A
Discourse
of
Englishe
Poetrie
.
INtending
to
write
some
discourse
of
English
Poetrie
,
I
thinke
it
not
amysse
if
I
speake
something
generally
of
Poetrie
,
as
,
what
it
is
,
whence
it
had
the
beginning
,
and
of
what
estimation
it
hath
alwayes
béene
and
ought
to
be
among
al
sorts
of
people
.
Poetrie
called
in
Greeke
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
beeing
deriued
from
the
Uerbe
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
which
signifieth
in
Latine
facere
in
English
,
to
make
,
may
properly
be
defined
,
the
arte
of
making
:
which
word
as
it
hath
alwaies
beene
especially
vsed
of
the
best
of
our
English
Poets
,
to
expresse
that
very
faculty
of
speaking
or
wryting
Poetically
:
so
doth
it
in
deede
containe
most
fitly
the
whole
grace
and
property
of
the
same
,
ye
more
fullye
and
effectually
then
any
other
English
Uerbe
.
That
Poetry
is
an
Arte
,
(
or
rather
a
more
excellent
thing
then
can
be
contayned
wythin
the
compasse
of
Arte
)
though
I
neede
not
stande
long
to
prooue
,
both
the
witnes
of
Horace
,
who
wrote
de
arte
Poetica
,
and
of
Terence
,
who
calleth
it
Artem
Musicam
,
and
the
very
naturall
property
thereof
may
sufficiently
declare
:
The
beginning
of
it
as
appeareth
by
Plato
,
was
of
a
vertuous
and
most
deuout
purpose
,
who
witnesseth
,
that
by
occasion
of
méeting
of
a
great
company
of
young
men
,
to
solemnize
the
feasts
which
were
called
Panegeryca
,
and
were
wont
to
be
celebrated
euery
fift
yeere
,
there
,
they
that
were
most
pregnant
in
wytt
,
and
indued
with
great
gyfts
of
wysedome
&
knowledge
in
Musicke
aboue
the
rest
did
vse
commonly
to
make
goodly
verses
,
measured
according
to
the
swéetest
notes
of
Musicke
,
containing
the
prayse
of
some
noble
vertue
,
or
of
immortalitie
,
or
of
some
such
thing
of
greatest
estimation
:
which
vnto
them
séemed
,
so
heauenly
and
ioyous
a
thing
,
that
,
thinking
such
men
to
be
inspyrde
with
some
diuine
instinct
from
heauen
,
they
called
them
Vates
.
So
when
other
among
them
of
the
finest
wits
and
aptest
capacities
beganne
in
imitation
of
these
to
frame
ditties
of
lighter
matters
,
and
tuning
them
to
the
stroake
of
some
of
the
pleasantest
kind
of
Musicke
,
then
began
there
to
growe
a
distinction
and
great
diuersity
betwéene
makers
and
makers
.
Whereby
(
I
take
it
)
beganne
thys
difference
:
that
they
which
handled
in
the
audience
of
the
people
,
graue
and
necessary
matters
,
were
called
wise
men
or
eloquent
men
,
which
they
meant
by
Uates
:
and
the
rest
which
sange
of
loue
matters
,
or
other
lighter
deuises
alluring
vnto
pleasure
and
delight
,
were
called
Poetae
or
makers
.
Thus
it
appeareth
,
both
Eloquence
and
Poetrie
to
haue
had
their
beginning
and
originall
from
these
exercises
,
béeing
framed
in
such
swéete
measure
of
sentences
&
pleasant
harmonic
called
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
which
is
an
apt
composition
of
wordes
or
clauses
,
drawing
as
it
were
by
force
the
hearers
eares
euen
whether
soeuer
it
lysteth
:
that
Plato
affirmeth
therein
to
be
contained
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
an
inchauntment
,
as
it
were
to
perswade
them
anie
thing
whether
they
would
or
no.
And
héerehence
is
sayde
,
that
men
were
first
withdrawne
from
a
wylde
and
sauadge
kinde
of
life
,
to
ciuillity
and
gentlenes
,
and
the
right
knowledge
of
humanity
by
the
force
of
this
measurable
or
tunable
speaking
.
This
opinion
shall
you
finde
confirmed
throughout
the
whole
workes
of
Plato
and
Aristotle
.
And
that
such
was
the
estimation
of
this
Poetry
at
those
times
,
that
they
supposed
all
wisedome
and
knowledge
to
be
included
mystically
in
that
diuine
instinction
,
wherewith
they
thought
their
Uates
to
bee
inspyred
.
Wherevpon
,
throughout
the
noble
workes
of
those
most
excellent
Philosophers
before
named
,
are
the
authorities
of
Poets
very
often
alledged
▪
And
Cicero
in
his
Tusculane
questions
is
of
that
minde
,
that
a
Poet
cannot
expresse
verses
aboundantly
,
sufficiently
,
and
fully
,
neither
his
eloquence
can
flowe
pleasauntly
,
or
his
wordes
sounde
well
and
plenteously
,
without
celestiall
instinction
:
which
Poets
themselues
doo
very
often
and
gladlie
witnes
of
themselues
,
as
namely
Ouid
in
6.
Fasto
:
Est
deus
in
nobis
Agitante
callescimus
illo
.
&c.
Wherevnto
I
doubt
not
equally
to
adioyne
the
authoritye
of
our
late
famous
English
Poet
,
who
wrote
the
Sheepheards
Calender
,
where
lamenting
the
decay
of
Poetry
,
at
these
dayes
,
saith
most
swéetely
to
the
same
.
Then
make
thee
winges
of
thine
aspyring
wytt
,
And
whence
thou
camest
flye
backe
to
heauen
apace
.
&c.
Whose
fine
poeticall
witt
,
and
most
exquisite
learning
,
as
he
shewed
aboundantly
in
that
péece
of
worke
,
in
my
iudgment
inferiour
to
the
workes
neither
of
Theocritus
in
Gréeke
,
nor
Virgill
in
Latine
,
whom
hee
narrowly
immitateth
:
so
I
nothing
doubt
,
but
if
his
other
workes
were
common
abroade
,
which
are
as
I
thinke
in
the
close
custodie
of
certaine
his
fréends
,
we
should
haue
of
our
owne
Poets
,
whom
wee
might
matche
in
all
respects
with
the
best
.
And
among
all
other
his
workes
whatsoeuer
,
I
would
wysh
to
haue
the
sight
of
hys
English
Poet
,
which
his
fréend
E.
K.
did
once
promise
to
publishe
,
which
whether
he
performed
or
not
,
I
knowe
not
,
if
he
did
,
my
happe
hath
not
béene
so
good
as
yet
to
sée
it
.
But
to
returne
to
the
estimation
of
Poetry
.
Besides
the
great
and
profitable
fruites
contained
in
Poetry
,
for
the
instruction
of
manners
and
precepts
of
good
life
(
for
that
was
chéefly
respected
in
the
first
age
of
Poetry
)
this
is
also
added
to
the
eternall
commendations
of
that
noble
faculty
:
that
Kinges
and
Princes
,
great
and
famous
men
,
did
euer
encourage
,
mayntaine
,
and
reward
Poets
in
al
ages
:
because
they
were
thought
onely
to
haue
the
whole
power
in
their
handes
,
of
making
men
either
immortally
famous
for
their
valiaunt
exploytes
and
vertuous
exercises
,
or
perpetually
infamous
for
their
vicious
liues
.
Wherevppon
it
is
said
of
Achilles
,
that
this
onely
vantage
he
had
of
Hector
,
that
it
was
his
fortune
to
be
extolled
and
remowned
by
the
heauenly
verse
of
Homer
.
And
as
Tully
recordeth
to
be
written
of
Alexander
,
that
with
natural
teares
he
wept
ouer
Achilles
Tombe
,
in
ioy
that
he
conceiued
at
the
consideration
,
howe
it
was
his
happe
to
be
honoured
wyth
so
diuine
a
worke
,
as
Homers
was
.
