OCTOBER 23. Welcome, gentlemen! ladies that have their toes unplagued with corns will have a bout with me. -Romeo & Juliet. Pope changed the word toes in above lines to feet on account of the indelicacy of the word toes! OCTOBER 24. Do as adversaries do in law Strive mightly, but eat and drink as friends. -Taming of the Shrew. 1852. Death of Daniel Webster. On the tip of his subduing tongue, All kinds of arguments and questions deep. OCTOBER 25. Sweet recreation barr'd, what doth ensue But moody and dull melancholy. 1400. Death of Chaucer. 1415. 1854. Battle of Agencourt. -Comedy of Errors. Then shall he strip his sleeve, and show his scars The Charge of the Light Brigade. Much work for tears in many an English mother, -King John. Seeking the bubble reputation even in the cannon's mouth. -As You Like It. OCTOBER 26. By heaven she is a dainty one! Sweetheart, And not to kiss you. A health, gentlemen, -Henry VIII. The first meeting of Henry VIII and Anne Bulleyn has been painted oftener than any historical scene except the "Hubert and Arthur." OCTOBER 27. I count myself in nothing else so happy -Richard II. 1858. Birthday of Theodore Roosevelt. OCTOBER 28. A good traveller is something at the latter end of a dinner. -All's Well That Ends Well. 1886. Dedication of the statue of Liberty presented to the United States by France. OCTOBER 29. Lay aside life-harming heaviness, -Richard II. 1618. The execution of Sir Walter Raleigh, who founded, The painting by John Faed of "Shakespeare and his OCTOBER 30. He is a very valiant trencher-man; he hath an excellent stomach. -Much Ado About Nothing. 1554. Birthday of Sir Philip Sidney who died when Shakespeare was a boy. Sidney said in defense of the English language: "For the uttering sweetly and properly the conceit of the mind, which is the end of speech, that hath it equally with any other tongue in the world." And by his light Did all the chivalry of England move To do brave acts. -II Henry IV. OCTOBER 31. And to you all good health! -Henry VIII. 1898. She ap Death of Heleh Faucit (Lady Martin). peared as Juliet when 13 years old and when 69 played Beatrice at the opening of the Memorial Theatre. The marble pulpit in Shakespeare's church is in her memory. When yellow leaves are none or few do hang November Religion. Morals. NOVEMBER 1. My lord, 'tis but a base ignoble mind -II Henry VI. "Shakespeare through all his images of life in action, shows a spirit that has caused his works to be called rightly a Lay Bible. Three principles lie at the heart of all his teachings:Love God, Love Your Neighbor, Do Your Work." -Henry Morley. NOVEMBER 2. There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will. -Hamlet. 1833. Birthday of Horace Howard Furness whose "New Variorum Shakespeare" is the greatest contribution to the study made by an American. 1837. John MacCullough born. A stage where every man must play his part All-Souls Day. -Merchant of Venice. |