THE PASSIONATE PILGRIM

Summary

INTRODUCTION

The Passionate Pilgrim was first printed in 1599, the title being as follows: “THE ∣ PASSIONATE ∣ PILGRIME. ∣ By W. Shakespeare. ∣ AT LONDON ∣ Printed for W. Jaggard, and are ∣ to be sold by W. Leake, at the Grey- ∣ hound in Paules Churchyard ∣ 1599. ∣.”

In the middle of sheet C is a second title: “SONNETS ∣ To sundry notes of Musicke.” The volume was a collection of poems made by the unscrupulous piratical publisher William Jaggard; it contained some genuine sonnets and verses by Shakespeare, with others by Marlowe, Richard Barnfield, Griffin, and unknown writers. In 1612 the Pilgrim was republished, with a fuller title: THE ∣ PASSIONATE ∣ PILGRIME. ∣ or Certaine Amoroits Sonnets, ∣ betweene Venus and Adonis, ∣ newly corrected and aug-mented. By W. Shakespere ∣ The third Edition. Whereunto is newly ad ∣ ded two Loue-Epistles, the first ∣ from Paris to Hellen, and ∣ Hellens answere backe ∣ againe to Paris. ∣ Printed by W. Jaggard. ∣ 1612.

This edition, it will be noticed, is described as the “third;” but no other between 1599 and 1612 is extant.