Asbies, the chief property of Robert Arden at Wilmcote, bequeathed to Shakespeare’s mother, [7]
mortgaged to Edmund Lambert, [12]
proposal to confer on John Lambert an absolute title to the property, [26]
Shakespeare’s endeavour to recover, [195]
Ashbee, Mr. E. W., [302] n
Assimilation, literary, Shakespeare’s power of, [61] [109] seq.
Aston Cantlowe, [6]
place of the marriage of Shakespeare’s parents, [7]
‘Astrophel,’ apostrophe to Sidney in Spenser’s, [143] n 2
‘Astrophel and Stella,’ [83]
the metre of, [95] n 2
address to Cupid, [97] n
the praise of ‘blackness’ in, [119] and n [153] n 1
editions of, [428] [429]
Aubrey, John, the poet’s early biographer, on John Shakespeare’s trade, [4]
on the poet’s knowledge of Latin, [16]
on John Shakespeare’s relations with the trade of butcher, [18]
on the poet at Grendon, [31]
lines quoted by him on John Combe, [269] n
on Shakespeare’s genial disposition, [278]
value of his biography of the poet, [362]
his ignorance of any relation between Shakespeare and the Earl of Pembroke, [414] [415]
‘Aurora,’ title of Sir W. Alexander’s collection of sonnets, [438] Autobiographical features of Shakespeare’s plays, [164-7] [168] [248]
of Shakespeare’s sonnets, the question of, [100] [109] [125] [152] [160]
Autographs of the poet, [284-6]
‘Avisa,’ heroine of Willobie’s poem, [155] seq