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- THE PASSIONATE PILGRIM 45
that much of it was entrusted to William Jaggard’s brother John, who printed an ample but by no means exhaustive selection from it in 1598. Barnfield’s imitative habit of mind rendered the six-lined stanza, which Shakespeare had glorified in his *Venus and Adonis*, a favourite instrument, and the internal quality of the many six-line stanzas in *The Passionate Pilgrim* justifies the theory that Barnfield was their author, at any rate of those of them that are in a serious vein.
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It may be assumed, although the indications are obscure, that despite its equivocal claims to respectful notice, Jaggard’s venture met with success. There is small doubt that the compiler of the popular anthology called *England’s Helicon*, which appeared next year, was influenced by the example of the publisher of *The Passionate Pilgrim*. The former printed four of Jaggard’s ‘Sonnets To sundry notes of Musicke’, viz. XVI, ‘On a day, alack the day’, from *Love’s Labour’s Lost*; XVII, Barnfield’s ‘My flocks feed not’; XIX, Marlowe’s lyric with the reply; XX, Barnfield’s ‘As it fell upon a day’. Although the editor of *England’s Helicon* depended in most cases on different transcripts, the coincidence of his choice and the order which he followed in introducing these four pieces to his reader can hardly be regarded as fortuitous.
No copy of a second edition of *The Passionate Pilgrim* is extant, and there is no clue to the date of its issue.¹ The poet Drummond of Hawthornden noted that he read the book in 1606, possibly in a second edition. A third edition source, a Latin quotation from Ovid’s *Fasti*, ii. 771–4, which describes Tarquin’s admiration of Lucrece’s beauty. Shakespeare’s poem of *Lucrece* no doubt suggested to Barnfield the transcription of these lines.
¹ See p. 48, *infra*.
Popularity of Jaggard’s miscellany.
The lost second edition.
The third edition.
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