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- 70 SONNETS OF SHAKESPEARE
POEMS OF 1640.
the first leaf of a sheet bearing the signature A. The text begins on a leaf which is signed A₂, and headed ‘Poems by Wil. Shake-speare, Gent.’ Thenceforth the signatures are regularly marked, viz. A₂, A₃–M₄ in eights. The contents become very miscellaneous and are by many hands after leaf G (recto), on which appears Shakespeare’s last sonnet, CLIV. After an interval of four leaves, on G₅ (verso) begins *A Lovers Complaint*, which finishes on H₂ (verso), and is succeeded by Heywood’s two ‘Epistles’ from *The Passionate Pilgrim* of 1612 (H₃ recto–K₄ recto). The following leaves down to L₁ (verso) are successively occupied by Marlowe’s poem, ‘Liue with me and be my loue’, with Raleigh’s reply (in the text, not of *The Passionate Pilgrim* but of *England’s Helicon*); another [reply] of the same nature (from *England’s Helicon*); ‘Take oh take those lippes away’ (from Fletcher’s *Bloody Brother* in two stanzas, of which the first only appeared in *Measure for Measure*, iv. 1. 1–6); ‘Let the bird of lowest lay’ with the ‘Threnes’ (from Chester’s *Loves Martyr*, 1601, where it is assigned to Shakespeare); ‘Why should this a Desart be’ (from *As You Like It*, iii. 2. 133–62); Milton’s Epitaph from the Second Folio; Basse’s sonnet from the First Folio; and a previously unprinted ‘Elegie on the death of that famous Writer and Actor, Mr. William Shakespeare’. On signature L₂ (recto) is introduced a new section headed: ‘An addition of some excellent poems, to those precedent, of renowned Shakespeare, by other gentlemen.’ Sixteen separate poems follow with the following titles: ‘His Mistresse Drawne’, signed B. L.; ‘Her minde’, signed B[en] I[onson]; ‘To Ben. Johnson’, signed F[rancis] B[eaumont]; ‘His Mistris Shade’ (from Herrick’s *Hesperides*); ‘Lavinia walking in a frosty morning’; ‘A Sigh sent to his Mistresse’; ‘An Allegorical allusion of melancholy thoughts to Bees’, signed I. G.; ‘The Primrose’ (from Herrick’s *Hesperides*); ‘A Sigh’ (by Thomas Carew); ‘A Blush’; ‘Orpheus Lute’; ‘Am I dispis’d because you say’ (from Herrick’s *Hesperides*); ‘Vpon a Gentlewoman walking on the Grasse’; ‘On his Love going to Sea’ (assigned to Carew); and ‘Aske me no more where *Ioue*
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