Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, Chapter 1: the Puritan writers, page 1

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When Shakespeare's Slender in “The Merry wives of Windsor” claims that his cousin Shallow is a gentleman born, and may write himself armigero, he adds proudly, “All his successors, gone before him, have done it, and all his ancestors that come after him may.” Slender really builded better than he knew; probably most of the applications at the Heralds' College in London, or at the offices of heraldic engravers in New York, are based on the principle he laid down. Its most triumphant application is that recorded by Gilbert Stuart. While he was in London the painter had a call from an Irishman who had become, through some lucky speculation, the possessor of a castle, and who appealed to Stuart to provide him

Boston, New York and Chicago. Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1903.

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