he cords which bound him were burnt. Yet so intense was the heat
that above 2000 men were consumed thereby.--See _Gospel of Barnabas_,
xxviii.; and Morgan, _Mahometanism Explained_, V. i. 4.

=Shadwell= (_Thomas_), the poet-laureate, was a great drunkard, and was
said to be "round as a butt, and liquored every chink" (1640-1692).

Besides, his [_Shadwell's_] goodly fabric fills the eye,
And seems designed for thoughtless majesty.

Dryden, _MacFlecknoe_ (1682).

[Asterism] Shadwell took opium, and died from taking too large a dose.
Hence Pope says:

Benlowes, propitious still to blockheads, bows;
And Shadwell nods the poppy on his brows.

_The Dunciad_, iii. 21, 22 (1728).

Benlowes was a great patron of bad poets, and many have dedicated to him
their lucubrations. Sometimes the name is shifted into "Benevolus."

=Shaf'alus and Procrus.= So Bottom, the weaver, calls Ceph[)a]lus and
Procris. (See CEPHALUS.)

_Pyramus._ Not Shafalus to Procrus was so true.

_Thisbe._ As Shafalus to Procrus; I to you.

Shakespeare, _Midsummer Night's Dream_ (1592).

=Shaftesbury= (_Anthony Ashley Cooper, earl of_), introduced by Sir W.
Scott in _Peveril of the Peak_ (time, Charles II.).

=Shafton= (_Ned_), one of the prisoners in Newgate with old Sir Hildebrand
Osbaldistone.--Sir W. Scott, _Rob Roy_ (time, George I.).

_Shafton_ (_Sir Piercie_), called "The knight of Wolverton," a
fashionable cavaliero, grandson of old Overstitch, the tailor, of
Holderness. Sir Piercie talks in the pedantic style of the Elizabethan
courtiers.--Sir W. Scott, _The Monastery_ (time, Elizabeth).

=Shah= (_The_), a famous diamond, weighing 86 carats. It was given by
Chosro[:e]s, of Persia, to the Czar of Russia. (See DIAMONDS.)

=Shakebag= (_Dick_), a highwayman with Captain Colepepper.--Sir W. Scott,
_Fortunes of Nigel_ (time, James I.).

=Shakespeare=, introduced by Sir W. Scott in the ante-rooms of Greenwich
Palace.--Sir W. Scott, _Kenilworth_ (time, Elizabeth).

[Asterism] In _Woodstock_ there is a conversation about Shakespeare.

_Shakespeare's Home._ He left London before 1613, and established
himself at Stratford-on-Avon, in Warwickshire, where he was born (1564),
and where he died (1616). In the diary of Mr. Ward, the vicar of
Stratford, is this entry: "Shakspeare, Drayton and Ben Jonson had a
merry meeting, and, it seems, drank too hard, for Shakspeare died of a
fever then contra