Aristotle
,
a
most
prudent
and
learned
Philosopher
,
béeing
appointed
Schoolemaster
to
the
young
Prince
Alexander
,
thought
no
worke
so
meete
to
be
reade
vnto
a
King
,
as
the
worke
of
Homer
:
wherein
the
young
Prince
being
by
him
instructed
throughly
,
sound
such
wonderfull
delight
in
the
same
when
hee
came
to
maturity
,
that
hee
would
not
onely
haue
it
with
him
in
all
his
iourneyes
,
but
in
his
bedde
also
vnder
his
pyllowe
,
to
delight
him
and
teache
him
both
nights
and
dayes
.
The
same
is
reported
of
noble
Scipio
,
who
finding
the
two
Bookes
of
Homer
in
the
spoyle
of
Kyng
Darius
,
estéemed
them
as
wonderfull
precious
Iewelles
,
making
one
of
them
his
companion
for
the
night
,
the
other
for
the
day
.
And
not
onely
was
he
thus
affected
to
the
one
péece
or
parte
of
Poetry
,
but
so
generally
he
loued
the
professors
thereof
,
that
in
his
most
serious
affayres
,
and
hottest
warres
against
Numantia
and
Carthage
,
he
could
no
whitte
be
without
that
olde
Poet
Ennius
in
his
company
.
But
to
speake
of
all
those
noble
and
wyse
Princes
,
who
bare
speciall
fauour
and
countenaunce
to
Poets
,
were
tedious
,
and
would
require
a
rehearsall
of
all
such
,
in
whose
time
there
grewe
any
to
credite
and
estimation
in
that
faculty
.
Thus
farre
therefore
may
suffice
for
the
estimation
of
Poets
.
Nowe
I
thinke
most
méete
,
to
speake
somewhat
,
concerning
what
hath
béene
the
vse
of
Poetry
,
and
wherin
it
rightly
consisted
,
and
whereof
consequently
it
obteyned
such
estimation
.
To
begin
therefore
with
the
first
that
was
first
worthelye
memorable
in
the
excellent
gyft
of
Poetrye
,
the
best
wryters
agrée
that
it
was
Orpheus
,
who
by
the
swéete
gyft
of
his
heauenly
Poetry
,
withdrew
men
from
raungyng
vncertainly
,
and
wandring
brutishly
about
,
and
made
them
gather
together
,
and
kéepe
company
,
made
houses
,
and
kept
fellowshippe
together
,
who
therefore
is
reported
(
as
Horace
sayth
)
to
asswage
the
fiercenesse
of
Tygers
,
and
mooue
the
harde
Flynts
.
After
him
was
Amphion
,
who
was
the
first
that
caused
Citties
to
bee
builded
,
and
men
therein
to
liue
decently
and
orderly
according
to
lawe
and
right
.
Next
,
was
Tyrtaeus
,
who
began
to
practise
warlike
defences
,
to
kéepe
backe
enemies
,
and
saue
themselues
from
inuasion
of
foes
.
In
thys
place
I
thinke
were
most
conuenient
to
rehearse
that
auncient
Poet
Pyndarus
:
but
of
the
certaine
time
wherein
he
flourished
,
I
am
not
very
certaine
:
but
of
the
place
where
he
continued
moste
,
it
shoulde
séeme
to
be
the
Citty
of
Thebes
,
by
Plinie
who
reporteth
,
that
Alexander
in
sacking
the
same
Cittie
,
woulde
not
suffer
the
house
wherein
he
dwelt
to
be
spoyled
as
all
the
rest
were
.
After
these
was
Homer
,
who
as
it
were
in
one
summe
comprehended
all
knowledge
,
wisedome
,
learning
,
and
pollicie
,
that
was
incident
to
the
capacity
of
man
.
And
who
so
liste
to
take
viewe
of
hys
two
Bookes
,
one
of
his
Iliades
,
the
other
his
Odissea
,
shall
throughly
perceiue
what
the
right
vse
of
Poetry
is
:
which
indeede
is
to
mingle
profite
with
pleasure
,
and
so
to
delight
the
Reader
with
pleasantnes
of
hys
Arte
,
as
in
the
meane
time
,
his
mind
may
be
well
instructed
with
knowledge
and
wisedome
.
For
so
did
that
worthy
Poet
frame
those
his
two
workes
,
that
in
reading
the
first
,
that
is
his
Iliads
,
by
declaring
and
setting
forth
so
liuely
the
Grecians
assembly
against
Troy
,
together
with
their
prowesse
and
fortitude
against
their
foes
,
a
Prince
shall
learne
not
onely
courage
,
and
valiantnesse
,
but
discretion
also
and
pollicie
to
encounter
with
his
enemies
,
yea
a
perfect
forme
of
wyse
consultations
,
with
his
Captaines
,
and
exhortations
to
the
people
,
with
other
infinite
commodities
.
Agayne
,
in
the
other
part
,
wherein
are
described
the
manifold
and
daungerous
aduentures
of
Vlisses
,
may
a
man
learne
many
noble
vertues
:
and
also
learne
to
escape
and
auoyde
the
subtyll
practises
,
and
perrilous
entrappinges
of
naughty
persons
:
and
not
onely
this
,
but
in
what
sort
also
he
may
deale
to
knowe
and
perceiue
the
affections
of
those
which
be
néere
vnto
him
,
and
most
familiar
with
him
,
the
better
to
put
them
in
trust
with
his
matters
of
waight
and
importaunce
.
Therefore
I
may
boldly
sette
downe
thys
to
be
the
truest
,
auncientest
and
best
kinde
of
Poetry
,
to
direct
ones
endeuour
alwayes
to
that
marke
,
that
with
delight
they
may
euermore
adioyne
commoditie
to
theyr
Readers
:
which
because
I
grounde
vpon
Homer
the
Prince
of
all
Poets
,
therefore
haue
I
alledged
the
order
of
his
worke
,
as
an
authority
sufficiently
proouing
this
assertion
.
Nowe
what
other
Poets
which
followed
him
,
and
béene
of
greatest
fame
,
haue
doone
for
the
moste
parte
in
their
seuerall
workes
,
I
wyll
briefely
,
and
as
my
slender
ability
wyll
serue
me
declare
.
But
by
my
leaue
,
I
must
content
my selfe
to
speake
not
of
all
,
but
of
such
as
my selfe
haue
séene
,
and
beene
best
acquainted
withall
,
and
those
not
all
nor
the
moste
part
of
the
auncient
Grecians
,
of
whom
I
knowe
not
how
many
there
were
,
but
these
of
the
Latinists
,
which
are
of
greatest
fame
and
most
obuious
among
vs
.
Thus
much
I
can
say
,
that
Aristotle
reporteth
none
to
haue
greatly
flourished
in
Gréece
,
at
least
wyse
not
left
behynd
them
any
notable
memoriall
,
before
the
time
of
Homer
.
And
Tully
sayth
as
much
,
that
there
were
none
wrytt
woorth
the
reading
twyce
in
the
Romaine
tongue
,
before
the
Poet
Ennius
.
And
surely
as
the
very
summe
or
chéefest
essence
of
Poetry
,
dyd
alwayes
for
the
most
part
consist
in
delighting
the
readers
or
hearers
wyth
pleasure
,
so
as
the
number
of
Poets
increased
,
they
styll
inclyned
thys
way
rather
then
the
other
,
so
that
most
of
them
had
speciall
regarde
,
to
the
pleasantnesse
of
theyr
fine
conceytes
,
whereby
they
might
drawe
mens
mindes
into
admiration
of
theyr
inuentions
,
more
then
they
had
to
the
profitte
or
commoditye
that
the
Readers
shoulde
reape
by
their
works
.
And
thus
as
I
suppose
came
it
to
passe
among
them
,
that
for
the
most
part
of
them
,
they
would
not
write
one
worke
contayuing
some
serious
matter
:
but
for
the
same
they
wold
likewise
powre
foorth
as
much
of
some
wanton
or
laciuious
inuention
.
Yet
some
of
the
auncientest
sort
of
Grecians
,
as
it
séemeth
were
not
so
much
disposed
to
vayne
delectation
:
as
Aristotle
sayth
of
Empedocles
,
that
in
hys
iudgment
he
was
onely
a
naturall
Philosopher
,
no
Poet
at
all
,
nor
that
he
was
like
vnto
Homer
in
any
thing
but
hys
méeter
,
or
number
of
féete
,
that
is
,
that
hée
wrote
in
verse
.
