Where a coxcomb will be broke
Ere a good word can be spoke:
But the anger ends all here,
Drench'd in ale, or drown'd in beer.'
Morning comes, and Stratford hears only the quiet steps of its native population."
There are many allusions, literal and figurative, to these fairs in Shakespeare's plays, a few of which may be cited here as specimens.
In Love's Labour's Lost, besides the one quoted above (page 199), we find the following simile in Biron's eulogy of Rosaline (iv. 3. 235):—
"Of all complexions the cull'd soverignty
Do meet, as at a fair, in her fair cheek."