| Show LOWLY FOLLOWERS OF POET great ones of the earth long re rc fused to recognize shakespeare Shakespea a but he had his disciples william shakespeare the monarch of mankind was in life a humble youth auth who came with his people drori an interior village tillage to a place tit in the fields outside the th walls of the chief city he had to do with a stable lie returned whence jie he came and was not seen by his disciples after his disappearance from the t theaters heaters ht hla companions and disciples clung cl u faigao to III his memory and printed his book the tha learned brushed it all aside abide he himself had cared no more for his dramatic works than epic tetus or socrates cared for literary fame As late as doctor johnsona johnson W time the shakespeare book was to be denounced by scholars as lacking lack lugi in many poesies necessary ary to such a ai work it good but never d did id the dis caples el pies and their lowly kind depart from the devout worship of shakespeare which we ourselves must finally offer ile he who had been of the lorb of th tha I 1 kings kitchen servants by courtesy courte by barn stor mers poor players strutting their brief lipai this meek and lowly lordi lord when he arose into heaven was worshiped by kitchen servants who had bad na no literary comb to lose we shall note in all the time that now Is counted this side bide of Shake death that his most faithful worship era er a have been of humble state and 13 small in all acco account william shakespeare s P eare john johm mcgovern in national magazine |
