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Illuminating the Lives of the Earls of Southampton (1505-1667)
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Creator: William Shakespeare
Title: Venus and Adonis
Date: London : Imprinted by Richard Field, 1593
Repository: Bodleian Library, Oxford University, Oxford, UK
Call number and opening: Arch. G. e.31 (2), title page & sig. A2r
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| 1593 Venus and Adonis, First Edition Dedicated to Henry Wriothesley 3EOS (1573-1624) Shakespeare Documented/Contributed by the Bodleian Library/Written by Adam G. Hooks Terms of use |
| 1594 Venus and Adonis, Second Edition Dedicated to Henry Wriothesley 3EOS (1573-1624) Shakespeare Documented/Contributed by the British Library/Written by Erin A. McCarthy Terms of use |
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| 1599 Venus and Adonis, Six Edition Dedicated to Henry Wriothesley 3EOS (1573-1624) Shakespeare Documented/Contributed by the Folger Shakespeare Library/Written by Heather Wolfe Terms of use |
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Lucrece/1594/First Edition
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Creator: William Shakespeare
Title: Lucrece.
Date: Printed by Richard Field, for Iohn Harrison, and are to be sold at the signe of the white Greyhound in Paules Churh-yard [sic], 1594.
Repository: Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C.
Call number and opening: STC 22345 copy 1, title page & sig. A2r ,
STC 22345 copy 1, signature A2 recto
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Shakespeare’s Lucrece was first printed in 1594, fulfilling his promise to the earl of Southampton in the 1593 dedication to Venus and Adonis of “some grauer labour.” In the dedicatory epistle to Lucrece, which was likewise addressed to Southampton, Shakespeare writes of the “warrant I haue of your Honourable disposition,” which may imply a connection to, or even a reward of some sort from, the young earl. However there is no other evidence to indicate such a connection.
The copy shown here is held at the Folger Shakespeare Library, and is one of nine known to exist according to the English Short Title Catalogue.
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Creator: William Shakespeare
Title: Lucrece.
Date: London : Printed by Richard Field, for Iohn Harrison, and are to be sold at the signe of the white Greyhound in Paules Churh-yard [sic], 1594.
Repository: Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC, USA
Call number and opening: STC 22345 copy 1, title page & sig. A2r., STC 22345 copy 1, signature A2 recto
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Hampton, Christopher, Two sermons preached before the King's most excellent Majesty, (London: 1609) <http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100037201935.0x000001>
TO THE PERFECTION OF HONOVR, My Lord HENRY, EARLE of South-hampton.WHilst other men study your Titles (Honourable Lord) I doe your Honours; and finde it a nearer way to giue actions, then words: for the talking man commonly goes about, and meetes the iustice at his errours end, not to be beleeu'd. Yet, if in modest actions, the circumstances of singularitie, and profession hurt not; it is true, that I made these Compositions solely for your Lordship, and doe here professe it. By which time, I haue done all that I had in purpose, and returne to my silence:Where you are most honor'd byAlfonso Ferrabosco.
Lessons for 1.2. and 3. viols./1609
Dedicated to Henry Wriothesley 3EOS (1573-1624)
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Title: Lessons for 1. 2. and 3. Viols,etc.
Author: Alfonso Ferrabosco, approximately 1575-1628.
Subjects: Dewey: 780
Publication Details: London: Thomas Snodham, for Iohn Brovvne, and are to be sould at his shop in Saint Dunstanes Church-yard in Fleetstreet, 1609.
Identifier: System number : 004334618
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Shelfmark(s): Music Collections K.8.h.1.
UIN: BLL01004334618
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PREFATORY MATERIAL
TITLE PAGE
[illustration]
COR∴ ✚ MVSICA ✚ LAETIFICAT ✚
LESSONS FOR 1. 2. and 3. Viols. BY Alfonso Ferrabosco.
LONDON: Printed by THOMAS SNODHAM, for IOHN BROVVNE, and are to be sould at his shop in Saint Dunstones Church-yard in Fleetstreet.
1609.
DEDICATION
TO THE PERFECTION OF HONOVR, My Lord HENRY, EARLE of South-hampton.
WHilst other men study your Titles (Honourable Lord) I doe your Honours; and finde it a nearer way to giue actions, then words: for the talking man commonly goes about, and meetes the iustice at his errours end, not to be beleeu'd. Yet, if in modest actions, the circumstances of singularitie, and profession hurt not; it is true, that I made these Compositions solely for your Lordship, and doe here professe it. By which time, I haue done all that I had in purpose, and returne to my silence:
Where you are most honor'd by
Alfonso Ferrabosco.
TO MY EXCELLENT FRIEND, ALFONSO FERRABOSCO.
TO MY EXCELLENT FRIEND, ALFONSO FERRABOSCO.
WHen we doe giue, Alfonso, to the light
A worke of ours, we part with our owne right.
For then, all mouthes will iudge; and their owne way:
The Learn'd haue no more priuiledge, then the Lay.
And, though we could all men, all censures heare,
We ought not giue them taste, we had an eare:
For, if the humerous World will talke, at large,
They should be fooles, for me, at their owne charge.
Say, this, or that man they to thee preferre;
Euen those, for whom they doe this, know they erre:
And would (being ask'd the truth) ashamed say,
They were not to be nam'd, on the same day.
Then stand vnto thy selfe, nor seeke without
For Fame, with breath soone kindled, soone blowneout.
Ben: Ionson.
Jn lode dell'arte, & dell' Authore, SONETTO.
Jn lode dell'arte, & dell' Authore, SONETTO.
S'Ogni arte tanto piu da noi s'apprezza,
Quanto FINIS. piu nobil senso per oggetto,
& quanto n'e peu degno il soggetto,
Ʋince l'altre arti harmonica dolcezza,
Quella a dar gusto & contento s'auezza
Al nostro vdir, de sensi il piu perfetto;
Per sogetto h'a numero vguale, & retto,
& di bella aria, & tuoni la vaghezza.
Questa arte dungue essendo di tal merto,
Alfonso mio, chi d' Orpheo ports il vanto,
Conuien pregiarti, & quests tuoi concenti▪
Tanto piu ch'essi con doppio concerto,
A gl'istromenti attando il dolce canto,
Di piacer doppio ne appagan le ment•.
Gual: Quin.
Lessons for the Lyra Violl. [1-25]
For two Viols. [26-31]
Section
32 A Fancie for three Viols.
33 A Pauin for three Viols.
34 Prelude.
FINIS.
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