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THE PASSIONATE PILGRIM
Faire was the morne when the faire Queen of Loue,
*Hoping to meet Adonis in that place,*
*Address her early to a certain groove,*
*Where he was wont ye savage Beast to chase.*
No. XI and B. Griffin’s *Fidessa*, 1596.
Of No. XI alone (‘Venus with Adonis sitting by her’) is the authorship determinable beyond doubt. With verbal differences, the sonnet was already included in an ample collection entitled ‘*Fidessa*. . . . by B. Griffin Gent.’, which had been published three years before, in 1596. It filled the third place in Griffin’s little array of sixty-two quatorzains. The textual variations again point to Jaggard’s dependence for his version on a private transcript. Apart from such differences as ‘the warlike god’, in *The Passionate Pilgrim*, for ‘the wanton god’ in *Fidessa*, or ‘she clasped Adonis’ for ‘she clipt Adonis’, the two texts entirely disagree in regard to ll. 7–12. Jaggard presents them thus:—
> Euen thus (quoth she) the warlike god unlac’t me,
> As if the boy should vse like louing charmes;
> Euen thus (quoth she) he seized on my lippes,
> And with her lips on his did act the seizure:
> And as she fetched breath, away he skips,
> And would not take her meaning nor her pleasure.
In Griffin’s printed volumes of 1596 the passage runs thus:—
> But he a wayward boy refusde her offer,
> And ran away, the beautious Queene neglecting:
> Showing both folly to abuse her proffer,
> And all his sex of cowardise detecting.
> Oh that I had my mistres at that bay,
> To kisse and clippe me till I ranne away.
It is clear that Jaggard did not know Griffin’s work as it was printed in Griffin’s published *Fidessa*. Jaggard’s text was probably a trial version, which Griffin distributed among private friends, but finally excluded from his collection when
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