Excerpt from Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis, Lucrece, and Other Poems: Edited With Notes I have attempted to treat them with the same thoroughness as the plays. The early readings are given with sufficient fulness for the purposes of all classes of students; and the same is true of the intro duction and the notes, in which I have aimed to supply the deficiencies of other editors. 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.