E. G. V. Knox

“ THE SAVING OF STRATFORD.
[It has been decided, we gather, to go on playing Shakspeare in Berlin, because Shakspeare is so closely connected with the German race.]
This was so good of you, so like your grace,
Ye on whose brows the brand of Rheims is graven,
To spare the poet of our common race
And find forgiveness for the Bard of Avon ”

“ Refine, transmute and render wholly German.
Seeing in Henry V. a Prussian King,
Tracing in Hamlet a more moody Kaiser,
You put new might into the master's wing.
He seems more wonderful to us, and wiser ”