Venus and Adonis

'Vilia miretur vulgus; mihi flavus Apollo

Pocula Castalia plena ministret aqua.'

TO THE

RIGHT HONORABLE HENRY WRIOTHESLY,

EARL OF SOUTHAMPTON, AND BARON OF TICHFIELD.

RIGHT HONORABLE,

I KNOW not how I shall offend in dedicating my unpolished lines to your

lordship, nor how the world will censure me for choosing so strong a prop<...