Excerpt from On the Authorship of the Sonnets Attributed to Shakespeare: An Enquiry Into the Respective Claims of Bacon, Sir Philip Sidney and Others to Be Their Author Poor lady 1 She deserved a better fate, who, though advanced in pregnancy, hurried to' nurse her husband on his lingering death-bed at Arnheim, whose only fault was that he lacked the power to command his own truant heart, though all the while recognising the claims of her to Whom it properly belonged. Few Sonnets have been more commented on than I 3 5 and 136. My cousin, Mr. R. M. Theobald, holds them to have been written by Bacon to Queen Elizabeth, but not only are they too audaciously worded for this to be possible, but the writer distinctly says his name is Will. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.

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