Shakespeare's
Christmas Gift To
Queen Bess
In the year 1596

By
Anna Benneson McMahan


                                Chicago
                          A.C. McClurg & Co.

                                MCMVII
                      Published October 12, 1907

                          The Lakeside Press
                     R.R. DONNELLEY & SONS COMPANY
                                CHICAGO


                            822.33 HN8 1907
                        McMahan, Anna (Benneson)
                      Shakespeare's Christmas gift


                           To my sister Lina
                              in memory of
                   the Christmases of our childhood.



                    "All, though feigned, is true."


                               CONTENTS
Page

11
    I   At the Mermaid
33
     II   At the Queen's Palace
65
    III   A Christmas Carol of the Olden Time
                            
ILLUSTRATIONS
Page

Frontispiece
    Queen Elizabeth going to Whitehall through London Streets
13
    At the Mermaid
14
    The River Avon at Stratford
16
    Birthplace of Mary Arden, Mother of Shakespeare
18
    Warwickshire House of the Tudor Period
20
    Old Graves in Trinity Churchyard, Stratford
24
    Old Warwickshire Cottages
26
    A Group of Morris Dancers
30
    Garden View of Shakespeare's Birthplace, Stratford
35
    Queen Elizabeth going to Whitehall by the Thames
36
    Portrait of the Earl of Essex
40
    Portrait of the Earl of Southampton
44
    Queen Elizabeth listening to the Play
46
    "Observance to a morn of May"
50
    Woods near Stratford
54
    Earl of Leicester receiving Queen Elizabeth at Kenilworth
58
    Portrait of Queen Elizabeth in her Later Years
62
    A Dance of the Sixteenth Century


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

                           --Thos. Edwardes.
The numberless diamond-shaped window panes of the Mermaid Tavern aretwinkling like so many stars in the chill December air of London. It isthe last meeting of the Mermaid Club for the year 1596, and not a memberis absent. As the                        
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