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- THE PASSIONATE PILGRIM 51
no hand in the venture. The contents included, besides *Venus and Adonis* and *Lucrece*, miscalled ‘Tarquin and Lucrece’, the whole of the Poems of 1640, with its clumsy commingling of the *Sonnets*, *The Passionate Pilgrim*, *A Lover’s Complaint*, and generous extracts from the work of Heywood and others. Gildon bestowed on this part of his volume (pp. 111–256) the alternative titles of ‘His [i.e. Shakespeare’s] Miscellany Poems’ or ‘Poems on Several Occasions’. In a critical essay on Shakespeare’s poems (p. 449) he taunted Lintott’s ‘wise editor’ with the ‘absurd incoherency’ of his very accurate reprint of *The Passionate Pilgrim*. The censorious Gildon, ignorant of the existence of the original editions of *The Passionate Pilgrim*, denounced Lintott for throwing ‘into a heap without any distinction’, ‘a medley of Shakespeare’s [verses] tho’ they are on several and different subjects.’ A factitious value attached in Gildon’s eyes to the capricious order which was allotted to the contents of *The Passionate Pilgrim* in the 1640 edition of Shakespeare’s Poems, and to the separate titles which were there bestowed on the scattered items.
Gildon’s editorial procedure was followed in five succeeding reissues of Shakespeare’s Poems which were undertaken during the first three-quarters of the eighteenth century. The *Passionate Pilgrim* was published with the *Sonnets* and the usual mass of irrelevant verse, in the collection of the poems ‘revised by Dr. Sewell’, which formed a seventh volume supplementary to Pope’s edition of the plays in 1725; in a concluding seventh volume of an edition of Shakespeare’s Plays which appeared in Dublin in 16mo in 1771; in the concluding ninth volume of ‘Bell’s Edition of Shakespeare’s Plays’ (London, 1774, 12°), as well as in two independent publications: ‘Poems on several occasions by
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Later eighteenth-century reprints of the 1640 edition.
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