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ILLUSTRATIONS

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Queen Elizabeth going to Whitehall
through London Streets Frontispiece

At the Mermaid 13

The River Avon at Stratford 14

Birthplace of Mary Arden, Mother of Shakespeare 16

Warwickshire House of the Tudor Period 18

Old Graves in Trinity Churchyard, Stratford 20

Old Warwickshire Cottages 24

A Group of Morris Dancers 26

Garden View of Shakespeare's Birthplace, Stratford 30

Queen Elizabeth going to Whitehall by the Thames 35

Portrait of the Earl of Essex 36

Portrait of the Earl of Southampton 40

Queen Elizabeth listening to the Play 44

"Observance to a morn of May" 46

Woods near Stratford 50

Earl of Leicester receiving Queen Elizabeth
at Kenilworth 54

Portrait of Queen Elizabeth in her Later Years 58

A Dance of the Sixteenth Century 62

I.

At the Mermaid.

Thus Raleigh, thus immortal Sidney shone
(Illustrious names!) in great Eliza's days.

--Thos. Edwardes.

SHAKESPEARE'S
CHRISTMAS GIFT TO QUEEN BESS