...Pythagoras, so the sweete wittie soule of Ovid lives in mellifluous and honey-tongued Shakspeare, witnes his Venus and Adonis, his Lucrece, his sugred sonnets among his private friends, &c."f A third tribute, and of a similar kind, was paid to the early efforts of our author in 1598,...

...Shak•peare : " As the BOU! of Euphorbus was thought to live in Pythagoras, so the sweet soul of Ovid lives in mellifluous and honey-tongued Shakspeare. Witness his Venus and Adonis, his Lucrece, his migred Sonnets among his private friends," &c. Wit's Treasury, p. 282. There is no edition of Shakspeare's...

...his ' Piers Penniless,' written the same year. mellifluous and honey-tongued Shakspeare. Witness liis "Venus and Adonis," his " Lucrece," his Sugred Sonnets among his private friends.' The rapidity with which Shakspeare poured forth his wonderful conceptions, the meteor-like flight with...

...his Wit's Treasury, 1598, ' was thought to live in Pythagoras, so the sweet, witty soul of Ovid lives in mellifluous and honey-tongued Shakspeare. Witness his Venus and Adonis, his Lucrece,' &c. Shakspeare had without doubt read the account of Venus and Adonis in the tenth book of Ovid's Metamorphoses...

...thought to Ire in Pythagoras, so the sweet, witty sod of Ovid lives in mellifluous and hoaertongued Shakspeare. Witness his 'Venus and Adonis,' his '...Lucrece,' his Sugred Sonnets among his private friends." The rapidity with which Shakspect poured forth his wooder&d conception the meteor-like flight with...

..." As the soul of Euphorbus was thought to live in Pythagoras, so the sweet witty soul of Ovid lives in mellifluous and honey-tongued Shakspeare : witness his Venus and Adonis, his Lucrece, his sugared Sonnets among his private friends." Upon the question of the continuity of the Sonnets depend...

..." As the soul of Euphorbus was thought to live in Pythagoras, so the sweet witty soul of Ovid lives in mellifluous and honey-tongued Shakspeare : witness his Venus and Adonis, his Lucrece, his sugared Sonnets among his private friends" Upon the question of the continuity of the Sonnets depend...

...Pythagoras, so the sweete wittia some of Ovid lives in mellifluous and hony-tongued Shakespeare : witnes his Venus and Adonis, his Lucrece, his sugred Sonnets among his private friends, kc."— Palladia Tamia, 1598, fo. 281, b. 3This is the poet whom Shakespeare (Son. Ixxx.) calls "a...

...Pythagoras ; so the sweete wittie soul of Ovid lives in mellifluous and hony-tongued Shakspeare; witnes his Venus and Adonis, his Lucrece, his Sugred Sonnets among his private friends," &c. And the editor adds : " It may be concluded from this that Meres was one of those friends to whom...

...as the soul of Euphorbus was thought to live in Pythagoras, so the sweet, witty soul of Ovid lives in mellifluous and honey-tongued Shakspeare. Witness...and Adonis ; his Lucrece; his sugred Sonnets among hi8 private friends.' In 1598, Shakspeare had produced fifteen or sixteen plays; yet we here find him...