Yes, he was, which is also why there's been so much speculation about Shakespeare's Catholicity.
G. E. Schwartz
---- David Bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Wasn't he a distant cousin of Shakespeare or am I misremembering?
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> David
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> On 18 December 2017 at 21:37, Luke <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> > lonely this Christmas?
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> > On 18 December 2017 at 18:18, Jeff Harrison <[log in to unmask]>
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> >> As I in hoary winter’s night stood shivering in the snow,
> >> Surpris’d I was with sudden heat which made my heart to glow;
> >> And lifting up a fearful eye to view what fire was near,
> >> A pretty Babe all burning bright did in the air appear;
> >> Who, scorched with excessive heat, such floods of tears did shed
> >> As though his floods should quench his flames which with his tears were
> >> fed.
> >> “Alas!” quoth he, “but newly born, in fiery heats I fry,
> >> Yet none approach to warm their hearts or feel my fire but I!
> >> My faultless breast the furnace is, the fuel wounding thorns,
> >> Love is the fire, and sighs the smoke, the ashes shame and scorns;
> >> The fuel Justice layeth on, and Mercy blows the coals,
> >> The metal in this furnace wrought are men’s defiled souls,
> >> For which, as now on fire I am to work them to their good,
> >> So will I melt into a bath to wash them in my blood.”
> >> With this he vanish’d out of sight and swiftly shrunk away,
> >> And straight I called unto mind that it was Christmas day.
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