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Sundry Notes³ were each introduced by a separate title-page, of which the imprint ran: ‘London, Printed in the year 1599.’ In the preliminary ‘Advertisement’ Lintott wrote: ‘The Remains of Mr. William Shakespeare call’d *The Passionate Pilgrime* &amp; Sonnets to Sundry Notes of Musick (at the end of this collection) came into my hands in a little stitch’d Book, printed at *London* for *W. Jaggard* in the year 1599.’ Lintott’s ‘Collection’ was reissued next year, with the addition of a second volume supplying a reprint of the original 1609 edition of Shakespeare’s *Sonnets* and *A Lover’s Complaint*. The new title-page was curiously inaccurate as to the date of the first edition of Shakespeare’s narrative poems and of *The Passionate Pilgrim*. The words ran: ‘A Collection of Poems in Two Volumes: being all The miscellanies of Mr. William Shakespeare, which were Publish’d by himself in the year 1609, and now correctly Printed from these Editions.’ There were at least two impressions of this ‘Collection in Two Volumes’. In one of these impressions *The Passionate Pilgrim* and ‘Sonnets to Sundry Notes’ bore the correct date of 1599. In another impression, the title-pages were reprinted with the date changed to 1609. There is no ground for assuming that Lintott knew of an edition, belonging to that year, of *The Passionate Pilgrim*, or of the appended ‘Sonnets to Sundry Notes’. The date was invented to agree with that of the first edition of the *Sonnets*. Gildon’s reprint of 1710. Another collection of Shakespeare’s poems followed independently in 1710. This edition formed an unauthorized ‘Seventh’ or supplementary volume to Rowe’s more or less critical edition of Shakespeare’s Plays of 1709. This supplement was undertaken by Edmund Curll, the notorious printer-publisher, with the editorial assistance of Charles Gildon. Rowe’s publisher, Jacob Tonson, had <!-- [Page 340](arke:01KG6QFYGCJ9RK4AMBWP4849T8) --> 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 G 2 Later eighteenth-century reprints of the 1640 edition. <!-- [Page 341](arke:01KG6QFYFRP75RDTQXP41Z4PGN) --> 52 Malone's restoration of the text of the original edition. # THE PASSIONATE PILGRIM

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