PS.—I had embodied most of these facts in the preface to my edition of “Shakespeare’s Sonnets,” 1904 (De La More Press) and in my articles in the “Athenæum.”
FOOTNOTES:
[31] Greene’s “Groatsworth of Wit,” 1592.
[32] See my articles in the “Athenæum,” “The Metrical Psalms of the Court of Venus,” 24th June 1899, and “The Authorship of the New Court of Venus,” 1st July 1899.
[33] Sonnet xx, 2.
[34] See my article, “Athenæum,” March 1898, “The Date of the Sonnets.”
[35] The Wriothesley motto was “Ung par tout, tout par ung.”
[36] See my “Date of Shakespeare’s Sonnets,” “Athenæum,” 19th and 26th March 1898.
[37] It is curious that the allegorical “second intention” in the poem should have been applied by Thomas Edwards, so early as 1595, to the poet himself.
[38] The plague began on 20th October 1592 and ran on through 1593.
[39] See my article, “The First Official Record of Shakespeare’s Name,” “Shakespeare Jahr-Buch,” 1895, Berlin.
[40] He was afterwards ennobled as Lord Harvey of Kidbrooke, and Baron de Rosse in Ireland.
[41] It has been accepted by Dr. Brandl and published in his Introduction to his translation into German of Shakespeare’s Sonnets, 1913.