{"id":"01KG6S6S9QZZ54ZN99BAJN5JGX","cid":"bafkreifrvv4lppy3uz7owthox7o6phdihtrryti5gat3mvc6zrm2gjiw7i","type":"chunk","properties":{"end_line":10100,"extracted_at":"2026-01-30T06:24:48.293Z","extracted_by":"structure-extraction-lambda","label":"Chunk 15","source_file":"01KG6S2X2EBB305ENM00G16GWA","start_line":10078,"text":"The second and substantive portion of the volume follows immediately. It begins with a second title-page, identical at all points with the first, save for the omission of the date, 1640, in the last line. This title is printed on\n\n¹ The first three couplets are respectively Jonson’s lines 17, 18, 47, 48, and 3, 4.\n\nPOEMS OF 1640.\nThe supplementary opening pages.\nThe substantive portion of the book.\n\n<!-- [Page 481](arke:01KG6QHPYRBKE6ZAP5SXV9H5HN) -->\n70 SONNETS OF SHAKESPEARE\nPOEMS OF 1640.\n\nthe first leaf of a sheet bearing the signature A. The text begins on a leaf which is signed A₂, and headed ‘Poems by Wil. Shake-speare, Gent.’ Thenceforth the signatures are regularly marked, viz. A₂, A₃–M₄ in eights. The contents become very miscellaneous and are by many hands after leaf G (recto), on which appears Shakespeare’s last sonnet, CLIV. After an interval of four leaves, on G₅ (verso) begins *A Lovers Complaint*, which finishes on H₂ (verso), and is succeeded by Heywood’s two ‘Epistles’ from *The Passionate Pilgrim* of 1612 (H₃ recto–K₄ recto). The following leaves down to L₁ (verso) are successively occupied by Marlowe’s poem, ‘Liue with me and be my loue’, with Raleigh’s reply (in the text, not of *The Passionate Pilgrim* but of *England’s Helicon*); another [reply] of the same nature (from *England’s Helicon*); ‘Take oh take those lippes away’ (from Fletcher’s *Bloody Brother* in two stanzas, of which the first only appeared in *Measure for Measure*, iv. 1. 1–6); ‘Let the bird of lowest lay’ with the ‘Threnes’ (from Chester’s *Loves Martyr*, 1601, where it is assigned to Shakespeare); ‘Why should this a Desart be’ (from *As You Like It*, iii. 2. 133–62); Milton’s Epitaph from the Second Folio; Basse’s sonnet from the First Folio; and a previously unprinted ‘Elegie on the death of that famous Writer and Actor, Mr. William Shakespeare’. On signature L₂ (recto) is introduced a new section headed: ‘An addition of some excellent poems, to those precedent, of renowned Shakespeare, by other gentlemen.’ Sixteen separate poems follow with the following titles: ‘His Mistresse Drawne’, signed B. L.; ‘Her minde’, signed B[en] I[onson]; ‘To Ben. Johnson’, signed F[rancis] B[eaumont]; ‘His Mistris Shade’ (from Herrick’s *Hesperides*); ‘Lavinia walking in a frosty morning’; ‘A Sigh sent to his Mistresse’; ‘An Allegorical allusion of melancholy thoughts to Bees’, signed I. G.; ‘The Primrose’ (from Herrick’s *Hesperides*); ‘A Sigh’ (by Thomas Carew); ‘A Blush’; ‘Orpheus Lute’; ‘Am I dispis’d because you say’ (from Herrick’s *Hesperides*); ‘Vpon a Gentlewoman walking on the Grasse’; ‘On his Love going to Sea’ (assigned to Carew); and ‘Aske me no more where *Ioue*\n\n<!-- [Page 482](arke:01KG6QHPHBEGAM4SYX9B492QS7) -->\nSONNETS OF SHAKESPEARE 71\n\nbestovves’ (by Carew). A typed facsimile of the 1640 volume was issued by Alfred Russell Smith in 1885.\n\nThe volume is comparatively common. The earliest mention of its sale by auction was in 1683, but the price it fetched is unknown. It sold for a shilling at Dr. Francis Bernard’s sale in 1688. Just a century later a copy fetched 9s. at Thomas Pearson’s sale. The highest price it has yet reached at public auction is £106, which was realized at the Turner sale in June, 1888. Since that date a dozen copies, in very varying condition, have been publicly sold at lower prices. Copies are in the following public libraries in England: The British Museum, two copies (one in Grenville collection, measuring 5¾″ × 3¾″, and one, C. 39. a. 40, without portrait); Bodleian Library, Oxford, Malone collection; Trinity College, Cambridge, Capell collection, measuring 5½″ × 3¾″; the Shakespeare Memorial Library, Birmingham; and the Shakespeare Memorial Library, Stratford-on-Avon.\n\nIn America the public libraries possessing copies include: New York Public Library (Lenox collection), Boston Public Library (Barton collection).\n","title":"Chunk 15"},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KG6S4GWST5P4AR5FHFSAMC3Y","peer_type":"chapter","predicate":"in"},{"peer":"01KG6S2X2EBB305ENM00G16GWA","peer_type":"file","predicate":"extractedFrom"},{"peer":"01KG6NWQ2H2K4PGG7H4ZHYCZ3Y","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"},{"peer":"01KG6S6S9QKDQXRR8Q0VFEPHAP","peer_type":"chunk","predicate":"prev"},{"peer":"01KG6S6S9YSWFD1MSGS29633ME","peer_type":"chunk","predicate":"next"}],"ver":2,"created_at":"2026-01-30T06:24:49.463Z","ts":"2026-01-30T06:24:59.519Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFF0H3YRP9ZSM033AM0QJ47H"}}