Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: SIR THOMAS. " Why who taught thee all this?" Then turned he leisurely toward Sir Silas, and placing his hand outspreaden upon the arm of the chaplain, said unto him in a low, judicial, hollow voice, " Every word true and solemn I have heard less wise saws from between black covers." Sir Silas was indignant at this under-rating, as he appeared to think it, of the church and its ministry, and answered impatiently, with Christian freedom, " Your worship surely will not listen to this wild wizard in his brothel-pulpit " WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE. " Do I live to hear Charlecote Hall called a brothel-pulpit? Alas, then, I have lived too long " SIR SILAS. " We will try to amend that for thee." William seemed not to hear him, loudly as he spake and pointedly unto the youngster, who wiped his eyes, crying, " Commit me, sir in mercy commit me Master Ephraim O, Master Ephraim A guiltless man may feel all the pangs of the guilty Is it you who are to make out the commitment? Dispatch dispatch I am a-weary of my life. If I dared to lie, I would plead guilty." Sir Thomas. " Heyday No wonder, Master Ephraim, thy entrails are moved and wamble. Dost weep, lad ? Nay, nay; thou bearest up bravely. Silas, I now find, although the example come before me from humble life, that what my mother said was true ? 'twas upon my father's demise ?' In great grief there are few tears.'" Upon which did the youth, Willy Shaks- peare, joy himself by the memory, and repeat these short verses, not wide from the same purport ? chapter{Section 4" There are, alas, some depths of woe Too vast for tears to overflow." SIR THOMAS. " Let those who are sadly vexed in spirit mind that notion, whoever indited it, and be men. I always was; but some little griefs have pinched...