“ In the poem itself, Avisa, whose name is explained in Dorrell's “Epistle to the Reader” as Amans Uxor Inviolata Semper Amanda, takes up the parable alternately with her suitors, one of whom is introduced to the reader in a prose interlude signed by the author H. W., as Henrico Willobego Italo Hispalensis. This passage contains a reference which may fairly be applied to the sonnets of Shakespeare. It runs:
“H. W. being sodenly infected with the contagion of a fantasticall fit, at the first sight of A ... ”