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about him . I cannot fix my eyes ( as one would say ) on the shifting and sudden shade-and-shine , whicli cometh back to me , do what I will , and mazes me in a manner , and blinks me . " * At this juncture I was ready to fall upon the ground before his worship , and clasp his knees for Willy ' s pardon . But he had so many points about him , that I feared to discompose ' em , and thus make bad worse . Beside which , Master Silas left rne but scanty space for good resolutions , crying ,
" He may be committed , to save time . Afterwards lie may be sentenced to death , or he may not . " 4 Sir Thomas . — " 'Twere shame upon me were he not : ' twere
indication that I acted unadvisedly in the commitment . " 4 Silas . — " The penalty of the law may be commuted , if expedient , on application to the fountain of mercy in London . " ' Sir Thomas . —* ' Maybe , Silas , those shall be standing round the fount of mercy who play in idleness and wantonness with its waters , and let them not flow widely , nor take their natural course . ^ Dutiful gallants may encompass it , and it may linger among the flowers they throw into it , and never reach the parched lip on the wayside . '" These are homely thoughts—thoughts from a-fiekl , thoughts for
the study and housekeeper ' s room . But , whenever I have given utterance unto them , as my heart hath often prompted me with beatings at the breast , my hearers seemed to bear towards me more true and kindly affection than my richest fancies and choicest phraseologiescould purchase . 4 Twere convenient to bethink thee , should any other great man ' s
park have been robbed this season , no judge upon the bench will back my recommendation for mercy . And , indeed , how could I expect it ? Things may soon be brought to such a pass that their lordships shall scarcely find three haunches each upon the circuit . " ' . " Well , Sir ! ' * quoth Master Silas , you have a right to goon in your own way . Make him only give up the girl . " 4 Here Sir Thomas reddened with righteous indignation , and answered ,
* " I cannot think it ! such a stripling ? poor , pennyless : it must be some one else . " 4 And now Master Silas did redden in his turn redder than Sir Thomas , and first asked rne ,
* ' * What the devil do you stare at ?" * And then asked his worship , 4 Who should it be if not the rogue V and his lips turned as blue as a blue-bell . 4 Then Sir Thomas left the window , and again took his chair , and having stood so long on his legs , groaned upon it to ease him . His worship scowled with all his might , and looked exceedingly wroth and vengeful at the culprit , and said unto him , * 4 < Harkye , knave ? I have been conferring with my learned clerk and chaplain in what manner I may , with the least severity , rid the county ( which thou disgracest ) of thee . " 4
William Shakspeare raised up his eyes , modestly and fearfully , and said slowly these few words ,, which , had they been a better and nobler man ' s , would deserve to be written in letters of gold . I , not having that art nor substance , do therefore write them in my largest and roundest
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50 'Examination of Shakspeare .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1835, page 50, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2641/page/50/
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