VENUS AND ADONIS, LUCRECE, AND OTHER POEMS. EDITED, WITH NOTES, BY WILLIAM J. ROLFE, LITT, D. Copyright, 1883, by HARPER & BROTHERS By this, the boy that by her side lay kill'd I. THE HISTORY OF THE POEMS. Venus and Adonis was first published in quarto form, in 1593, with the following title-page: * VENVS AND ADONIS | Vilia miretur vulgus: mihi flauus Apollo Pocula Castalia plena ministret aqua. | LONDON | Imprinted by Richard Field, and are to be sold at the signe of the white Greyhound in | Paules Church-yard. | 1593. For this title-page, as well as for much of the other information we have given concerning the early editions, we are indebted to the "Cambridge" ed. |