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old ballads * and been bound up with all such collections—many poems among which are not one atom better ; and , as to his plays , they would perhaps have been bound up with Pericles , Titus Andronicus , the Yorkshire Tragedy , &c . Mrs . Albion . I can hardly think that . All those pieces
contain internal evidence of Shakspeare ' s mind in isolated passages . Nobody else could have written that appalling domestic sketch called the Yorkshire Tragedy . As to the plays young Ireland said he found , they should never have been bound up with my copy of Shakspeare *
Mr . Albion . You don ' t know : you might have been cajoled out of sympathy , from some cause or other . Mrs . Albion . As sacred relics then , like a lock of hair , a mouldy neck-ruff , an old hat , or a bit of the dear old mulberry tree ; not as fine bequests of his heart and intellect . Harry of Newmarket . That ' s near enough .
Mas . Albion . Supposing I had done so : but how did young Ireland fare amidst all this popularity of odium ? Mr . Albion . He had run away from his father ' s house—in fact I think his father had turned him out , or at all events he forbade his return . It was , however , asserted by some very liberal-mindied
folks that this was only a ruse , and that he was merely the tool of his father all through the affair , the latter having cooked up the MSS . in question . But there are no grounds for this supposition to bo deduced from the writings of his father , or his general character , which seems to have been as unlike that of his son as
could well be . Moses . I wish I had been his father ! All ( laughing * ) . Ha ! ha ! ha ! No doubt . Moses . Or himself either . I would have managed matters better . I would have held my tongue , and enjoyed the joke ifr all its bearings . Mrs . Albion . How are we to translate the word ' enjoyment ?* Moses . As < profit / to be sure ; but it seems he had no enjoyment either of the joke or its consequences . Mrs . Albion . Quite the contrary , it appears . To have made fools of so many learned men , holding an influential position in the
literary world , —no matter with how little merit—could hardly turn out otherwise than serious towards the unfortunate perpetrator of the ingenious deception . Mr . Albion . Mark the consequences . Every subsequent attempt he made in literature was quashed directly it appeared ; and he was followed through life with persecution , both in public and private . I do not say his compositions contained anything that could be called fine or original ; but they were not examined with any view to discriminate their value or mediocrity—his name alone waa a denunciation . Hia fate , observes one of the newspapers , is a fearful warning to all young aspirants ; for he began his Career
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1835, page 383, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2646/page/19/
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