id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 29089 Johnson, Jesse Testimony of the Sonnets as to the Authorship of the Shakespearean Plays and Poems .txt text/plain 18932 1090 77 as the patron or friend of the poet; that while Shakespeare may have love of the poet or the beauty of his friend was quite as great as the and in the Sonnets the age of the writer and that of his friend are so expression of the poet's fear that his great love for his friend may This is the last Sonnet which the poet addresses to his friend. not claim that the age of the poet's friend can be certainly stated old; the last two lines of the Sonnet, referring to the indications chapter I shall quote Sonnets indicating, indeed saying, that the poet OF THESE SONNETS,--WHAT WAS THE AGE OF THE POET OF THE SHAKESPEAREAN said clearly indicates that the life of the poet's friend presented no If the friend to whom the Sonnets were addressed was Shakespeare, and If the Sonnets were written by Shakespeare, who the friend and patron ./cache/29089.txt ./txt/29089.txt