"O Jupiter, how weary are my spirits!" sighed Shakespeare, like his
own Rosalind, as, flinging himself beneath the broad and leafy boughs,
he became submerged in the infinite, the maternal peace of Nature.
Shortly, as darkness deepened, he would return to his lonely room in
Silver Street, challenged by the watch and replying in some gay jest:
shortly he would toss upon a sleepless bed, consumed by violent and
varied emotions, until the cooler wind that comes with dawn should
soothe him into rest. But now he lay, like the three wanderers in
Arden, against the bole of a huge oak, watching the glow-worms
gleaming around and the stars stealing forth above him: until the
floor of Heaven was "all o'erlaid with patines of bright gold," and
the day, by that celestial sign, was ended.
_Printed by Percy Lund, Humphries & Co., Ltd. Bradford and London._
End of Project Gutenberg's A Day with William Shakespeare, by Maurice Clare
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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