Shakspeare and His Times [Vol. 1 of 2]

Note 293:A — Chapter VIII

Reading edition

This beautiful encomium has been quoted in Walton's Complete Angler, with many alterations, and some of them much for the worse; for instance, the very opening of the quotation is thus given:—

"Let me live harmlessly; and near the brink Of Trent or Avon have a dwelling-place—

and the conclusion of the fourth stanza:—

"The raging sea, beneath the vallies low, Where lakes, and rills, and rivulets do flow."

Bagster's edit. p. 123.

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