After
the
time
of
Homer
,
there
began
the
firste
Comedy
wryters
,
who
compyled
theyr
workes
in
a
better
stile
which
continued
not
long
,
before
it
was
erpelled
by
penalty
,
for
scoffing
too
broade
at
mens
manners
,
and
the
priuie
reuengements
which
the
Poets
vsed
against
their
ill
wyllers
.
Among
these
was
Eupolis
,
Cratinus
,
and
Aristophenes
,
but
afterward
the
order
of
thys
wryting
Comedies
was
reformed
and
made
more
plausible
:
then
wrytte
Plato
,
Comicus
,
Menander
,
and
I
knowe
not
who
more
.
There
be
many
most
profitable
workes
,
of
like
antiquity
,
or
rather
before
them
,
of
the
Tragedy
writers
:
as
of
Euripides
,
and
Sophocles
,
then
was
there
Phocitides
and
Theagines
,
with
many
other
:
which
Tragedies
had
their
inuention
by
one
Thespis
,
and
were
pollished
and
amended
by
AEschitus
.
The
profitte
or
discommoditie
which
aryseth
by
the
vse
of
these
Comedies
and
Tragedies
,
which
is
most
,
hath
béene
long
in
controuersie
,
and
is
sore
vrged
among
vs
at
these
dayes
:
what
I
thinke
of
the
same
,
perhaps
I
shall
bréefely
declare
anon
.
Nowe
concerning
the
Poets
which
wrote
in
homely
manner
,
as
they
pretended
,
but
indéede
,
with
great
pythe
and
learned
iudgment
,
such
as
were
the
wryters
of
Shéepeheards
talke
and
of
husbandly
precepts
,
who
were
among
the
Grecians
that
excelled
,
besides
Theocritus
and
Hesiodus
I
know
not
,
of
whom
the
first
,
what
profitable
workes
he
left
to
posterity
,
besides
hys
Idillia
,
or
contentions
of
Goteheards
,
tending
most
to
delight
,
and
pretty
inuentions
,
I
can
not
tell
.
The
other
,
no
doubt
for
his
Argument
he
tooke
in
hande
,
dealt
very
learnedly
and
profitably
,
that
is
,
in
precepts
of
Husbandry
,
but
yet
so
as
he
myred
much
wanton
stuffe
among
the
rest
.
The
first
wryters
of
Poetry
among
the
Latines
,
shoulde
séeme
to
be
those
,
which
excelled
in
the
framing
of
Commedies
,
and
that
they
continued
a
long
time
without
any
notable
memory
of
other
Poets
.
Among
whom
,
the
chéefest
that
we
may
sée
or
heare
tell
of
,
were
these
.
Ennins
,
Caecilius
,
Naeuius
,
Licinius
,
Attilius
,
Turpitius
,
Trabea
,
Luscius
,
Plautus
,
&
Terens
,
Of
whom
these
two
last
named
,
haue
béene
euer
since
theyr
time
most
famous
,
and
to
these
dayes
are
estéemed
,
as
greate
helpes
and
furtheraunces
to
the
obtayning
of
good
Letters
.
But
héere
cannot
I
stay
to
speake
of
the
most
famous
,
renowned
and
excellent
,
that
euer
writte
among
the
Latine
Poets
,
P.
Virgill
,
who
performed
the
very
same
in
that
tongue
,
which
Homer
had
doone
in
Gréeke
:
or
rather
better
if
better
might
as
Sex
.
Propert.
in
his
Elegies
gallantly
recordeth
in
his
praise
.
Nescio
quid
magis
nascitur
Iliade
.
Under
the
person
of
AEneas
he
expresseth
the
valoure
of
a
worthy
Captaine
and
valiaunt
Gouernour
,
together
with
the
perrilous
aduentures
of
warre
,
and
polliticke
deuises
at
all
assayes
.
And
as
he
immitateth
Homer
in
that
worke
,
so
dooth
he
likewyse
followe
the
very
steps
of
Theocritus
,
in
his
most
pythy
inuentions
of
his
AEglogues
:
and
likewyse
Hesiodus
in
hys
Georgicks
or
bookes
of
Husbandry
,
but
yet
more
grauely
,
and
in
a
more
decent
style
.
But
not
withstanding
hys
sage
grauity
and
wonderfull
wisedome
,
dyd
he
not
altogether
restrayne
his
vayne
,
but
that
he
would
haue
a
rast
at
some
wanton
and
skant
comely
an
Argument
,
if
indéede
such
triflles
as
be
fathered
vppon
him
were
his
owne
.
There
followed
after
him
,
very
many
rare
and
excellent
Poets
,
wherof
the
most
part
writt
light
matters
,
as
Epigrammes
and
Elegies
,
with
much
pleasant
dalliance
,
among
whom
may
be
accounted
Propertius
,
Tibullus
,
Catullus
,
with
diuers
whom
Ouid
speaketh
of
in
diuers
places
of
his
workes
.
Then
are
there
two
Hystoricall
Poets
,
no
lesse
profitable
then
delightsome
to
bee
read
:
Silius
and
Lucanus
:
the
one
declaring
the
valiant
prowesse
of
two
noble
Captaines
,
one
enemie
to
the
other
,
that
is
,
Scipio
and
Hamball
:
the
other
likewise
,
the
fortitude
of
two
expert
warriours
(
yet
more
lamentably
then
the
other
because
these
warres
were
ciuill
)
Pompey
and
Caesar.
The
next
in
tyme
(
but
as
most
men
doo
account
,
and
so
did
he
himselfe
)
the
second
in
dignity
,
we
well
adioyne
Ouid
,
a
most
learned
,
and
erquisite
Poet.
The
worke
of
greatest
profitte
which
he
wrote
,
was
his
Booke
of
Metamorphosis
,
which
though
it
consisted
of
fayned
Fables
for
the
most
part
,
and
poeticall
inuentions
,
yet
béeing
moralized
according
to
his
meaning
,
and
the
trueth
of
euery
tale
béeing
discouered
,
it
is
a
worke
of
excéeding
wysedome
and
sounde
iudgment
.
If
one
lyst
in
like
manner
,
to
haue
knowledge
and
perfect
intelligence
of
those
rytes
and
ceremonies
which
were
obserued
after
the
Religion
of
the
Heathen
,
no
more
profitable
worke
for
that
purpose
,
then
his
bookess
De
fastis
.
The
rest
of
his
dooinges
,
though
they
tende
to
the
vayne
delights
of
loue
and
dalliaunce
(
except
his
Tristibus
,
wherein
he
bewayleth
hys
exile
)
yet
surely
are
mixed
with
much
good
counsayle
and
prositable
lessons
if
they
be
wisely
and
narrowly
read
.
After
his
time
I
know
no
worke
of
any
great
fame
,
till
the
time
of
Horace
,
a
Poet
not
of
the
smoothest
style
,
but
in
sharpnesse
of
wytt
inferiour
to
none
,
and
one
to
whom
all
the
rest
both
before
his
time
and
since
,
are
very
much
beholding
.
About
the
same
time
were
Iuuenall
and
Persius
,
then
Martial
,
Seneca
a
most
excellent
wryter
of
Tragedies
,
Boetius
,
Lucretius
,
Statius
,
Val
:
Fiaccus
,
Manilius
,
Ausonius
,
Claudian
,
and
many
other
,
whose
iust
times
and
seuerall
workes
to
speake
of
in
this
place
,
were
neither
much
néedefull
,
nor
altogeather
tollerable
,
because
I
purposed
an
other
argument
.
Onely
.
I
wyll
adde
two
of
later
times
,
yet
not
farre
inferiour
to
the
most
of
them
aforesayde
,
Pallengenius
,
and
Bap:
Man●uanus
,
and
for
a
singuler
gyft
in
a
sweete
Heroicall
verse
,
match
with
them
Chr.
Oclan
.
the
Authour
of
our
Anglorum
Praelia
But
nowe
least
I
stray
too
farre
from
my
puopose
,
I
wyl
come
to
our
English
Poets
,
to
whom
I
would
I
were
able
to
yeelde
theyr
deserued
commendations
:
and
affoorde
them
that
censure
,
which
I
know
many
woulde
,
which
can
better
,
if
they
were
nowe
to
write
in
my
stéede
.
