Excerpt from The Works of William Shakespeare, Vol. 11: Merry Wives of Windsor; Troilus and Cressida An old tradition identifies Justice Shallow with Shake speare's old enemy, Sir Thomas Lucy (of the deer-poach ing story); Lucy died in July, 1600, and it is held by some that the poet would not have waited till his butt was in the grave before he aimed his shafts at him. At the same time it is noteworthy that the dozen white luces is only found in the Folio, not in the Quarto edi tions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.