Note 426 — APPENDIX (continued 2)

Because ‘will’ by what is almost certainly a typographical accident is here printed Will in the first edition of the sonnets, Professor Dowden is inclined to accept a reference to the supposititious friend Will, and to believe the poet to pray that the lady may have her Will, i.e. the friend ‘Will [? W. H.]’ This interpretation seems to introduce a needless complication.