owed

A. W. von Schlegel in his famous 'Lectures on Dra-

matic Art' ^) maintains that 'Shakespeare owed almost

nothing to his predecessors, while on the other hand

Loaned out on mortgages. But when he died

He owed two thousand dollars at the bank.

Where did the money go? Why, for ten years

poets, Spenser was a scholar familiar with the best in ancient and modern

literature. As to Spenser's specific indebtedness, though he owed much in

incident and diction to Chaucer's version of the _Romance of the Rose_ and

actually written for one of John of Gaunt's family. This probability is a

very interesting one, when we consider how much Chaucer owed to John of

Gaunt's favour and protection.

I owed thousands and much more.

I did believe that I did nothing owe,

and the poet-prophet of Woman's Emancipation. Many a woman has

directly owed the lengthened, happier, usefuller life that became

hers from 1910-1911-1912 onwards to the Suffrage movement for the

Fell on Thee coming to take thine own,

And we gave the Cross, when we owed the Throne--

schools in the vicinity. But it was to his father and to his own reading

that he owed the more important part of his education; and by the time

that he had reached manhood he had a good knowledge of English, a