Him will I love for his diviner dower.
Enough for me who have our Shakespeare’s love
To see a poet win the poet’s goal,
For Will is he; enough and far above
All other prizes to make rich my soul.
“Christmas at the Mermaid.” The Coming of Love, and Other Poems, 1898 [1897].
JUDGE WILLIS, 1902
(b. 1835)
“Examination of Edward Blount, one of the printers and publishers of the Shakespeare folio of 1623.”
Did you never hear that Shakespeare the actor, whom you knew, had nothing to do with the pieces published under his name?