a mild air came stealing from t, breato Nature, and o burst forto fragrance and beauty.

    I o Stratford on a poetical pilgrimage. My ?rst visit o to tradition,  up to  of  is a small mean-looking edi?ce of er, a true nestling-place of genius, s squalid cions in every language by pilgrims of all nations, ranks, and conditions, from to t, and present a simple but striking instance of taneous and universal o   t poet of Nature.

    ty red face, ligi?cial locks of ?axen y cap. Sing ted shrines, abounds.

    ttered stock of tc ts. too, ical lantern  at tomb. tree, iplication as true cross, of  to build a she line.

    t favorite object of curiosity,  stands in a c be ening to tratford dealing fortales and legendary anecdotes of troublesome times of England. In t is tom of every one t visits to sit:

    a loss to say; I merely mention t, and mine ess privately assured me t, t of solid oak, suc zeal of devotees to be netomed at least once in t is ice also, in tory of traordinary c it partakes sometile nature of ta Casa of Loretto, or ter; for, to a nort, strange to tell, it s o the old chimney-corner.

    I am alters, and am ever o be deceived  and costs notes of goblins and great men, and ravellers i?cation to be the same.

    is it to us rue or false, so long as o ty? te good-y in tters, and on t even so far as o believe tess to a lineal descent from t, o my ion,  de?ance.

    From t me to  riced. It stands on t, and separated by adjoining gardens from tos situation is quiet and retired; t t of ts banks droop to its clear bosom. An avenue of limes, terlaced, so as to form in summer an arce of to tombstones, some of to tinted t ts among tinual ?utter and c its lofty gray spire.

    In t on,   Edmonds, and accompanied o get the church.

    ratford, man and boy, for eigill to consider rivial exception t  t. tage looking out upon ts bordering meadoure of t neatness, order, and comfort ry. A locer and earttered along table,   clock, t important article of cottage furniture, ticked on te side of t o admit a gossip knot s jambs.

    In one corner sat ter sety blue-eyed girl, and in te corner ed crony ogetottering about and gossiping a time toget is not often t reams of existence running tranquilly side by side; it is only in suc quot;bosom scenesquot; of life t to be met h.

    I o gatraditionary anecdotes of t c to impart. terval during ive neglect s sory, and it is  t scarcely anyto

    a scanty ures.

    ton and ers on tions for ted Stratford Jubilee, and te, s, and on, ;a s puncling.quot; Joed also in cutting do a sovereign quickener of literary conception.

    I o s speak very dubiously of t dame whe Shakespeare house.

    Joioned ible collection of relics, particularly ree; and ton even expressed a doubt as to S o ts tomb, tter ively but feors. t is t orians differ at tset, and mere pebbles make tream of truto different c tain-head.

    e approacered by a Goted, erior is spacious, and tecture and embelliss superior to t country c monuments of nobility and gentry, over some of ed  a s distance from tual murmur. A ?at stone marks t o ten by remely a solicitude about t of tural to ?ne sensibilities and tful minds:

    Just over t of S up sly after  is pleasant and serene,  I could read in it clear indications of t cion by ness of ion mentions  time of y-timely deat fruit mig ed from tumn of sucered as it ormy vicissitudes of life, and ?ourishe sunshine of popular and royal favor?

    tion on tombstone  been  its effect.

    It ed tive place to estminster Abbey, ime contemplated. A feo make an adjoining vault, to leave a vacant space almost like an arc o o meddle ion; and lest any of tor of relics sempted to commit depredations, ton kept cil t  o look in at t could see neit dust. It , to  of Shakespeare.

    Next to te daugomb close by, also, is a full-lengto ten a ludicrous epitaph.

    ts around, but to d is not connected  as his mausoleum.

    ted by doubt,  con?dence: otraces of  e certainty.

    As I trod t tense and t in very trut. It ime before I could prevail upon myself to leave trees, t I  from Stratford.

    I ed ts of a pilgrims devotion, but I o see t of t C, and to ramble terers of Stratford, committed ealing. In t old t aken prisoner and carried to t in doleful captivity.  into treatment must ing; for it so o produce a rougo te at C.*

    tious attack upon ty of t so incensed  o a la aro put ty of t talker. S  to brave ted puissance of a knigry attorney.  banks of ternal trade; o London; became a o tres; tor; and ?nally e for tage; and tion of Sir tratford lost an indifferent al poet. ained, ime, a sense of treatment of t, and revenged ings, but in tive ured mind. Sir to be tice Sire is slyly ?xed upon ices armorial bearings, erings.

    * tanza extant of this lampoon:

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    <span style="color:grey">e alloo mate,

    <span style="color:grey">If Lucy is lo,

    <span style="color:grey">tever befall it.

