BY THE

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AUTHOR OF BRAMBLETYE HOUSE,

THE TOR HILL, &c.

"Fie on ambition! Fie on myself! that have a sword, and yet am
ready to famish! These five days have I hid me in these woods, and
durst not peep out, for all the country is laid for me."

IN THREE VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

SHAKSPEARE.

LONDON:

HENRY COLBURN, NEW BURLINGTON STREET.

LONDON

PRINTED BY S. AND R. BENTLEY, DORSET STREET.

REUBEN APSLEY.

CHAPTER I.

"If I am

Traduced by ignorant tongues, which neither know

My faculties nor person, yet will be

The chronicles of my doing, let me say

'Tis but the fate of place, and the rough brake

That virtue must go through. We must not stint
Our necessary actions, in the fear

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cope malicious censurers."

SHAKSPEARE.

THE day of Reuben's departure from Goldingham Place, and of his flight to Lyme to join the Duke of Monmouth, had proved a most anxious one to his uncle. The seizure of his brass cannons, of which he presently received