GODFREY
OF
BVLLOIGNE
,
OR
The
Recouerie
of
HIERVSALEM
.
An
Heroicall
poeme
written
in
Italian
by
Seig.
Torquato
Tasso
,
and
translated
into
English
by
R.
C.
Esquire
:
And
now
the
first
part
containing
fiue
Cantos
,
Imprinted
in
both
Languages
.
LONDON
Imprinted
by
Iohn
Windet
for
Thomas
Man
dwelling
in
Pater
noster-Row
.
To
the
Reader
.
GEntlemen
,
let
it
be
lawfull
for
me
with
your
leaues
to
trouble
you
a
little
:
It
was
my
good
hap
of
late
to
get
into
my
hands
an
English
translated
Copie
of
Seig.
Tasso's
Hierusalem
,
done
(
as
I
was
informed
)
by
a
Gentleman
of
good
sort
&
quallitie
,
and
many
waies
commended
vnto
me
for
a
worke
of
singular
worth
,
&
ezcellencie
:
wherupon
,
by
the
aduise
,
or
rather
at
the
instance
of
some
of
my
best
friends
,
I
determined
to
send
it
to
the
Presse
:
Wherin
if
my
forwardnes
haue
fore-ranne
the
Gentlemans
good
liking
;
Yet
let
mee
winne
you
to
make
me
happie
with
the
sweete
possession
of
your
fauours
,
for
whose
sakes
I
haue
done
whatsoeuer
herein
is
done
.
When
first
I
sent
it
to
the
Printer
,
I
did
not
certainely
know
whose
worke
it
was
,
and
so
rested
depriued
of
al
meanes
to
gaine
his
assent
and
good
liking
thereunto
,
and
yet
notwithstanding
the
perswasions
of
some
that
would
faine
haue
preuailed
with
me
:
I
resolued
(
at
the
motion
,
no
doubt
of
some
rare
excellent
spirit
,
that
knew
and
foresaw
this
to
be
the
readiest
meanes
to
draw
him
to
publish
some
of
his
many
most
excellent
labours
)
to
goe
on
with
what
I
had
begunne
,
euer
assuring
my selfe
,
and
neuer
doubting
,
but
that
you
would
like
of
it
your selues
,
and
intertaine
it
with
such
deere
affection
as
it
doth
worthily
merit
:
Now
if
it
shall
not
in
each
part
liuely
resemble
the
absolute
perfection
of
the
doer
thereof
,
yet
is
hee
blamelesse
,
and
the
fault
as
it
is
mine
,
so
I
wil
acknowledge
it
for
mine
:
for
by
my
haste
it
proues
his
vntimely
birth
,
and
doubtlesse
miserably
wanteth
of
that
glorious
beautie
wherewith
it
otherwise
would
,
and
hereafter
happily
may
be
richly
honoured
withal
.
Now
wheras
I
thought
you
should
haue
had
all
together
,
I
must
pray
you
to
accept
of
the
fiue
first
Songes
:
For
it
hath
pleased
the
excellent
doer
of
them
(
for
certaine
causes
to
him selfe
best
knowne
)
to
command
a
staie
of
the
rest
till
the
sommer
.
In
that
which
is
done
,
I
haue
caused
the
Italian
to
be
Printed
together
with
the
English
,
for
the
delight
and
benefit
of
those
Gentlemen
,
that
loue
that
most
liuely
language
.
And
thereby
the
learned
Reader
shall
see
to
how
strict
a
course
the
translator
hath
tyed
himselfe
in
the
whole
work
,
vsurping
as
little
liberty
as
any
whatsoeuer
,
that
euer
wrote
with
any
commendations
.
Thus
(
as
in
duetie
I
ought
)
I
haue
presented
vnto
your
views
the
course
of
my
whole
proceedings
herein
,
humbly
praying
you
to
censure
of
the
work
with
such
respectfull
consideration
as
shal
be
meete
,
and
to
amend
with
patience
such
faults
as
are
vnwillingly
escaped
in
the
Printing
.
And
so
you
shall
doe
what
shall
well
beseeme
you
,
and
giue
him
his
right
that
will
neuer
wrong
you
.
From
Exceter
the
last
of
Februarie
,
1594.
Yours
C.
H.