SONGES
AND
SONETTES
,
written
by
the
right
honorable
Lorde
Henry
Haward
late
Earle
of
Surrey
,
and
other
.
Apud
Ricardum
Tottel
.
Cum
priuilegio
ad
imprimendum
solum
.
.1557
.
To
the
reder
.
THat
to
haue
wel
written
in
verse
,
yea
and
in
small
parcelles
,
deserueth
great
praise
,
the
woorkers
of
diuers
Latines
,
Italians
,
&
other
,
doe
proue
sufficiently
.
That
our
tong
is
able
in
that
kinde
to
do
as
praise
worthelye
as
the
rest
,
the
honorable
stile
of
the
noble
earle
of
Surrey
,
and
the
weightinesse
of
the
depe
witted
sir
Thomas
Wiat
the
elders
verse
,
with
seueral
graces
in
sondry
good
Englishe
writers
,
do
show
abundantly
.
It
resteth
now
(
gentle
reder
)
that
thou
thinke
it
not
euil
don
,
to
publishe
,
to
the
honor
of
the
english
tong
,
and
for
prosit
of
the
studious
of
Englishe
eloquence
,
those
workes
which
the
vngentle
horders
vp
of
such
tresure
haue
heretofore
enuied
the.
And
for
this
point
(
good
reder
)
thine
own
profit
and
pleasure
,
in
these
presentlye
,
&
in
moe
hereafter
,
shal
answer
for
my
defence
.
If
parhappes
some
mislike
the
statelinesse
of
stile
remoued
from
the
rude
skil
of
common
earee
:
I
aske
help
of
the
learned
to
defende
their
learned
frendes
,
the
authors
of
this
woork
.
And
I
exhort
the
vnlearned
,
by
reding
to
learne
to
●ee
more
skilfull
,
and
to
purge
that
swinelike
grossenesse
,
that
maketh
the
swete
maierome
not
to
smell
to
their
delight
.