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- 8 THE PASSIONATE PILGRIM
common six-line stanza which Shakespeare employed in his
Venus and Adonis \ two are in seven-syllabled riming
couplets j one is in four-lined stanzas alternately rimed ;
and three are in less regular metres, which were specially
adapted for musical accompaniment.
Internal and external evidence alike confute the assertion
of the title-page that all the contents of the volume were by
Shakespeare. No more than five poems can be ascribed with
confidence to his pen. Of the remaining fifteen, five were
assigned without controversy to other hands in Shakespeare's
lifetime J two were published elsewhere anonymously j and
eight, although of uncertain authorship, lack all signs of
Shakespeare's workmanship. A study of the facts attending
the volume's publication shows, moreover, that it was not
designed by Shakespeare, and that in its production he had
no hand.
William T^he Passionate Pilgrim owed its origin to the speculative
jaggaid.
boldness
of the publisher,
William
Jaggard,
who,
according
to
the
title-page,
caused the
book
to
be
printed. Jaggarddeserves respectful
mention
by
the
student of Shakespeare
in virtue of the
prominent
part
he took
in
the publication
of
the
First
Folio Edition of Shakespeare's Plays in
1^23.
He
was
at
the
head
of the
syndicate
of stationers
who
defrayed
the
cost
of that
noble undertaking, and
at his press the great
volume
was
printed.
The
enterprise of the
First
Folio
was
the closing
episode
in
Jaggard's career.
It
belonged
to
the
zenith of his
prosperity.
He
died
at
the
moment
that
the
work
was
completed.'
The
Passionate Pilgrim was
a
somewhat
insolent tribute paid by Jaggard
to Shakespeare's reputation
* Mr. William Jaggard, of Liverpool, who is engaged on a full biography
of his namesake, kindly informs me that the Elizabethan publisher's will was
dated March 18, i6'i3, and proved on November 17 following.
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