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Again, the creator of Falstaff and Shallow has, with indecent assiduity, been taken tot he bosom of those (as the Book of Common Prayer felicitously puts it) set in authority over us. Politicians quote him, Bishops bring him unctuously into their sermons; his words ring out unsuitably in boardrooms, and echo through the stricken Groves of Academe. Poor Shakespeare! Polonius has been taken as the true style of his satirical creator. Next to showing the founder of the Christian religion round the Vatican, I should most like to be appointed Shakespeare's conducting-officer on the occasion of his return to earth to attend his own quatercenenary celebrations. What would he not make of the municipal ceremonies, with Worshipful Mayors in their chains of office and robes, and Lady Mayoresses similarly accoutred beside them? What of the State banquets, cigar-smoke wreathing upwards and brandy seeping downwards - "Your Royal Highness, Your Grace, Your Excellencies, My Lords, Ladies and Gentleman, I give you the toast of our famed national poet and patriot, the greatest Englishman of them all, William Shakespeare!"? Amidst the hiccoughed "hear! hears!", the diners lurch to their feet, tiaras flashing, orders and decorations gleaming. Only my charge remains seated, his face wearing an air of abstraction. Something about the speaker has reminded him, perhaps, of one of his own favourite creations: I do remember him in Clement's Inn like a man made after supper of [[end second column]] [[end first page]] [[start second page]] [[start first column]] a cheese-paring; when a' was naked, he was, for all the world, like a forked radish, with a head fantasically carved upon it with a knife; a' was so forlorn that his dimensions to any thick sight were invisible; a' was the very genius of famine, yet lecherous as a monkey, and the whores called him mandrake. Imagine, too, accompanying Shakespeare on a visit to Stratford-on-Avon. Ah! that would be something. Ann Hathaway's Cottage! That termagant! one hears him expostulating, to the scandal of guides and visitors alike. Why, she never had a cottage, or a bed either, until I bequeathed her my second-best one. Altogether, the presence of the Bard himself in this, the most sacred and most bogus of the shrines maintained in his honour, could not but be highly diverting. Then, whenever the round of ceremonies palled, there would be the libraries. Heaven knows how many billions and billions of words, mostly nonsensical, have been written on the subject of Shakespeare and his plays, including the not inconsiderable number dedicated to the proposition that he was Bacon. How could he fail to find inexhaustible entertainment in turning over the pages of these bizarre volumes. It used to be the fashion half a century ago, whenever two or more were gathered together to the greater glory of Eng. Lit., to dilate upon the course of Shakespeare's life, from the youthful enchantment of the comedies, through the maturity of the histories, to the dark night of the soul in the tragedies, moving thence into a serene and peaceful last phase culminating in The Tempest. 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