[12] See supr. iii. [433]. [Warton used Greek capitals in his title.]
[13] At London in quarto [1582]. There is a fine manuscript copy, at present, in the British Museum. Watson has many pieces in _Englands Helicon_, 1600.
[15] [Above the word "conformation" Warton added "constraint." It is not clear whether he intended both to stand.]
[16] I have discovered, says Mr Steevens, in a Letter to me, that Watson's Sonnets, which were printed without date, were entered on the books of the Stationer's Company, in 1581: under the Title of, "Watsons Passions, manifesting the true frenzy of Love". The Entry is to Gabriel Cawood, who afterwards published them. [See _A Transcript of the Registers of the Company of Stationers of London_, ed. Edward Arber (London, 1875-1894), II, 409.] Ad Lectorem Hexasticon is prefixed "Green's Tullie's Love", & subscribed "Tho. Watson. Oxon."--[Robert Greene, _Ciceronis Amor. Tullies Love_ (London, 1601), Sig. A3 verso.]
I find in [Joseph] _Ames' Typographical Antiquities_. [London, 1749] page 423. Amintae Gaudia. Authore Tho. Watsono. Londinensi. Juris studiosi [sic]. 4.'to. 1592 [This unique pencilled annotation seems to be in Joseph Warton's hand.]
[17] [A note to accompany this Sonnet No. VII has been almost completely destroyed by the excision, unique in the notebook, of what was originally folio 17. The mutilated line ends of the note read thus: "... nd/ ... on/... omas/... s _Tr._" This note presumably referred to Thomas Watson and cited Section XI of "A Comparative Discourse of our English Poets," in Francis Meres's _Palladis Tamia: Wit's Treasury_ (London, 1598, fol. 280), where among those praised for their Latin verse are Christopher Ocland, Thomas Watson, Thomas Campion, Walter Haddon, and "Thomas Newton with his Leyland."]
[18] Novemb. 19. [1594, not 1595.] Registr. _Station_. B. fol. 315. a.
[19] There is [a] Sonnet by Spenser, never printed with his works, prefixed to Gabriel Harveys "Foure Letters, &c. Lond. 1592." I have much pleasure in drawing this little piece from obscurity, not only as it bears the name of Spenser, but as it is at the same time a natural unaffected effusion of friendship ... [four words illegible]. (See _Observations_ on Spenser's _Fair. Qu._ [II]. [245-247?].)