...biographer and editor Nicholas Rowe printed a similar account of the "Extravagance" that forced Shakespeare "both out of his country and that way of living which he had taken up." Will had, in Rowe's account, fallen into bad company: he began to consort with youths who made a practice...

...remarkable in a penniless apprentice. ' In this kind of settlement he continu'd for some time, 'till an extravagance that he was guilty of forc'd him both out of his country and that way of living that he had taken up. . . . He had, by a misfortune common enough to young fellows, fallen into ill...