...that they took with the people, and we have Ben Jonson's testimony that they took with the court. ' Sweet swan of Avon ! what a sight it were To see thee in our waters yet appear ; And make those flights upon the banks of Thames That so did take Eliza and our...

...took with the people, and we have Ben Jouson's testimony that they took with the court. ' Sweet Bwnn of Avon! what a sight it were To see thee in our waters yet appear; And make those flights upon the banks of Thames That so did take Eliza aud our James...

...dropped tears over his new-made grave at Stratford, on the river Avon, in his mourafulness he sung— " Sweet swan of Avon ! what a sight it were To see thee in our waters yet appear! But stay ! I see thee in the hemisphere Advanced, and made a constellation there:...

...true-filed lines : In each of which, he seemes to shake a Lance, As brandish't at the eyes of Ignorance. Sweet Swan of Avon! what a sight it were To see thee in our waters yet appeare, And make those flights upon the bankes of Thames, That so did take Eliza and our...

...•which Queen Elizabeth and her successor King James entertained of the genius of Shakespeare : ' Sweet swan of Avon, what a sight it were To see thee in our waters yet appear, And make those nights upon the banks of Thames ? That so did take Eliza and our...

...truc-filed'lincs ; In each of which he seems to shake a lance, As brandish'd at the eyes of ignorance. Sweet swan of Avon, what a sight it were, To see thee in our waters yet appear ; And make those flights upon the banks of Thames, That so did take Eliza and our...

...paid to his popularity, as well as to his merit, a tribute, after the death of the great dramatist. ' Sweet Swan of Avon, what a sight it were, To see thee in our waters yet appear ; And make these flights upon the banks of Thames, That so did take Eliza and our...

...true-filed lines : In each of which, he seemes to shake a Lance, As brandish't at the eyes of Ignorance. CH. Good my lord of Lancaster, I am not here against your fa waters yet appeare, And make those flights upon the baiikes of Thames, That so did take Eliza and our...

...motion of royal favour towards Shakspeare. Now he, in words which leave no room for doubt, exclaims— Sweet swan of Avon! what a sight it were To see thee in our waters yet appear, And make those flights upon the banks of Thames That so did take Eliza and our Jama....

...towards the end is a couplet with the epithet which has become an universal synonym for the poet — " Sweet Swan of Avon, what a sight it were To see thee in our waters yet appeare." But that which concerns us now, is, that it is in the commendatory verses published...