[593]Sonnet 110.

[594]See Sonnets 91 and 111; also "Hamlet," III. 2. Many of Hamlet's words would come better from the mouth of an actor than a prince. See also the 66th Sonnet, "Tired with all these."

[595]Sonnet 29.

[596]"Hamlet," III. 1.

[597]Sonnet 111.

[598]Anecdote written in 1602 on the authority of Tooley the actor.

[599]The Earl of Southampton was nineteen years old when Shakespeare dedicated his "Adonis" to him.

[600]See Titian's picture. Loves of the Gods, at Blenheim.

[601]"Venus and Adonis," lines 548-553.

[602]Ibid. lines 55-60.