I
know
no
memorable
worke
written
by
any
Poet
in
our
English
spéeche
,
vntill
twenty
yéeres
past
:
where
although
Learning
was
not
generally
decayde
at
any
time
,
especially
since
the
Conquest
of
King
William
Duke
of
Normandy
,
as
it
may
appeare
by
many
famous
works
&
learned
bookes
(
though
not
of
this
kinde
)
wrytten
by
Byshoppes
and
others
:
yet
surelye
that
Poetry
was
in
small
price
among
them
,
it
is
very
manifest
,
and
no
great
maruayle
,
for
euen
that
light
of
Grieke
and
Latine
Poets
which
they
had
,
they
much
contemned
,
as
appeareth
by
theyr
rude
versifying
,
which
of
long
time
was
vsed
(
a
barbarous
vse
it
was
)
wherin
they
conuerted
the
naturall
property
of
the
swéete
Latine
verse
,
to
be
a
balde
kinde
of
ryming
,
thinking
nothing
to
be
learnedly
written
in
verse
,
which
fell
not
out
in
ryme
,
that
is
,
in
wordes
whereof
the
middle
worde
of
eche
verse
should
sound
a
like
with
the
last
,
or
of
two
verses
,
the
ende
of
both
should
fall
in
the
like
letters
,
as
thus
.
O
malè
viuentes
,
versus
audite
sequentes
.
And
thus
likewyse
.
Propter
haec
et
alia
dogmata
doctorum
.
Reor
esse
melius
et
magis
decorum
:
Quisque
suam
habeat
,
et
non
proximorum
.
This
brutish
Poetrie
,
though
it
had
not
the
beginning
in
this
Countrey
,
yet
so
hath
it
béene
affected
héere
,
that
the
infection
thereof
would
neuer
(
nor
I
thinke
euer
will
)
be
rooted
vppe
againe
:
I
meane
this
tynkerly
verse
which
we
call
ryme
:
Master
Ascham
sayth
,
that
it
first
began
to
be
followed
and
maintained
among
the
Hunnes
and
Gothians
,
and
other
barbarous
Nations
,
who
with
the
decay
of
all
good
learning
,
brought
it
into
Italy
:
from
thence
it
came
into
Fraunce
,
and
so
to
Germany
,
at
last
conueyed
into
England
,
by
men
indeede
of
great
wisedome
and
learning
,
but
not
considerate
nor
circum
spect
in
that
behalfe
.
But
of
this
I
must
intreate
more
heereafter
.
Henry
the
first
King
of
that
name
in
England
,
is
wonderfully
ertolled
,
in
all
auncient
Recordes
of
memory
,
for
hys
singuler
good
learning
,
in
all
kinde
of
noble
studies
,
in
so
much
as
he
was
named
by
his
surname
Beaucleark
,
as
much
to
say
,
as
Fayreclerke
(
whereof
perhappes
came
the
name
of
Fayreclowe
)
what
knowledge
hee
attained
in
the
skyll
of
Poetry
,
I
am
not
able
to
say
,
I
report
his
name
for
proofe
,
that
learning
in
this
Country
was
not
little
estéemed
of
at
that
rude
time
,
and
that
like
it
is
,
among
other
studies
,
a
King
would
not
neglect
the
faculty
of
Poetry
.
The
first
of
our
English
Poets
that
I
have
heard
of
,
was
Iohn
Gower
,
about
the
time
of
king
Rychard
the
seconde
,
as
it
should
séeme
by
certayne
coniectures
bothe
a
Knight
,
and
questionlesse
a
singuler
well
learned
man
:
whose
workes
I
could
wysh
they
were
all
whole
and
perfect
among
vs
,
for
no
doubt
they
contained
very
much
déepe
knowledge
and
delight
:
which
may
be
gathered
by
his
fréend
Chawcer
,
who
speaketh
of
him
oftentimes
,
in
diuer
places
of
hys
workes
.
Chawcer
,
who
for
that
excellent
fame
which
hee
obtayned
in
his
Poetry
,
was
alwayes
accounted
the
God
of
English
Poets
(
such
a
tytle
for
honours
sake
hath
béene
giuen
him
)
was
nert
after
,
if
not
equall
in
time
to
Gower
:
and
hath
left
many
workes
,
both
for
delight
and
profitable
knowledge
,
farre
excéeding
any
other
that
as
yet
euer
s●●●e
hys
time
directed
theyr
studies
that
way
.
Though
the
manner
of
hys
stile
may
séeme
blunt
&
course
to
many
fine
English
eares
at
these
dayes
,
yet
in
trueth
,
if
it
be
equally
pondered
,
and
with
good
iudgment
aduised
,
and
confirmed
with
the
time
wherein
he
wrote
,
a
man
shall
perceiue
thereby
euen
a
true
picture
or
perfect
shape
of
a
right
Poet.
He
by
his
delightsome
vayne
,
so
gulled
the
eares
of
men
with
his
deuises
,
that
,
although
corruption
bare
such
sway
in
most
matters
,
that
learning
and
truth
might
skant
bée
admitted
to
shewe
it selfe
,
yet
without
controllment
,
myght
hée
gyrde
at
the
vices
and
abuses
of
all
states
,
and
gawle
with
very
sharpe
and
eger
inuentions
,
which
he
did
so
learnedly
and
pleasantly
,
that
none
therefore
would
call
him
into
question
.
For
such
was
his
bolde
spyrit
,
that
what
enormities
he
saw
in
any
,
he
would
not
spare
to
pay
them
home
,
eyther
in
playne
words
,
or
els
in
some
prety
and
pleasaunt
couert
,
that
the
simplest
might
espy
him
.
Néere
in
time
vnto
him
was
Lydgate
a
Poet
,
surely
for
good
proportion
of
his
verse
,
and
méetely
currant
style
,
as
the
time
affoorded
comparable
with
Chawcer
,
yet
more
occupyed
in
supersticious
and
odde
matters
,
then
was
requesite
in
so
good
a
wytte
:
which
,
though
he
handled
them
commendably
,
yet
the
matters
themselues
béeing
not
so
commendable
,
hys
estimation
hath
béene
the
lesse
.
The
next
of
our
auncient
Poets
,
that
I
can
tell
of
,
I
suppose
to
be
Pierce
Ploughman
,
who
in
hys
dooinges
is
somewhat
harshe
and
obscure
,
but
indéede
a
very
pithy
wryter
,
and
(
to
hys
commendation
I
speake
it
)
was
the
first
that
I
haue
séene
,
that
obserued
the
quantity
of
our
verse
without
the
curiosity
of
Ryme
.
Since
these
I
knowe
none
other
tyll
the
time
of
Skelton
,
who
writ
in
the
time
of
kyng
Henry
the
eyght
,
who
as
indéede
he
obtayned
the
Lawrell-Garland
,
so
may
I
wyth
good
ryght
yéelde
him
the
title
of
a
Poet
:
hée
was
doubtles
a
pleasant
conceyted
fellowe
,
and
of
a
very
sharpe
wytte
,
excéeding
bolde
,
and
would
nyppe
to
the
very
quicke
where
he
once
sette
holde
.
Next
hym
I
thynke
I
may
place
master
George
Gaskoyne
,
as
paine
full
a
Souldier
in
the
affayres
of
hys
Prince
and
Country
,
as
he
was
a
wytty
Poet
in
his
wryting
:
whose
commendations
,
because
I
found
in
one
of
better
iudgment
then
my selfe
,
I
wyl
sette
downe
hys
wordes
,
and
suppresse
myne
owne
,
of
hym
thus
wryteth
E.
K.
vppon
the
ninth
AEglogue
of
the
new
Poet.
Master
George
Gaskoyne
a
wytty
Gentleman
,
and
the
very
chéefe
of
our
late
rymers
,
who
and
if
some
partes
of
learning
wanted
not
(
albeit
is
well
knowne
he
altogether
wanted
not
learning
)
no
doubt
would
haue
attayned
to
the
excellencye
of
those
famous
Poets
.