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    Various attempts o soften and explain aransgression of t; but I look upon it as one of tless exploits natural to uation and turn of mind. Sless all ty of an ardent, undisciplined, and undirected genius. tic temperament urally somet of t to itself it runs loosely and ious. It is often a turn up of a die, in te,  a great rogue or a great poet; and  Sunately taken a literary bias,  ranscended all civil as ic laws.

    I tle doubt t, in early life,  tratford, o be found in ters, t ed  mention of  to to less like a foray to a Scottis, and struck  untamed, imagination as sometfully adventurous.*

    * A proof of Ss and associates in raditionary anecdote, picked up at Stratford by tioned in ;Picturesque Vie;

    About seven miles from Stratford lies ty little market-tos ale. ties of to meet, under tion of topers, and to co a contest of drinking. Among otratford  to prove trengte of t quot;t; rue to aff to ratford aggered at t onset, and sounded a retreat o carry to lie doree,  ill standing, and goes by tree.

    In turning to Bedford, but h

    quot;to,quot; says Ireland, quot;still bear ts till famed for tabor; ed on is famous for ty of its soil.quot;

    t and its surrounding park still remain in teresting front being connected  eventful circumstance in ty ory of tood at little more tance from Stratford, I resolved to pay it a pedestrian visit, t I migroll leisurely t  ideas of rural imagery.

    try  naked and lea?ess, but Englis, and temperature of ts quickening effects upon t ing to ness t ao feel its ealing over to see t melloo put fort and tender blade, and trees and sints and bursting buds, giving turning foliage and ?o little borderer on ts of er, o be seen s ce tages. ting of t lambs ly tered about tce into e querulous ry strain; and too t ?eecy cloud, pouring fortorrents of melody. As I ctle songster mounting up il e bosom of till ?lled  called to mind Se little song in Cymbeline:

    <span style="color:grey"> e sings,

    Indeed, try about ic ground: everyted tage t I sao some resort of imate knoic life and manners, and ales and itions o ime, old, it  in er evenings quot;to sit round tell merry tales of errant knigs, ders,   c;*

    * Scot, in ;Discoverie of itc,quot; enumerates a of t;And t bull-beggars, spirits, cyrs, pans, faunes, syrens, kit icke, tritons, centaurs, des, imps, calcars, conjurors, nympom tom tumbler, boneless, and suc we were afraid of our own s;

    My route for a part of t of ty of t fancy doublings and ile valley--sometimes glittering from among imes disappearing among groves or beneatimes rambling out into full vieiful bosom of country is called tant line of undulating blue o be its boundary,  intervening landscape lies in a manner enche Avon.

    After pursuing t turned off into a footpato a private gate of tile,  of trian, t of  in table estates, in  least as far as tpat in some measure reconciles a poor man to , and, o tter lot of o ion.  t , at time, trouble of paying for it and keeping it in order.

    I nouries. tary nests in tree-tops. ta, o interrupt t a distant statue and a vagrant deer stalking like a she opening.

    t tately old avenues t  of Gotecture, not merely from tended similarity of form, but from tion, and of ime e ideas of romantic grandeur. token also ttled dignity and proudly-concentrated independence of an ancient family; and I  aristocratic old friend observe, ry, t quot;money could do mucone and mortar, but t;

    It  tic solitudes of t of tate, t some of Sators  meditations of Jaques and ting ures in quot;As You Like It.quot; It is in lonely  t quiet draugion, and becomes intensely sensible of ty and majesty of Nature. tion kindles into reverie and rapture, vague but exquisite images and ideas keep breaking upon it, and e and almost incommunicable luxury of t. It  ts fancy may o t little song wuary

    I  of t is a large building of brick one quoins, and is in tyle of Queen Elizabet in t year of erior remains very nearly in its original state, and may be considered a fair specimen of try gentleman of t gateo a kind of courtyard in front of ted , seation of t barbacan, being a kind of outpost and ?anked by toly for mere ornament, instead of defence. t of tely in tyle one-sed casements, a great boal  carved in stone. At eacagon toed by a gilt ball and her-cock.

    t at t of a gently-sloping bank ically upon its bosom. As I contemplated to mind   Falstaffs encomium on Justice Sed indifference and real vanity of tter:

    quot;Falstaff. You have a goodly dwelling and a rich.

    S;

    ever may y of t illness and solitude.

    t iron gate opened into tyard s bustling about tly at me as I passed, being no longer roopers of Stratford. tic life t I met e cat stealing ealtoables, as if on some nefarious expedition. I must not omit to mention t t s till in t lordly abain t rigorous exercise of territorial poed in the bard.

    After pro for some time, I at lengto a lateral portal, o the mansion.

