Excerpt from On the Sonnets of Shakespeare, Identifying the Person to Whom They Are Addressed: And Elucidating Several Points in the Poet's History The inscription is arranged monumentally, in short lines, with full points after every word. That the words "only begetter" mean the person addressed by the poet, cannot, I should think, be reasonably questioned - they imply him who, as a cause, excited these verses as effects in the grateful mind of Shakespeare. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.