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A Life of William Shakespeare

Note 423b — APPENDIX (continued 2)

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Mr. Tyler paraphrases these lines thus: ‘You love your other admirer named Will. Love the name alone, and then you love me, for my name is Will,’ p. 297. Professor Dowden, hardly more illuminating, says the lines mean: ‘Love only my name (something less than loving myself), and then thou lovest me, for my name is Will, and I myself am all will, i.e. all desire.’

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