feavour

As I was then sick of a feavour, I was forced to lurck some months in the mountains, and in the beginning of

The Jacobite Rebellions (1689-1746) (Bell's Scottish History Source Books.) James Pringle Thomson

The Reverend John Ward, who was vicar of Stratford, in a manuscript memorandum book written in the year 1664, asserts that “Shakespeare, Drayton and Ben Johnson had a merie meeting, and itt seems drank too hard, for Shakespeare died of a feavour there contracted.”

The Man Shakespeare Harris, Frank, 1855-1931 1909

The Reverend John Ward, who was vicar of Stratford, in a manuscript memorandum book written in the year 1664, asserts that "Shakespeare, Drayton and Ben Johnson had a merie meeting, and itt seems drank too hard, for Shakespeare died of a feavour there contracted."

The Man Shakespeare Frank Harris 1893

Hamlet thought drinking a custom more honoured in the breach than in the observance; Cassius, Shakespeare's incarnation in "Othello," confessed that he had "poor unhappy brains for drinking": tradition informs us that Shakespeare himself died of a "feavour" from drinking -- all of which confirms my opinion that Shakespeare was delicate rather than robust.

The Man Shakespeare Frank Harris 1893

According to the testimony of John Ward, the vicar, Shakespeare entertained at New Place his two friends, Michael Drayton and Ben Jonson, in this same spring of 1616, and 'had a merry meeting,' but 'itt seems drank too hard, for Shakespeare died of a feavour there contracted.'

A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles Sidney Lee 1892

My little girle Susan is fallen sicke of the meazles, we fear, or, at least, of a scarlett feavour.

Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1664 N.S. Samuel Pepys 1668

My little girle Susan is fallen sicke of the meazles, we fear, or, at least, of a scarlett feavour.

Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete Samuel Pepys 1668

My little girle Susan is fallen sicke of the meazles, we fear, or, at least, of a scarlett feavour.

Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 31: October/November 1664 Samuel Pepys 1668

My little girle Susan is fallen sicke of the meazles, we fear, or, at least, of a scarlett feavour.

The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Oct/Nov 1664 Pepys, Samuel 1664

“Othello,” confessed that he had “poor unhappy brains for drinking”: tradition informs us that Shakespeare himself died of a “feavour” from drinking ” all of which confirms my opinion that Shakespeare was delicate rather than robust.

The Man Shakespeare Harris, Frank, 1855-1931 1909