Word: aubreys
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Dates: during 1886-1886
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...time William Shakespeare had finished his career as an actor in London, and giving himself to the writing of plays, had eclipsed everybody. He was longing to acquire the competence that would allow him to retire to his native town, and was in a fair way to do it. Aubrey tells us he was in the habit of making a yearly sojourn among his old neighbors at Stratford, and we know that he was buying land there, adding to his acres almost with every visit, raising crops as an amateur farmer, and even entering a suit against one Philip Rogers...