Reproduced from the series Bodley Head Quartos, published by John Lane The Bodley Head Ltd., London between 1922 and 1926. Ostensibly edited by Hadrian Dorrell from the papers of his friend Henry Willoughby; thought to be the work of Dorrell himself, though the name is probably fictitious. Has been ascribed to the Earl of Southampton, Matthew Roydon, and others. The present editor locates the poem at Cerne Abbas, and ascribes it to a friend of Raleigh. Contains an early allusion to Shakespeare, and is supposed to refer to him under the initials W. S. Includes bibliographical references.

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