Identifier: girlhoodofshakes00clar (find matches)
Title: The girlhood of Shakespeare's heroines in a series of tales
Year: 1881 (1880s)
Authors: Clarke, Mary Cowden, 1809-1898
Subjects: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
Publisher: New York, A.C. Armstrong
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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sharply to her father, saying:— I pray you sir^ is it your ivillTo iiiake a stale of rnp o.mong these mates V The conversation going on angrily, Bianca says, first to Katharina,then to her father:— Sister, content you in my discontent.Sir, to your 2yleasure liunihly I subscribe:My books and instruments shall be my company;On them to look, and practise: by myself?^ How the shrew is tamed into the submissive wife; how the scoldingtongue becomes schooled to duteous accents ; how the.beauteous modestyand maiden mildness, show in their demure intrigues, their clandestinaflirtations, their sly construings, with music-master and book-man, anJ I 84 KATHARINA AND BIANCA ; ill their open unmasking, and native insolence of self-assertion, the morient the marriage-tie is knit, and the husband secured ; are all set forthby one to whom the author of this poor story says:— Well, you are come to me in liappy time,The rather for I have some sport in hand.Wherein your cunning can assist rae much.
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TALE Via OPHELIA; THE ROSE OF ELSINORE. O Rose of May !Dear maid, kind sister, sweet Ophelia! HanUet, The babe lay on the nurses knee. Could any impression have beenreceived through those wide-stretched eyes, that stared as wonderinglyas if they were in fact beholding amazed the new existence upon whichthey had so lately opened, the child would have seen that it lay in aspacious apartment, furnished with all the tokens of wealth and magnifi-cence, which those ruder ages could command. There were thick hang-ings of costly stuff to exclude the keen outer air and chill mists of thatnorth climate. The furniture of the room was constructed of the rarerkind of woods, and fashioned with the utmost skill and taste in design thenattained. The dogs that sustained the fir clumps blazing on the hearth,were of classical form and device ; and the andirons on either side, wereof a no less precious material than silver. The sconces round the apart-ment were of the same metal; while the spoon, cup, an

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