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Conjectures
THE historians "suppose" that Shakespeare attended the Free School in Stratford from the time he was seven years old till he was thirteen. There is no evidence in existence that he ever went to school at all.
The historians "infer" that he got his Latin in that school—the school which they "suppose" he attended.
They "suppose" his father's declining fortunes made it necessary for him to leave the school they supposed he at tended, and get to work and help support his parents and their ten children. But there is no evidence that he ever
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