both oratour and poet master _Gabriel
Harvey_, &c." In the notes to _September_, he is said to have written
many pieces, "partly vnder vnknowne titles, and partly vnder counterfeit
names: as his _Tyrannomastix_, his _old [ode] Natalitia_, his
_Rameidos_, and especially that part of _Philomusus_ his divine
_Anticosmopolite_, &c." He appears to have been an object of the petty
wits & pamphlet-critics of his times. His chief antagonists were Nash
and Greene. In the _Foure Letters_ abovementioned, may be seen many
anecdotes of his literary squabbles. To these controversies belong his
_Pierces supererogation_, Lond. 1593. Sub-Joined, is a _New Letter of
notable contents with a strange sound sonnet called_ Gorgon. To this is
sometimes added _An Advertisement for Pap-Hatchet_ &c. Nash's _Apology
of Pierce Penniless_, printed 1593, is well known. Nash also attacks
Harvey, as a fortune-teller & ballad maker, in _Have with you to
Saffron-Walden_. Nash also wrote a confutation of Harvey's _Foure
Letters_, 1592. [_Strange News, of the Intercepting Certaine Letters_,
to which Warton evidently refers, is actually the early title of the
_Apology_.] I pass over other pieces of the kind. The origin of the
dispute seems to have been, that Nash affirmed Harvey's father to have
been a rope-maker at Saffron-Walden. Harvey died, aged about 90, at
Saffron Walden, in 1630.

[20] Sonn. xliii.

[21] Sonn. xv.

[22] Except in in [sic] such a passage as when he calls this favourite
by "The master-mistress of my passion," _Sonn._ 20. And in a few others,
where the expressions literally shew the writer to be a man. [Warton of
course wanted to preserve Shakespeare's sonnets from the charge of
homosexuality. In the eighteenth century the distaste for conceits and
an acute sensitivity to the suspicion of homosexuality made the
_Sonnets_ so unpopular that they were omitted from the editions of
Shakespeare by, among others, Rowe, Pope, Theobald, Warburton, Capell,
and Johnson.]

[23] The last of these is that which begins, "O thou, my lovely Boy."
_Sonn._ 126.

[24] "When _absent_ from thee".

[25] _Sonn._ 97.

[26] They were _sweet_ indeed, but they wanted animation; and, in
appearance, they were nothing more than beautiful resemblances or copies
of you.

[27] _Sonn._ 98.

[28] _Sonn._ 99.

[29] [Warton originally wrote "1609," but immediately scored it out and
replaced it with "1599."]

[30] In 16mo. With vignettes. Never entered in t