On the Sonnets of Shakespeare Identifying the Person to Whom They Are Addressed
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Chalmers not merely improbable but impossible. On the present occasion he was led into his absurdity by another equally great, namely, that SPENSER ad- dressed his Amoretti, a collection of Sonnets, to the great Queen ; and that Shakespeare, from a feeling of jealousy, would needs pay the same compliment to her ON THE SONNETS OF SHAKESPEARE. 17 beauties. This inference was drawn from an expression in his 80th Sonnet. " O how I faint when I of you do write, Knowing a BETTER SPIRIT doth use your ...name, And in the praise thereof spends all his might, To make me tongue-tied, speaking of your fame !" I shall show, in the sequel, who the better spirit really was, and his connection with the subject of Shakespeare's Sonnets. But could our Poet here have really referred to Spenser, no Sonnets would have crossed his mind, and alarmed his jealousy. Shakespeare had too deep a feeling of poetry, and too much modesty, not to know and declare, that the Faery Queene did more to illustrate Elizabeth, than could all the Sonnets in the universe, whoever were the writers.
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