16 SIR WALTER RALEIGH. 



having been at the head of a plo<i to 

 kidnap James and place Lady Arabella 

 Stuart on the throne. He was tried for 

 treason, in Winchester Castle. He was 

 sent to the Tower, and for thirteen years 

 kept there. During those thirteen years, 

 his friend, William Shakespeare, was be- 

 coming the Miracle of Time the greatest 

 man ever cast by the tides of Time on 

 the shores of Life. What a world of 

 pities that for those thirteen golden years 

 to Shakespeare, Raleigh never saw one of 

 the great plays of England's King of 

 Kings, and that, in 1616, the year Ra- 

 leigh was released from the Tower to 

 find gold in America for James the First, 

 Shakespeare should die ! Well, two years 

 later, Raleigh followed him. But Shake- 

 speare died in bed. 



While in the Tower, Raleigh wrote his 

 " History of the World " ; and there he 

 spent much of his time in chemical ex- 

 periments, in the course of which he 

 sought eagerly for the philosopher's 