    I eously received by a y and communicativeness of erior of ter part erations and been adapted to modern tastes and modes of living: taircase, and t  noble feature in an ancient manor-ill retains muc must y, and at one end is a gallery in ropry gentleman, raits. table ?replace, calculated for an ample old-faser festivity. On te side of tone ss, yard. ained glass tions, some being dated in 1558. I erings te luces by  identi?ed  of Justice Sioned in t scene of t;Merry ives of indsor,quot; aff for ;beaten o ; t  t time, and ive ts of t So be a caricature of tion of Sir thomas.

    quot;S: I ar Cter of it; if y Joaffs,  abuse Sir Robert Shallow, Esq.

    Slender. In ty of Gloster, justice of peace and coram.

    Salorum.

    Slender. Ay, and ratolorum too, and a gentleman born, master parson; tance, or obligation, Armigero.

    S I do; and ime three hundred years.

    Slender. All , and all ors t come after e luces in t. . . .

    S; it is a riot.

    Evans. It is not meet t; t in a riot; to , and not to ; take your vizaments in t.

    S!quot;

    Near trait, by Sir Peter Lely, of one of t beauty of time of Ced to ture, and informed me t ted to cards, and  portion of tate, among  of t  been entirely regained by t t day. It is but justice to t dame to confess t she had a surpassingly ?ne hand and arm.

    ture tracted my attention  painting over taining likenesses of Sir ted tter part of Sime. I at ?rst t t it ive knig t it  of tomb in t of C.*

    * te marble, and represents t in complete armor. Near omb is tion; ellectual level of Master Shallow:

    in ye county of arton in ye county of orcester Esquire  of tco ime of rue and fayt of ected of any cryme or vice. In religion most sounde, in love to  faytrue. In friends constant; to rust ted unto  secret. In e rare and singular. A great maintayner of ality. Greatly esteemed of ters; misliked of none unless of t can be saide a  to be bettered and o be equalled by any. As s virtuotisly so s Godly. Set do did knoen to be true.

    thomas Lucye.

    ture gives a lively idea of tume and manners of time. Sir t, ;a cane-colored beard.quot; ed on te side of ture in omac venerable stiffness and formality of dress. ed on imating ts skill in ing, o an accomplisleman in those days.*

    * Bisry gentleman of ime, observes, quot; families of dogs and serving-men attendant on ts is teems true burden of nobility, and is exceedingly ambitious to seem delig, and  gloved ; And Gilpin, in ion of a Mr.

    ings, remarks, quot; all sorts of  run buck, fox, ter, and badger; and  erriers. On a broad  terriers, ;

    I regretted to ?nd t t furniture of to meet ately elbo to sre of empire over  mig entate  pictures for my oertainment, I pleased myself  tion on ter ivity in to myself tentate surrounded by ler, pages, and blue-coated serving-men  ry clo leaned gracefully for pity quot;t d t, trembling before ty of a country squire, and t of rustic boors, o become t of princes, tongues and ages, tator to to confer immortality on ure and a lampoon?

    I ed by tler to o t inclined to visit tice treated Sir Joaff and Cousin Silence quot;to a last years pippin of ing, ; but I bad already spent so muc I o give up any furtigations.  to take my leave I i?ed by treaties of tler t I ake some refres--an instance of good old ality le-ers seldom meet  it is a virtue ative of ts from ors; for Sure, makes Justice Sunate in t, as ness ances to Falstaff:

    quot;By cock and pye, Sir, you s ao-nig excuse you; you s be excused; excuses s be admitted; t be excused. . . . Some pigeons, Davy, a couple of s-legged  of mutton; and any pretty little tiny kicksell `illiam Cook.quot;

    I noant fareo tely possessed by ters connected  t I seemed to be actually living among t t  expected to er Silence quavering forte ditty:

    <span style="color:grey">quot;tis merry in hall, when beards wag all,

    On returning to my inn I could not but re?ect on t of t, to be able to spread ture, to give to ter not to turn t;; into a perfect fairy-land. rue encer,  upon t upon tion and t. Under te delusion. I ry,  ic po  in spirit  Jack Falstaff and emporaries, from t Justice So tle Master Slender and t Anne Page. ten ties of life  illusions, we and unboug in many a lonely hies of social life!

    As I crossed turn, I paused to contemplate tant c lies buried, and could not but exult in tion s quiet and s.  y companionsapcitled multitude?  minster Abbey o stand in beautiful loneliness as ude about t t sensibility; but ure is made up of foibles and prejudices, and its best and tenderest affections are mingled itious feelings.  reno t of er all, t tion, no applause, so s to t  is t o be gat and failing o urns as fondly as does t to to sink to sleep in the scene of his childhood.

    of tful o it covered   and glory of ive place; t s most precious treasure; and t its lessening spire, on emplation, so tle landscape to guide terary pilgrim of every nation to omb!