INTRODUCTION THIS miscellany appeared in 1599, with the following title: : THE PASSIONATE | PILGRIME. | By W. Shakespeare. AT LONDON. | Printed for W. Jaggard, and are to be sold by W. Leake, at the Grey-hound in Paules Churchyard. | 1599. A new edition appeared in 1612, with additions derived from Thomas Heywood, and a modified title: THE PASSIONATE PILGRIME | or | Certaine Amorous Sonnets, betweene Venus and Adonis, | newly corrected and augmented. | By W. Shakespere. | The third Edition. Whereunto is newly added two Loue-Epistles, the first from Paris to Hellen, and | Hellen's answere backe | again to Paris. In the course of the same year, Thomas Heywood complained in the dedicatory epistle prefixed to his Apology for Astus, of the 'manifest injury' done him, as well as to Shakespeare, by this surreptitious publication whereupon Jaggard printed a new title-page omitting Shakespeare's name. In Malone's copy (now in the Bodleian) the old title-page, by an inadvertence, was retained when the new was added. A third edition, still further enlarged from equally unauthentic sources, appeared in 1640. The contents even of the first edition show that the book was a miscellany, raked together by fair means or foul and floated with the great name,already, as we may judge from Meres' tribute, at the head of English letters, to which not more than five of the twenty-one pieces (viz. I, II, III, V, XVII) can certainly be ascribed. Three of the other pieces, however, though they had no right to their place, were not unworthy of it,-those by Barnfield (VIII, XXI) and by Marlowe (xx). THE PASSIONATE PILGRIM I WHEN my love swears that she is made of truth, II Two loves I have, of comfort and despair, ΤΟ i. and ii. are Shakespeare's Sonnets cxxxviii. and cxliv. with certain verbal alterations. And whether that my angel be turn'd fiend, For being both to me, both to each friend, The truth I shall not know, but live in doubt, III Did not the heavenly rhetoric of thine eye, If by me broke, what fool is not so wise IV Sweet Cytherea, sitting by a brook With young Adonis, lovely, fresh, and green, Such looks as none could look but beauty's queen. She show'd him favours to allure his eye; To win his heart, she touch'd him here and there; iii. This is Longaville's sonnet to Maria, Love's Labour's Lost, iv. 3. 60 f., also with verbal alterations. 11. Exhale, draw up (as the sun ΤΟ 5 ΤΟ draws vapour from the earth). 1. Cytherea, Venus. 5 But whether unripe years did want conceit, Then fell she on her back, fair queen, and toward : He rose and ran away; ah, fool too froward! V If love make me forsworn, how shall I swear to love? O never faith could hold, if not to beauty vow'd: prove; Those thoughts, to me like oaks, to thee like osiers bow'd. Study his bias leaves, and make his book thine eyes, s Where all those pleasures live that art can com prehend. If knowledge be the mark, to know thee shall suffice; Well learned is that tongue that well can thee commend ; All ignorant that soul that sees thee without wonder; Which is to me some praise, that I thy parts admire: 10 Thine eye Jove's lightning seems, thy voice his dreadful thunder, Which, not to anger bent, is music and sweet fire. Celestial as thou art, O do not love that wrong, To sing heaven's praise with such an earthly tongue. VI Scarce had the sun dried up the dewy morn, v. Biron's sonnet to Rosaline, Love's Labour's Lost, iv. 2. 109 f. |