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Show WHY HIS "SECOND BEST BED"? Writer Feels Called On to Criticize Shakespeare for Provision Made In His Will. We are Indebted to an English publication pub-lication for a copy'of the last will and testament of the late William Shakespeare. Shake-speare. In the course of this document, docu-ment, we observe the following sentence sen-tence : "I gyve onto my wief my second best bed with the furniture." We have no desire to find fault with the successful poet and dramatist of Stratford for this apparent discrimination discrimina-tion against the Widow Shakespeare. What disposition -Tie made of his first best bed is a matter that is not revealed re-vealed by the copy of the will of the- versatile author whose last testament.-' Is reported in the columns of our alert London contemporary. However, we-don't we-don't think Mr. S. showed just the-right the-right spirit in gyveing onto his wief his second best hod. O. why did he not gyve onto her h!s first bed, or his tee potfe or his ptinche bole with the gilt butterllyes. or Ids favorytte wigge. or his safetie raztire, or fountain penne. or bicycle anything, in fact, but his second sec-ond best bed? No doubt Mr. Shakespeare had gone-to gone-to bed with his hoots? on many a Saturday Satur-day night in that very second best bed, and yet, hallowed as it was by such memories, one cannot hut feel that the-widow the-widow was treated unfairly. Perhaps-Will's Perhaps-Will's folks Influenced h'.m. As a co-writer co-writer we have only ihe highest regard and esteem for liiin. But we don't think he acted right about friend wief. Thrift Magazine. |