P. 455 (1)

In The Passionate Pilgrim I have omitted the pieces already given (and with a better text), three of them in our author's Love's Labour's lost (“If love make me forsworn, how shall I swear to love ?" &c.; "Did not the heavenly rhetoric of thine eye," &c.; and " On a day-alack the day!" &c.,-see vol. ii. pp. 195, 198, 200), and two others among his Sonnets (Sonnet CXXXVIII. and Sonnet CXLIV.).

This sonnet occurs, and with very considerable variations, in Griffin's Fidessa, &c. 1596, standing as the third sonnet of that collection. Whether it was composed by Shakespeare or by Griffin has not been determined. Mr. Collier mentions having had before him an old Ms. copy of it, with "the initials W. S. at the end:" but that Ms. would seem to have been transcribed from The Passionate Pilgrim, since it agrees with it in its erroneous readings of the first and fourth lines.

So Griffin's Fidessa.-Omitted by mistake in The Pass. Pilgrim.

So Griffin's Fidessa.-The Pass. Pilgrim has “she fell to him" (wrongly,— forming an imperfect rhyme to "began to woo him”).

In the second of these lines The Pass. Pilgrim has “And as she;" an error evidently occasioned by the "And" above and below.

of the sonnet in Griffin's Fidessa is quite different.)

(The text of this part

So Steevens.-The Pass. Pilgrim has “an hour."

"Qu. 'a master,'-a scholar by profession, a master of arts; if the word, ita nude positum, was ever used in this sense. See the context." Walker's Crit. Exam. &c. vol. iii. p. 371. An unnecessary conjecture.

"XIII."

P. 460 (9) This poem is printed anonymously, with the music, in Weelkes's Madrigals, 1597; and, with the signature Ignoto, in England's Helicon, 1600.-Not without reason does Boswell ask, "Is it possible that Shakespeare could have written this strange farrago; or what is, if possible, still worse-'It was a lording's daughter' ?"

"The Pass. Pilgrim and Weelkes's Madrigals have 'Love is dying' and 'Heart's denying.' The reading of the text is found in England's Helicon, except that it has 'Love is' and 'Faith is'." MALONE.

So Weelkes's Madrigals.—The other old eds. have "With.”

So Weelkes's Madrigals.-The other old eds. have "loue."

P. 462. (13)

"the cause of all my moan :"

So Weelkes's Madrigals and England's Hel.-The Pass. Pilgrim has “ all my woe.”—“Perhaps we ought to read 'thou cause,' &c." MALONE.--Qy. though cause," &c.?

P. 462. (14)

"As well as partial fancy like :"

So a Ms. of this poem in Mr. Collier's possession.-The Pass. Pilgrim has "As well as fancy party all might."

P. 462. (15)

"And set thy person forth to sell."

So a Ms. used by Malone, and so too Mr. Collier's Ms. of this poem.-The Pass. Pilgrim has "And set her person forth to sale" (which Mr. Grant White understands to mean "Praise her person highly, as a salesman praises his wares").

So the Ms. used by Malone.-The Pass. Pilgrim has “calm."

o the Ms. used by Malone.-The Pass. Pilgrim has "There

by."

So the Ms. used by Malone.-The Pass. Pilgrim has "Lest that," which does not suit the context.

P. 463. (19)

"She will not stick to warm my ear,"

So Mr. Collier's Ms.-The Pass. Pilgrim has "She will not sticke to round me on th' ear," &c.- The Ms. used by Malone had "She will not stick to ring mine ear."

So the copy of this poem (or rather, of part of this poem) in England's Helicon, 1600.—The Pass. Pilgrim has "bears,"-wrongly see the fifth line.

P. 464. (21)

"Even so, poor bird, like thee,
None alive will pity me."

With this couplet, which is wanting in The Pass. Pilgrim, the poem ends in England's Helicon.

To be read as a quadrisyllable: see note 78 on The Merchant of Venice.

THE PHOENIX AND TURTLE.

(From the additional poems to Chester's Love's Martyr, or Rosalin's Complaint, 1601.)

LET the bird of loudest lay,
On the sole Arabian tree,

Herald sad and trumpet be,

To whose sound chaste wings obey.

But thou shrieking harbinger,

Foul precurrer of the fiend,

Augur of the fever's end,

To this troop come thou not near!

From this session interdict

Every fowl of tyrant wing,
Save the eagle, feather'd king:
Keep the obsequy so strict.

Let the priest in surplice white,
That defunctive music can,
Be the death-divining swan,
Lest the requiem lack his right.

And thou treble-dated crow,
That thy sable gender mak'st

With the breath thou giv'st and tak'st,
'Mongst our mourners shalt thou go.

Here the anthem doth commence :-
Love and constancy is dead;
Phoenix and the turtle fled

In a mutual flame from hence.

So they lov'd, as love in twain Had the essence but in one; Two distincts, division none: Number there in love was slain.

Hearts remote, yet not asunder; Distance, and no space was seen "Twixt this turtle and his queen : But in them it were a wonder.

So between them love did shine, That the turtle saw his right Flaming in the phoenix' sight; Either was the other's mine.

Property was thus appall'd, That the self was not the same; Single nature's double name Neither two nor one was call'd.

Reason, in itself confounded,
Saw division grow together,
To themselves yet either neither,
Simple were so well compounded;

That it cried, How true a twain
Seemeth this concordant one!
Love hath reason, reason none,
If what parts can so remain.

Whereupon it made this threne
To the phoenix and the dove,
Co-supremes and stars of love,
As chorus to their tragic scene.

THRENOS.

Beauty, truth, and rarity,

Grace in all simplicity,

Here enclos'd in cinders lie.