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Mr. J. C. STOBART and Miss MARY SOMERVILLE : 'The England that Shakespeare Knew— VII, Soldiers, Sailors and Explorers '

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"EVERYBODY who has read Falstaff's vivid description of his company of recruits, in Henry IV, Part I, will realize that an Elizabethan army formed a mixture very heterogeneous and not always particularly warlike ; and the navy, in the days of the press-gang, contained elements equally strange. This afternoon Mr. Stobart and Miss Somerville will describe the soldiers and sailors, volunteer and pressed, and the travellers and explorers who filled England with their monstrous stories in Shakespeare's day.

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