CONTENTS. Page ILLUSTRATIONS OF A LOVER’S COMPLAINT, THE PASSIONATE PILGRIM, &C........ 1 * VENUS AND ADONIS. Vilia miretur vulgus, mihi Alavus Apollo OTID. TU THE RIGHT HONORABLE HENRY WRIOTHESLY, EARL OF SOUTHAMPTON, AND BARON OF TITCHFIELD. Right HONORABLE, I know not how I shall offend in dedicating my unpolished lines to your Lordship, nor how the world will censure me for choosing so strong a prop to support so weak a burthen: only if your honor seem but pleased, I account myself highly praised, and vow to take advantage of all idle hours till I have honored you with some graver labor. But is the first heir of my invention prove deformed, I shall be sorry it had so noble a godfather, and never after earl so barren a land, for fear it yield me still so bad a harvest. I leave it to your honorable survey, and your honor 2 to your heart's content; which I wish may always answer your own wish, and the world's hopeful expectation. Your Honor's in all duty, WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE. | Ear, plough. ? Ilonor. As a duke is now styled "your grace," so "your honor" formerly the usual mode of address to noblemen in general. а Was |