C. KNIGHT'S

L I B R A R Y

EDITION

OR

SHAKS PERE.

VOL. XII.-POEMS, ASCRIBED PLAYS,

INDEXES.

VOL. XII.

COMEDIES, HISTORIES, TRAGEDIES,

OF

WILLIAM SHAKSPERE.

CHARLES KNIGHT AND CO., LUDGATE STREET.

THE
AND POEMS

EDITED BY
CHARLES KNIGHT.
" It is a thing searcely believable how much, and how boldly, as well the
common writers that from time to time have copied out his works, as also
certain that have thought themselves liable to control and emend all men's
doings, have taken upon them in this author ; who ought with all reverence
to have been handled of them, and with all fear to have been preserved from
altering, depraving, or corrupting."

Udall's Preface to Erasmus's Apophthegms (applied there to Plutarch).
THE SECOND EDITION.
VOLUME XII.

LONDON:

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1842
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LONDON:
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NOTICE.

The present edition of the Poems of Shakspere comprises the Venus AND ADONIS, THE RAPE OF LUCRECE, The PassionATE PILGRIM, THE LOVER'S COMPLAINT, and the SONNETS. The Songs from the Plays of Shakspere are necessarily excluded from this edition, it being sufficient to make a reference to the Dramas to which they respectively belong.