CONTENTS
PAGEShakespeare at Charlecote Park1Shakespeare at “Bank-side”7The Epitaph of Sir Hugh Evans13Bully Bottom’s Babes22Shakespeare in China28Solomon’s Ape39The Castle Builders of Padua46The Tapestry Weaver of Beauvais50The Wine Cellar: A “Morality”58Recollections of Guy Fawkes67Elizabeth and Victoria75The Little Great and the Great Little90The Manager’s Pig95Some Account of a Stage Devil103Fireside Saints121Cat-and-Fiddle Moralities: The Tale of a Tiger127A Gossip at Reculvers140The Two Windows150The Order of Poverty154The Old Man at the Gate166The Folly of the Sword171The Greenwich Pensioner181The Drill Sergeant189The Handbook of Swindling199