For
gyfts
of
wytt
,
and
naturall
promptnes
appeare
in
him
aboundantly
.
I
might
next
speake
of
the
dyuers
workes
of
the
olde
Earle
of
Surrey
:
of
the
L.
Vaus
,
of
Norton
,
of
Bristow
,
Edwardes
,
Tusser
,
Churchyard
.
Wyl
:
Hunnis
:
Haiwood
:
Sand
:
Hyll
:
S.
Y.
M.
D.
and
many
others
,
but
to
speake
of
their
seuerall
gyfts
,
and
aboundant
skyll
shewed
forth
by
them
in
many
pretty
and
learned
workes
,
woulde
make
my
discourse
much
more
tedious
.
I
may
not
omitte
the
deserued
commendations
of
many
honourable
and
noble
Lordes
,
and
Gentlemen
,
in
her
Maiesties
Courte
,
which
in
the
rare
deuises
of
Poetry
,
haue
béene
and
yet
are
most
excellent
skylfull
,
among
whom
,
the
right
honourable
Earle
of
Oxford
may
challenge
to
him selfe
the
tytle
of
the
most
excellent
among
the
rest
.
I
can
no
longer
forget
those
learned
Gentlemen
which
tooke
such
profitable
paynes
in
translating
the
Latine
Poets
into
our
English
tongue
,
whose
desertes
in
that
behalfe
are
more
then
I
can
vtter
.
Among
these
,
I
euer
estéemed
,
and
while
I
lyue
,
in
my
conceyt
I
shall
account
Master
D.
Phaer:
without
doubt
the
best
:
who
as
indéede
hee
had
the
best
péece
of
Poetry
whereon
to
sette
a
most
gallant
verse
,
so
performed
he
it
accordingly
,
and
in
such
sort
,
as
in
my
conscience
I
thinke
would
scarcely
be
doone
againe
,
if
it
were
to
doo
again
.
Notwithstanding
,
I
speak
it
but
as
myne
own
fancy
,
not
preiudiciall
to
those
that
list
to
thinke
otherwyse
.
Hys
worke
whereof
I
speake
,
is
the
englishing
of
AEneidos
of
Virgill
,
so
farre
foorth
as
it
pleased
God
to
spare
him
life
,
which
was
to
the
halfe
part
of
the
tenth
Booke
,
the
rest
béeing
since
wyth
no
lesse
commendations
finished
,
by
that
worthy
scholler
and
famous
Phisition
Master
Thomas
Twyne
.
Equally
with
him
may
I
well
adioyne
Master
Arthur
Golding
,
for
hys
labour
in
englishing
Ouids
Metamorphosis
,
for
which
Gentleman
,
surely
our
Country
hath
for
many
respects
greatly
to
gyue
God
thankes
:
as
for
him
which
hath
taken
infinite
paynes
without
ceasing
,
trauelleth
as
yet
indefatigably
,
and
is
addicted
without
society
,
by
his
continuall
laboure
,
to
profit
this
nation
and
spéeche
in
all
kind
of
good
learning
.
The
next
,
very
well
deserueth
Master
Barnabe
Googe
to
be
placed
,
as
a
painefull
furtherer
of
learning
:
hys
helpe
to
Poetry
besides
hys
owne
deuises
,
as
the
translating
of
Pallengenius
.
Lodiac
.
Abraham
Flemming
as
in
many
prety
Poesis
of
hys
owne
,
so
in
translating
hath
doone
to
hys
commendations
.
To
whom
I
would
heere
adioyne
one
of
hys
name
,
whom
I
know
to
haue
excelled
,
as
well
in
all
kinde
of
learning
as
in
Poetry
most
especially
,
and
would
appeare
so
,
if
the
dainty
morselles
,
and
fine
poeticall
inuentions
of
hys
,
were
as
common
abroade
as
I
knowe
they
be
among
some
of
hys
fréendes
.
I
wyl
craue
leaue
of
the
laudable
Authors
of
Seneca
in
English
,
of
the
other
partes
of
Ouid
,
of
Horace
,
of
Mantuan
,
and
diuers
other
,
because
I
would
hasten
to
ende
thys
rehearsall
,
perhappes
offensyue
to
some
,
whom
eyther
by
forgetfulnes
,
or
want
of
knowledge
,
I
must
néedes
ouer
passe
.
And
once
againe
,
I
am
humbly
to
desire
pardon
of
the
learned
company
of
Gentlemen
Schollers
,
and
students
of
the
Uniuersities
,
and
Innes
of
Courte
,
yf
I
omitte
theyr
seuerall
commendations
in
this
place
,
which
I
knowe
a
great
number
of
them
haue
worthely
deserued
,
in
many
rare
deuises
,
and
singuler
inuentions
of
Poetrie
:
for
neither
hath
it
béene
my
good
happe
,
to
haue
séene
all
which
I
haue
hearde
of
,
neyther
is
my
abyding
in
such
place
,
where
I
can
with
facility
get
knowledge
of
their
workes
.
One
Gentleman
notwithstanding
among
them
may
I
not
ouer
slyppe
,
so
farre
reacheth
his
fame
,
and
so
worthy
is
he
,
if
hee
haue
not
already
,
to
weare
the
Lawrell
wreathe
,
Master
George
Whetstone
,
a
man
singularly
well
skyld
in
this
faculty
of
Poetrie
:
To
him
I
will
ioyne
Anthony
Munday
,
an
earnost
traueller
in
this
arte
,
and
in
whose
name
I
haue
séene
very
excellent
workes
,
among
which
surely
,
the
most
exquisite
vaine
of
a
witty
poeticall
heade
is
shewed
in
the
swéete
sobs
of
Shéepheardes
and
Nymphes
:
a
worke
well
worthy
to
be
viewed
,
and
to
bée
estéemed
as
very
rare
Poetrie
.
With
these
I
may
place
Iohn
Graunge
,
Knyght
,
Wylmott
,
Darrell
,
F.
C.
F.
K.
G.
B.
and
many
other
,
whose
names
come
not
nowe
to
my
remembraunce
.
This
place
haue
I
purposely
reserued
for
one
,
who
if
not
only
,
yet
in
my
iudgement
principally
deserueth
the
tytle
of
the
rightest
English
Poet
,
that
euer
I
read
:
that
is
,
the
Author
of
the
Shéepeheardes
Kalender
,
intituled
to
the
woorthy
Gentleman
Master
Phillip
Sydney
:
whether
it
was
Master
Sp.
or
what
rare
Scholler
in
Pembrooke
Hall
soeuer
,
because
himself
and
his
fréendes
,
for
what
respect
I
knowe
not
,
would
not
reueale
it
,
I
force
not
greatly
to
sette
downe
:
sorry
I
am
that
I
can
not
find
none
other
with
whom
I
might
couple
him
in
this
Catalogue
,
in
his
rare
gyft
of
Poetry
:
although
one
there
is
,
though
nowe
long
since
,
seriously
occupied
in
grauer
studies
,
(
Master
Gabriell
Haruey
)
yet
,
as
he
was
once
his
most
special
fréende
and
fellow
Poet
,
so
because
he
hath
taken
such
paynes
,
not
onely
in
his
Latin
Poetry
(
for
which
he
enioyed
great
com
mendations
of
the
best
both
in
iudgment
and
dignity
in
thys
Realme
)
but
also
to
reforme
our
English
verse
,
and
to
beautify
the
same
with
braue
deuises
,
o
which
I
thinke
the
chéefe
lye
bidde
in
hatefull
obscurity
:
therefore
wyll
I
aduenture
to
sette
them
together
,
as
two
of
the
rarest
witts
,
and
learnedst
masters
of
Poetrie
in
England
.
Whose
worthy
and
notable
skyl
in
this
faculty
,
I
would
wysh
if
their
high
dignities
and
serious
businesses
would
permit
,
they
would
styll
graunt
to
bee
a
furtheraunce
to
that
reformed
kinde
of
Poetry
,
which
Master
Haruey
did
once
beginne
to
ratify
:
and
surely
in
mine
opinion
,
if
hée
had
chosen
some
grauer
matter
,
and
handled
but
with
halfe
that
skyll
,
which
I
knowe
he
could
haue
doone
,
and
not
powred
it
foorth
at
a
venture
,
as
a
thinge
betwéene
iest
and
earnest
,
it
had
taken
greater
effect
then
it
did
.
