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.
-Lover's Complaint.

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.
This day hath made

Much work for tears in many an English mother,
Whose sons lie scattered on the bleeding ground.

-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,
It were unmannerly to take you out

And not to kiss you. A health, gentlemen,
Let it go round!

-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
As in a soul remembering my good friends.

-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,
And entertain a cheerful disposition.

-Richard II.

1618. The execution of Sir Walter Raleigh, who founded,
in 1603, the famous Literary Club which met at the
Mermaid Tavern.

The painting by John Faed of "Shakespeare and his
Friends" is in the Corcoran Art Gallery in Washington.

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.

Other Birthdays in October.

When yellow leaves are none or few do hang
Upon those boughs which shake against the cold
Bare ruin'd choirs where late the sweet birds sang.
-Sonnet LXXIII.

November

Religion. Morals.

NOVEMBER 1.

My lord, 'tis but a base ignoble mind
That mounts no higher than a bird can soar.

-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
And mine a sad one.

All-Souls Day.

-Merchant of Venice.