1876. CONTENTS: Tancred And Gismunda The Wounds Of Civil War Mucedorus The Two Angry Women Of Abington Look About You EDITION The Tragedie of Tancred and Gismund.

THE TWO ANGRY WOMEN OF ABINGTON.

The Pleasant Historie of the two angrie women of Abington.

"The Two Angry Women of Abington" is thus noticed by the late Charles Lamb: "The pleasant comedy from which these extracts are taken is contemporary with some of the earliest of Shakespeare's, and is no whit inferior to either the 'Comedy of Errors' or the 'Taming of the Shrew,' for instance.

THE PLEASANT COMEDY OF THE TWO ANGRY WOMEN OF ABINGTON.

I do rejoice that what I thought to do, Ere I begin, I find already done: Why, this will please your friends at Abington.

She left one child, a daughter, who was married to Thomas Nash, Esq; and afterwards to Sir John Bernard, of Abington, but deceased likewise without issue.

The next public advocate was Benjamin Lay[A], who lived at Abington, at the distance of twelve or fourteen miles from Philadelphia.

HENRY R. PEIRCE, of Abington Republican.

He told the footman to watch for Counsellor Thavies and Counsellor Beller, who were coming; and, with another yawn, he laid his cocked hat on his knees, closed his eyes, leaned back in his corner, wrapped his mantle closer about him, and began to think of pretty Mrs. Abington.

Jobe Dean and Gus Abington who came to Trenton from their home near La Grange, Tennessee were responsible for the popularity of these sports in Phillips County and it was they who promoted the most spectacular of these sporting events and in which large sums of money were wagered on the horses and the game cocks.

Abington it was who seemed the very incarnation of aristocracy, and made the audience forget that, high as she stood upon the stage, she had once been almost in the gutter.

[Footnote A: Mrs. Abington, one of the most graceful and spirited actresses of the eighteenth century, was born in 1731, shortly after the death of Oldfield.

ABINGTON, Mrs., her jelly, ii. 349; Johnson at her benefit, ii. 321, 324, 330; She Stoops to Conquer, ii. 208, n. 5.

392; Doctors' Commons, i. 462, n. 1; Dover Street, Literary Club met at Baxter's and Le Telier's, i. 479; Downing Street, Boswell's lodgings, i. 422; Lord North's residence, ii. 331; Drury Lane Theatre, Abington's, Mrs., benefit, ii. 324; Beggar's Opera refused, iii. 321, n. 3; Boswell lows like a cow, v. 396; Comus acted, i. 227; Davies's benefit, iii. 249; Earl of Essex, iv.

REYNOLDS, Sir Joshua, Abington's, Mrs., benefit, ii. 324; abused in a newspaper, iv. 29; Academy, influence in the, iv. 219, n. 4; amusement is the great end of all employments, ii. 234; a key to character, iv.

Other auction blocks were at Abington and Bristol, Virginia.

Ch. 2.14 North Abington.

'I would rather,' cried Hazlitt, 'have seen Mrs. Abington's Millamant than any Rosalind that ever appeared on the stage.'

Hazlitt never saw Mrs. Abington's Millamant.

[Illustration: SAVAGE'S PICTURE OF THE WASHINGTON FAMILY] When acting as chain-bearer in 1785, while Washington was surveying a tract of land, William fell and broke his knee-pan, "which put a stop to my surveying; and with much difficulty I was able to get him to Abington, being obliged to get a sled to carry him on, as he could neither walk, stand or ride."

After this, by Abington law, he drew up examinations against them, admitting their enemies the rebels as witnesses in the process, and publickly favouring all who came forwards to speak evil of them.

The next public advocate was Benjamin Lay[A], who lived at Abington, at the distance of twelve or fourteen miles from Philadelphia.