As
for
the
other
Gentleman
,
if
it
would
please
him
or
hys
fréendes
to
let
those
excellent
Poemes
,
whereof
I
know
he
hath
plenty
,
come
abroad
,
as
his
Dreames
,
his
Legends
,
his
Court
of
Cupid
,
his
English
Poet
with
other
:
he
shoulde
not
onely
stay
the
rude
pens
of
my selfe
and
others
,
but-also
satisfye
the
thirsty
desires
of
many
which
desire
nothing
more
,
then
to
see
more
of
hys
rare
inuentions
.
If
I
ioyne
to
Master
Haruey
hys
two
Brethren
,
I
am
assured
,
though
they
be
both
busied
with
great
and
waighty
callinges
(
the
one
a
godly
and
learned
Diuine
,
the
other
a
famous
and
skylfull
Phisition
)
yet
if
they
lysted
to
sette
to
their
helping
handes
to
Poetry
,
they
would
as
much
beautify
and
adorne
it
as
any
others
.
If
I
let
passe
the
vncountable
rabble
of
ryming
Ballet
makers
,
and
compylers
of
sencelesse
sonets
,
who
be
most
busy
,
to
stuffe
euery
stall
full
of
grosse
deuises
and
vnlearned
Pamphlets
:
I
trust
I
shall
with
the
best
sort
be
held
excused
.
For
though
many
such
can
frame
an
Alehouse
song
of
fiue
or
sixe
score
verses
,
hobbling
vppon
some
tune
of
a
Northen
Iygge
,
or
Robyn
hoode
,
or
La
lubber
&c.
And
perhappes
obserue
iust
number
of
sillables
,
eyght
in
one
line
,
sixe
in
an
other
,
and
there
withall
an
A
to
make
a
iercke
in
the
ende
:
yet
if
these
might
be
accounted
Poets
(
as
it
is
sayde
some
of
them
make
meanes
to
be
promoted
to
the
Lawrell
)
surely
we
shall
shortly
haue
whole
swarmes
of
Poets
:
and
euery
one
that
can
frame
a
Booke
in
Ryme
,
though
for
want
of
matter
,
it
be
but
in
commendations
of
Copper
noses
or
Bottle
Ale
,
wyll
catch
at
the
Garlande
due
to
Poets
:
whose
potticall
poeticall
(
I
should
say
)
heades
,
I
would
wyshe
,
at
their
worshipfull
comencements
might
in
steede
of
Lawrell
;
be
gorgiously
garnished
with
fayre
greene
Barley
,
in
token
of
their
good
affection
to
our
Englishe
Malt.
One
speaketh
thus
homely
of
them
,
with
whose
words
I
wyll
content
my selfe
for
thys
time
,
because
I
woulde
not
bee
too
broade
wyth
them
in
myne
owne
speeche
.
In
regarde
(
he
meaneth
of
the
learned
framing
the
newe
Poets
workes
which
writt
the
Sheepheardes
Calender
.
)
I
scorne
and
spue
out
the
rakehelly
rout
of
our
ragged
Kymers
,
(
for
so
themselues
vse
to
hunt
the
Letter
)
which
without
learning
boaste
,
without
iudgment
iangle
,
without
reason
rage
and
fume
,
as
if
some
instinct
of
poeticall
spyrite
had
newlie
ranished
them
,
aboue
the
meanesse
of
common
capacity
.
And
beeing
in
the
midst
of
all
their
brauery
,
suddainly
for
want
of
matter
or
of
Kyme
,
or
hauing
forgotten
their
former
conceyt
,
they
seeme
to
be
so
payned
and
trauelled
in
theyr
remembraunce
,
as
it
were
a
woman
in
Chyldbyrth
,
or
as
that
same
Pythia
when
the
traunce
came
vpon
her
.
Os
rabidum
fera
corda
domans
&c.
THus
farre
foorth
haue
I
aduentured
to
sette
downe
part
of
my
simple
iudgement
concerning
those
Poets
,
with
whom
for
the
most
part
I
haue
beene
acquainted
through
myne
owne
reading
:
which
though
it
may
seeme
something
impertinent
to
the
tytle
of
my
Booke
,
yet
I
trust
the
courteous
Keaders
wyll
pardon
me
,
considering
that
poetry
is
not
of
that
grounde
and
antiquity
in
our
English
tongue
,
but
that
speaking
thereof
only
as
it
is
English
,
would
seeme
like
vnto
the
drawing
of
ones
pycture
without
a
heade
.
Nowe
therefore
by
your
gentle
patience
,
wyll
I
wyth
like
breuity
make
tryall
,
what
I
can
say
concerning
our
Englishe
Poetry
,
first
in
the
matter
thereof
,
then
in
the
forme
,
that
is
,
the
manner
of
our
verse
:
yet
so
as
I
must
euermore
haue
recourse
to
those
times
and
wryters
,
whereon
the
English
poetry
taketh
as
it
were
the
discent
and
proprietye
.
English
Poetry
therefore
béeing
considered
according
to
common
custome
and
auncient
vse
,
is
,
where
any
worke
is
learned
ly
compiled
in
measurable
spéeche
,
and
framed
in
wordes
contayning
number
or
proportion
of
iust
syllables
,
delighting
the
readers
or
hearers
as
well
by
the
apt
and
decent
framing
of
wordes
in
equall
resemblance
of
quantity
,
commonly
called
verse
,
as
by
the
skyllfull
handling
of
the
matter
whereof
it
is
intreated
.
I
spake
somewhat
of
the
beginning
of
thys
measuring
of
wordes
in
iust
number
,
taken
out
of
Plato
:
and
indeede
the
regarde
of
true
quantity
in
Letters
and
syllables
,
seemeth
not
to
haue
been
much
vrged
before
the
time
of
Homer
in
Gréece
,
as
Aristotle
witnesseth
.
The
matters
whereof
verses
were
first
made
,
were
eyther
erhortations
to
vertue
,
dehortations
from
vices
,
or
the
prayses
of
some
laudable
thing
.
From
thence
they
beganne
to
vse
them
in
erercises
of
immitating
some
vertuous
and
wise
man
at
their
feastes
:
where
as
some
one
shoulde
be
appointed
to
represent
an
other
mans
person
of
high
estimation
,
and
he
sang
fine
ditties
and
wittie
sentences
,
tunably
to
their
Musick
notes
.
Of
thys
sprang
the
first
kinde
of
Comedyes
,
when
they
beganne
to
bring
into
these
ercercises
,
more
persons
then
one
,
whose
speeches
were
deuised
Dyalogue
wise
,
in
aunswering
one
another
.
And
of
such
like
erercises
,
or
as
some
wyll
néedes
haue
it
,
long
before
the
other
,
began
the
first
Tragedies
,
and
were
so
called
of
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
because
the
Ador
when
he
began
to
play
his
part
,
slewe
and
offered
a
Goate
to
their
Goddesse
:
but
Commedies
tooke
their
name
of
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
comessatum
ire
;
to
goe
a
feasting
,
because
they
vsed
to
goe
in
procession
with
their
sport
about
the
Citties
and
Villages
,
mingling
much
pleasaunt
myrth
wyth
theyr
graue
Religion
,
and
feasting
cheerefully
together
wyth
as
great
ioy
as
might
be
deuised
.
But
not
long
after
(
as
one
delight
draweth
another
)
they
began
to
inuent
new
persons
and
newe
matters
for
their
Comedies
,
such
as
the
deuisers
thought
méetest
to
please
the
peoples
vaine
:
And
from
these
,
they
beganne
to
present
in
shapes
of
men
,
the
natures
of
vertues
and
vices
,
and
affections
and
quallities
incident
to
men
,
as
Justice
,
Temperance
,
Pouerty
,
Wrathe
,
Uengeaunce
,
Sloth
,
Ualiantnes
and
such
like
;
as
may
appeare
by
the
auncient
workes
of
Aristophanes
.
