Shakespeare of Stratford
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XXIV. JOHN WEEVER’S SONNET TO SHAKESPEARE (1599).
Sonnet addressed ‘Ad Gulielmum Shakespeare’ in Epigrams in the Oldest Cut and Newest Fashion.
Honey-tongued Shakespeare, when I saw thine issue,
I swore Apollo got them and none other;
Their rosy-tainted features, clothed in tissue,
Some heavenborn goddess said to be their mother:
Rose-cheek’d Adonis with his amber tresses,
Fair, fire-hot Venus charming him to love her,
Chaste Lucretia virgin-like her dresses,
Proud lust-stung Tarquin seeking still to prove her:
Romeo, Richard, more whose names I know not,
Their sugar’d tongues and pure attractive beauty
Say they are Saints, although that Saints they show not,
For thousands vow to them subjective duty.
They burn in love thy children. Shakespear, let them:
Go, woo thy Muse more nymphish brood beget them.
I swore Apollo got them and none other;
Their rosy-tainted features, clothed in tissue,
Some heavenborn goddess said to be their mother:
Rose-cheek’d Adonis with his amber tresses,
Fair, fire-hot Venus charming him to love her,
Chaste Lucretia virgin-like her dresses,
Proud lust-stung Tarquin seeking still to prove her:
Romeo, Richard, more whose names I know not,
Their sugar’d tongues and pure attractive beauty
Say they are Saints, although that Saints they show not,
For thousands vow to them subjective duty.
They burn in love thy children. Shakespear, let them:
Go, woo thy Muse more nymphish brood beget them.
XXV. SHAKESPEARE A PART OWNER OF THE GLOBE THEATRE (1599).
Reference to the newly erected Globe Theatre in post-mortem inventory (May 16, 1599) of the property of Sir Thomas Brend, whose son had leased the site of the building to Shakespeare and his partners.
Una domo de novo edificata . . . in occupacione Willielmi Shakespeare et aliorum.[1]
Note. When the Globe was built in 1599 a half-interest in the property was assigned to the brothers,
- ↑ ‘[In] a house newly built . . . in the occupation of W. Shakespeare and others.’
