1573, _Oct._ 6 Southampton's birth 375
His education 375
Recognition of 377
Southampton's beauty
in youth
His reluctance to 378
marry
Intrigue with 379
Elizabeth Vernon
1598 Southampton's 379
marriage
1601-3 Southampton's 380
imprisonment
Later career 380
1624, _Nov._ 10 His death 381
IV--THE EARL OF
SOUTHAMPTON AS A
LITERARY PATRON
Southampton's 382
collection of books
References in his 382
letters to poems and
plays
His love of the 383
theatre
Poetic adulation 384
1593 Barnabe Barnes's 384
sonnet
Tom Nash's addresses 385
1595 Gervase Markham's 387
sonnet
1598 Florio's address 387
The congratulations 387
of the poets in 1603
Elegies on 389
Southampton
V--THE TRUE HISTORY
OF THOMAS THORPE AND
'MR. W. H.'
The publication of 390
the 'Sonnets' in 1609
The text of the 391
dedication
Publishers' 392
dedications
Thorpe's early life 393
His ownership of the 393
manuscript of
Marlowe's _Lucan_
His dedicatory 394
address to Edward
Blount in 1600
Character of his 395
business