...the defeat and the disgrace, Shakspere composed these lines in reference to the villages around : ' Piping Pebworth, Dancing Marston Haunted Hillborough,...Papist Wixford, Beggarly Broom, and Drunken Bidford. ' Nicknames and rhymes of this sort are of course by no means uncommon. Hillborough, Grafton, Exhall,...

...VILLAGES. — A rhyme assigned, but with no foundation, to Shakespeare, describes him as having drunk at " Piping Pebworth, Dancing Marston, Haunted Hillborough,...Papist Wixford, Beggarly Broom and Drunken Bidford." Some cursory notice of these villages, associated, however unjustly, with the name of Shakespeare,...

...no foundation, to Shakespeare, describes him as having drunk at " Piping Pebworth, Dancing Mat-stem, Haunted Hillborough, Hungry Grafton, Dodging Exhall,...Papist Wixford, Beggarly Broom and Drunken Bidford." Some cursory notice of these villages, associated, however unjustly, with the name of Shakespeare,...

...the tree, the story and the verses were invented and supplied by Jordan the wheelwright, to Malone. Piping Pebworth, Dancing Marston, Haunted Hillborough,...Papist Wixford, Beggarly Broom, and Drunken Bidford. Bidford challenged Stratford, and as Jordan explained, the Poet became " so intolerably intoxicated...

...where they are treasured in order that the lines may be read by the questioning stranger. They are: " Piping Pebworth, Dancing Marston, Haunted Hillborough,...Papist Wixford, Beggarly Broom, and Drunken Bidford." Piping Pebworth, dancing Marston, and dodging Exhall, probably have reference to something connected...

...where they are treasured in order that the lines may be read by the questioning stranger. They are: " Piping Pebworth, Dancing Marston, Haunted Hillborough,...Papist Wixford, Beggarly Broom, and Drunken Bidford." Piping Pebworth, dancing Marston, and dodging Exhall, probably have reference to something connected...

...returning to the charge, but Shakespeare said he had had enough, the sequel to it all being the epigram : " I have drunk with "Piping Pebworth, Dancing Marston,...Papist Wixford Beggarly Broom, and Drunken Bidford." It is a well-known tradition that the crab-tree when cut down served to supply mementos of Shakespeare...

...Warwickshire villages which Shakespeare is said to have composed — possibly in this very field : " Piping Pebworth, dancing Marston, Haunted Hillborough,...Papist Wixford, Beggarly Broom and drunken Bidford." Bidford is not drunken now; it is only sleepy: a long steep street, with, at the top, the church and...

...scandalous story of the poet's youth, for which there is not much evidence. A certain rhyme tells of : " Piping Pebworth, Dancing Marston, Haunted Hillborough, Hungry Grafton, Dodging Exhall, Papist Wixford, Begging Brown and Drunken Bidford." The poet with some boon companions is said to have had a drinking...

...(ascribed to Shakespeare) and exercise his ingenuity in determining the fitness of the epithets : — " Piping Pebworth, Dancing Marston, Haunted Hillborough,...Papist Wixford, Beggarly Broom, and Drunken Bidford." It was in the Falcon Inn at Bidford (still extant, though no longer an inn) that Shakespeare is reported...