There
grewe
at
last
to
be
a
greater
diuersitye
betwéene
Tragedy
wryters
and
Comedy
wryters
,
the
one
expressing
onely
sorrowfull
and
lamentable
Hystories
,
bringing
in
the
persons
of
Gods
and
Goddesses
,
Kynges
and
Quéenes
,
and
great
states
,
whose
partes
were
chéefely
to
expresse
most
miserable
calamities
,
and
dreadfull
chaunces
,
which
increased
worse
and
worse
,
tyll
they
came
to
the
most
wofull
plight
that
might
be
deuised
.
The
Comedies
on
the
other
side
,
were
directed
to
a
contrary
ende
,
which
beginning
doubtfully
,
drewe
to
some
trouble
or
turmoyle
,
and
by
some
lucky
chaunce
alwayes
ended
to
the
ioy
and
appeasement
of
all
parties
.
Thys
distinction
grewe
as
some
holde
opinion
,
by
immitation
of
the
workes
of
Homer
:
for
out
of
hys
Iliads
,
the
Tragedy
wryters
founde
dreadfull
euents
,
whereon
to
frame
their
matters
,
and
the
other
out
of
hys
Odyssea
tooke
arguments
of
delight
,
and
pleasant
ending
after
dangerous
and
troublesome
doubtes
.
So
that
,
though
there
be
many
sortes
of
poeticall
wrytings
,
and
Poetry
is
not
debarred
from
any
matter
,
which
may
be
expressed
by
penne
or
spéeche
,
yet
for
the
better
vnderstanding
,
and
bréefer
method
of
thys
discourse
,
I
may
comprehende
the
same
in
thrée
sortes
,
which
are
,
Comicall
,
Tragicall
,
Historicall
.
Under
the
first
,
may
be
contained
all
such
Epigrammes
,
Elegies
and
delectable
ditties
,
which
Poets
haue
deuised
respecting
onely
the
delight
thereof
:
in
the
seconde
,
all
dolefull
complaynts
,
lamentable
chaunces
,
and
what
soeuer
is
poetically
expressed
in
sorrow
and
heauines
.
In
the
third
,
we
may
comprise
,
the
reste
of
all
such
matters
,
which
as
indifferent
betwéene
the
other
two
,
doo
commonly
occupy
the
pennes
of
Poets
:
such
,
are
the
poeticall
com
pyling
of
Chronicles
,
the
fréendly
gréetings
betwéene
fréendes
,
and
very
many
sortes
besides
,
which
for
the
better
destinction
may
be
referred
to
one
of
these
thrée
kindes
of
Poetry
.
But
once
againe
,
least
my
discourse
runne
too
farre
awry
,
wyll
I
buckle
my selfe
more
neerer
to
English
Poetry
:
the
vse
wherof
,
because
it
is
nothing
different
from
any
other
,
I
thinke
best
to
confirme
by
the
testimony
of
Horace
,
a
man
worthy
to
beare
authoin
this
matter
:
whose
very
opinion
is
this
,
that
the
perfect
perfection
of
poetrie
is
this
,
to
mingle
delight
with
profitt
in
such
wyse
,
that
a
Reader
might
by
his
reading
be
pertaker
of
bothe
,
which
though
I
touched
in
the
beginning
,
yet
I
thought
good
to
alledge
in
this
place
for
more
confirmation
thereof
some
of
hys
owne
wordes
.
In
his
treatise
de
arte
Poetica
,
thus
hee
sayth
.
Aut
prodesse
volunt
aut
delectare
poetae
,
Aut
simul
et
iucunda
et
idonea
dicere
vitae
.
As
much
to
saie
:
All
Poets
desire
either
by
their
works
to
profitt
or
delight
men
,
or
els
to
ioyne
both
profitable
&
pleasant
lessons
together
for
the
instruction
of
life
.
And
againe
.
Omne
tulit
punctum
qui
miscuit
vtile
dulci
,
Lectorum
delectando
pariterque
monendo
.
That
is
.
He
misseth
nothing
of
his
marke
which
ioyneth
profitt
with
delight
,
as
well
delighting
his
Readers
,
as
profiting
them
with
counsell
.
And
that
whole
Epistle
which
hee
wryt
of
his
Arte
of
Poetrie
,
among
all
the
parts
thereof
,
runneth
chéefelie
vppon
this
,
that
whether
the
argument
which
the
Poet
handleth
,
be
of
thinges
doone
,
or
fained
inuentions
,
yet
that
they
should
beare
such
an
Image
of
trueth
,
that
as
they
delight
they
may
likewise
profitt
.
For
these
are
his
wordes
.
Ficta
voluptatis
causa
sint
proxima
veris.
Let
thinges
that
are
faigned
for
pleasures
sake
,
haue
a
néere
resemblance
of
the
truth
.
This
precept
may
you
perceiue
to
bee
most
duelie
obserued
of
Chawcer
:
for
who
could
with
more
delight
,
prescribe
such
whol
some
counsaile
and
sage
aduise
,
where
he
séemeth
onelie
to
respect
the
profitte
of
his
lessons
and
instructions
?
or
who
coulde
with
greater
wisedome
,
or
more
pithie
skill
,
vnfold
such
pleasant
and
delightsome
matters
of
mirth
,
as
though
they
respected
nothing
,
but
the
telling
of
a
merry
tale
?
so
that
this
is
the
very
grounde
of
right
poetrie
,
to
giue
profitable
counsaile
,
yet
so
as
it
must
be
mingled
with
delight
.
For
among
all
the
auncient
works
of
poetrie
,
though
the
most
of
them
incline
much
to
that
part
of
delighting
men
with
pleasant
matters
of
small
importannce
,
yet
euen
in
the
vainest
trifles
among
them
,
there
is
not
forgotten
some
profitable
counsaile
,
which
a
man
may
learne
,
either
by
flatte
precepts
which
therein
are
prescribed
,
or
by
loathing
such
vile
vices
,
the
enormities
whereof
they
largelie
discouer
.
For
surelie
,
I
am
of
this
opinion
,
that
the
wantonest
Poets
of
all
,
in
their
mest
laciuious
workes
wherein
they
busied
themselues
,
sought
rather
by
that
meanes
to
withdraw
mens
mindes
(
especiallie
the
best
natures
)
from
such
foule
vices
,
then
to
allure
them
to
imbrace
such
beastly
follies
as
they
detected
.
Horace
speaking
of
the
generall
dueties
of
Poets
,
sayth
,
Os
tenerum
pueri
balbumque
poeta
fugitat
,
and
manie
more
wordes
concerning
the
profitte
to
be
hadde
out
of
Poets
,
which
because
I
haue
some
of
them
comprised
into
an
English
translation
of
that
learned
and
famous
Knight
,
Sir
Thomas
Elyot
,
I
wyll
set
downe
his
wordes
.
The
Poet
fashioneth
by
some
pleasant
meane
,
The
speeche
of
children
stable
and
vnsure
:
Gulling
their
eares
from
wordes
and
thinges
vncleane
,
Giuing
to
them
precepts
that
are
pure
:
Rebuking
enuy
and
wrath
if
it
dure
:
Thinges
well
donne
he
can
by
example
commend
,
To
needy
and
sicke
he
doth
also
his
cure
To
recomfort
if
ought
he
can
amende
.
And
manie
other
like
wordes
are
in
that
place
of
Horace
to
like
effect
.
Therefore
poetrie
,
as
it
is
of
it selfe
,
without
abuse
is
not
onely
not
vnprofitable
to
the
liues
and
studies
of
menne
,
but
wonderfull
commendable
and
of
great
excellencie
.
For
nothing
can
be
more
acceptable
to
men
,
or
rather
to
be
wished
,
than
swéete
allurements
to
vertues
,
and
commodious
caucates
from
vices
?
of
which
Poetrie
is
excéeding
plentifull
,
powring
into
gentle
witts
,
not
roughly
and
tirannicallie
,
but
as
it
were
with
a
louing
authoritie
.
