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characters, owned the bear-garden at Bankside (where this 

 accident happened), and the sport was so popular during his time 

 that he accumulated a considerable portion of his fortune there 

 He subsequently founded Dulwich College with a part of the 

 money, so it was put to a good use, and the present generation 

 are benefitting by it. 



Shakespeare, who knew Alleyn well, no doubt frequently 

 visited the bear-garden; at any rate he makes use of the sports 

 practised there as similes or illustrations in many of his plays; 

 for instance in the second part of "King Henry VI.," act v., there 

 is the following dialogue : — 



ToBK : " Call hither to the stake my two brave beares, 



That with the very shaking of their chaines, 

 They may astonish these fell lurking curres ; 

 Bid Salisbury and Warwicke come to me. 



[Enter "Warwicke and Salisbury.] 



Clifford : " Are those thy beares ? we'll baite thy beares to death ; 

 And manacle the bear-ward in their chaines, 

 If thou dar'st bring them to the bayting-place. 



EiCHARD : " Oft have I seen a hot o'erweening curre, 



Eun, bucke, and bite, because he was withheld ; 

 "V^Tio being suffer'd with the beare's fell paw, 

 Hath clapt his taile between his legges and cry'd." 



And again in the third part of " King Henry YI.," act ii. : — 



" Or as a beare, encompass'd round with dogges ; 

 Who having pincht a few, and made them cry. 

 The rest stand all aloof e, and barke at him." 



In 1598 Paul Hentzner, tutor to a young German nobleman, 

 visited England, and in an account of his journey which he pub- 

 lished when describing London remarks : " There is still another 

 Place, built in the form of a theatre, which serves for the baiting 

 of Bulls and Bears. They are fastened behind and then worried by 

 great English Bull-dogs, but not without great Eisque to the Dogs, 

 from the Horns of the one, and the Teeth of the other ; and it 

 sometimes happens they are killed upon the spot : fresh ones are 

 immediately supplied in the Place of those that are wounded or 



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