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Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton. He was the patron for Shakespeare's long poems Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece. Really he was the only patron Shakespeare ever had. The theatre company of which he had a part also had patrons, but they were patrons of the whole company, whether or not Shakespeare was in it.

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