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...family were in the country in the summer of 1825, when he was staying at my house in Pall Mall East. A friend or two had met him at dinner, and I had walked part of the way home with one of them. When I returned, I tapped at his chamber-door to bid him good night. He was sitting at the open window, habited as a prize-fighter when he enters the ring. "You will take cold,"...

...family, his townsmen, with delight— (Whom to the task their English kin invite)— To the fair fane he served so well of yore, His name, in two worlds honored, thus restore, This chapel renovate, this tablet place, In this, the year of man's recovered Grace, 1855. III I missed most of the other memorable things in the church that night, but I saw fleetingly some of the...

...family with disastrous consequences. [Described image] Figure 1 Title page of the 1623 quarto version of The Duchess of Malfi. Photo: Lebrecht Authors. The Duchess of Malfi was first performed in 1613 or 1614 by the King’s Men, the acting company to which Shakespeare belonged. The play was not printed until around ten years later in 1623, in quarto, a smaller and less...