MS Aubrey 8, folio 50 verso
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Creator: John Aubrey
Title: Brief Lives
Date: ca. 1679/1680
Repository: Bodleian Library, Oxford University, Oxford, UK
Call number and opening: MS. Aubrey 8, fol. 50v
Terms of use
The Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, has graciously contributed images of materials in its collections to Shakespeare Documented under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International licence. Images used within the scope of these terms should cite the Bodleian Libraries as the source. For any use outside the scope of these terms, visitors should contact Bodleian Libraries Imaging Services at imaging@bodleian.ox.ac.uk.
Document-specific information
Creator: John Aubrey
Title: Brief Lives
Date: ca. 1679/1680
Repository: Bodleian Library, Oxford University, Oxford, UK
Call number and opening: MS. Aubrey 8, fol. 50v
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Iohn Fletchr.
Invited [^]to go with a knight in to Norfolke, or Suffolke int the Plagu time 1625
stayd but to make himselfe a Suite of cloathes fell sick
of the Plague Dyed.
Iohn Ogilby
after he had built the Theater at Dublin,
He was undon at the Irish Rebellion
he was wreck’t at Sea and came to London very
poor & went on foot to Cambridge.
The more to be admired q[uia] he was not a company keeper
lived in Shoreditch, would n[o]t be debauched, & if invited to
gout: he was in paine
W. Shakespere
q[uaere] Mr Beeston who knows most of him from Mr. Lacy
he lives in Shore-ditch. neer Nort at Hoglane
within 6 dores - Norton - folgate.
q[uaere] etiam for B. Jonson.
B. Jonson.
one eye lower then tother, & biggerq[uaere] his description of a Trooper in English verse^very good [This line relates to a line about Ogilby on the other side of this leaf.]
He tooke a Catalaloge[sic] from Mr Lacy of the Yorkshiredialectword - his hint to a Tale of a Tub
for the Clownery.
Sources
Bodleian Library, William Shakespeare 1565-1964: A Catalogue of the Quartercentenary Exhibition in the Divinity School, Oxford (Oxford: Bodleian Library, 1964), 28.
John Aubrey, Brief Lives with An Apparatus for the Lives of our English Mathematical Writers, ed. Kate Bennett (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015), 619-20.
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