Nowe
if
the
ill
and
vndecent
prouocations
,
whereof
some
vnbridled
witts
take
occasion
by
the
reading
of
laciuious
Poemes
,
bee
obiected
:
such
as
are
Ouids
loue
Bookes
,
and
Elegies
,
Tibullus
,
Catullus
,
and
Martials
workes
,
with
the
Comedies
for
the
most
part
of
Plautus
and
Terence
:
I
thinke
it
easily
aunswered
.
For
though
it
may
not
iustlie
be
denied
,
that
these
workes
are
indéede
very
Poetrie
,
yet
that
Poetrie
in
them
is
not
the
essentiall
or
formall
matter
or
cause
of
the
hurt
therein
might
be
affirmed
,
and
although
that
reason
should
come
short
,
yet
this
might
be
sufficient
,
that
the
workes
themselues
doo
not
corrupt
,
but
the
abuse
of
the
vsers
,
who
vndamaging
their
owne
dispositions
,
by
reading
the
discoueries
of
vices
,
resemble
foolish
folke
,
who
comming
into
a
Garden
without
anie
choise
or
circumspection
tread
downe
the
fairest
flowres
,
and
wilfullie
thrust
their
fingers
among
the
nettles
.
And
surelie
to
speake
what
I
verelie
thinke
,
this
is
mine
opinion
:
that
one
hauing
sufficient
skyll
,
to
reade
and
vnderstand
those
workes
,
and
yet
no
staie
of
himselfe
to
auoyde
incon
ueniences
,
which
the
remembraunce
of
vnlawfull
things
may
stirre
vppe
in
his
minde
,
he
,
in
my
iudgement
,
is
wholy
to
bée
reputed
a
laciuious
disposed
personne
,
whom
the
recitall
of
sins
whether
it
be
in
a
good
worke
or
a
badde
,
or
vppon
what
occasion
soeuer
,
wyll
not
staie
him
but
prouoke
him
further
vnto
them
.
Contrariwise
,
what
good
lessons
the
warie
and
skylful
Readers
shall
picke
out
of
the
very
worst
of
them
,
if
they
list
to
take
anie
heede
,
and
reade
them
not
of
an
intent
to
bee
made
the
worse
by
them
,
you
may
sée
by
these
fewe
sentences
,
which
the
foresayd
Sir
Thomas
Elyott
gathered
as
hee
sayth
at
all
auentures
,
intreating
of
the
like
argument
.
First
Plautus
in
commendations
of
vertue
,
hath
such
like
wordes
.
Verely
vertue
doth
all
thinges
excell
,
For
if
liberty
,
health
liuing
or
substaunce
,
Our
Country
our
parents
,
and
children
doo
well
,
It
hapneth
by
vertue
:
she
doth
all
aduaunce
,
Vertue
hath
all
thinges
vnder
gouernaunce
:
And
in
whom
of
vertue
is
founde
great
plenty
,
Any
thing
that
is
good
may
neuer
be
dainty
.
Terence
,
in
Eunucho
hath
a
profitable
spéeche
,
in
blasin●…
forth
the
fashions
of
harlots
,
before
the
eyes
of
young
men
.
Thus
sayth
Parmeno
.
In
thys
thing
I
tryumphe
in
myne
owne
conceite
,
That
I
haue
found
for
all
young
men
the
way
,
Howe
they
of
Harlots
shall
know
the
deceite
,
Their
witts
and
manners
:
that
thereby
they
may
Them
perpetuallie
hate
,
for
so
much
as
they
Out
of
their
owne
houses
be
fresh
and
delicate
,
Feeding
curiously
:
at
home
all
day
Lyuing
beggerlie
in
most
wretched
estate
.
And
many
more
wordes
of
the
same
matter
,
but
which
may
be
gathered
by
these
fewe
.
Ouid
in
his
most
wanton
Bookes
of
loue
,
and
the
remedies
thereof
,
hath
very
many
pithie
and
wise
sentences
,
which
a
beedefull
Reader
may
marke
,
and
chose
out
from
the
other
stuffe
.
This
is
one
.
Tyme
is
a
medicine
if
it
shall
profitt
,
Wine
gyuen
out
of
time
may
be
annoyaunce
.
A
man
shall
irritat
vice
if
he
prohibitt
,
When
time
is
not
meete
vnto
his
vtteraunce
.
Therfore
if
thou
yet
by
counsayle
art
recuperable
,
Fly
thou
from
idlenes
and
euer
be
stable
.
Martiall
,
a
most
dissolute
wryter
among
all
other
,
yet
not
without
many
graue
and
prudent
spéeches
,
as
this
is
one
worthy
to
be
marked
of
these
fond
youthes
which
intangle
theyr
wytts
in
raging
loue
,
who
stepping
once
ouer
shoes
in
theyr
fancyes
,
neuer
rest
plunging
till
they
be
ouer
head
and
eares
in
their
follie
.
If
thou
wylt-eschewe
bitter
aduenture
.
And
auoyde
the
annoyance
of
a
pensifull
hare
,
Set
in
no
one
person
all
wholly
thy
pleasure
,
The
lesse
maist
thou
ioy
,
but
the
lesse
shalt
thou
smart
.
These
are
but
fewe
gathered
out
by
happe
,
yet
sufficient
to
shewe
that
the
wise
and
circumspect
Readers
may
finde
very
many
profitable
lessons
,
dispersed
in
th●…●…orkes
,
neither
take
any
harme
by
reading
such
Poemes
,
but
good
,
if
they
wil
themselues
.
Neuertheles
,
I
would
not
be
thought
to
hold
opinion
,
that
the
reading
of
them
is
so
tollerable
,
as
that
there
neede
no
respect
to
be
had
in
making
choyse
of
readers
or
hearers
:
for
if
they
be
prohibited
from
the
tender
and
vnconstant
wits
of
children
and
young
mindes
,
I
thinke
it
not
without
great
reason
:
neyther
am
I
of
that
deuillish
opinion
,
of
which
some
there
are
,
and
haue
beene
in
England
,
who
hauing
charge
of
youth
to
instruct
them
in
learning
,
haue
especially
made
choyse
of
such
vn
childish
stuffe
,
to
reade
vnto
young
Schollers
,
as
it
shoulde
seeme
of
some
filthy
purpose
,
wylfully
to
corrupt
theyr
tender
mindes
,
and
prepare
them
the
more
ready
for
their
loathsome
dyetts
.
For
as
it
is
sayd
of
that
impudent
worke
of
Luciane
,
a
man
were
better
to
reade
none
of
it
then
all
of
it
,
so
thinke
I
that
these
workes
are
rather
to
be
kept
altogether
from
children
,
them
they
should
haue
frée
liberty
to
reade
them
,
before
they
be
méete
either
of
their
owne
discretion
or
by
héedefull
instruction
,
to
make
choyse
of
the
good
from
the
badde
.
As-for
our
Englishe
Poetrie
,
I
know
no
such
perilous
péeces
(
except
a
fewe
balde
ditties
made
ouer
the
Béere
potts
,
which
are
nothing
lesse
then
Poetry
)
which
anie
man
may
vse
and
reade
without
damage
or
daunger
:
which
indeede
is
lesse
to
be
meruailed
at
among
vs
,
then
among
the
olde
Latines
and
Gréekes
,
Considering
that
Christianity
may
be
a
state
to
such
illecibrous
workes
and
inuentions
,
as
among
them
(
for
their
Arte
sake
)
myght
obtaine
passage
.
Nowe
will
I
speake
some
what
,
of
that
princelie
part
of
Poetrie
,
wherein
are
displaied
the
noble
actes
and
valiant
exploits
of
puissaunt
Captaines
,
expert
souldiers
,
wise
men
,
with
the
famous
reportes
of
auncient
times
,
such
as
are
the
Heroycall
workes
of
Homer
in
Gréeke
,
and
the
heauenly
verse
of
Virgils
AEneidos
in
Latine
:
which
workes
,
comprehending
as
it
were
the
summe
and
grounde
of
all
Poetrie
,
are
verelie
and
incon●…parably
the
best
of
all
other
.
To
these
,
though
wee
haue
no
English
worke
aunswerable
,
in
respect
of
the
glorious
ornaments
of
gallant
handling
:
yet
our
auncient
Chroniclers
and
reporters
of
our
Countrey
affayres
,
come
most
néere
them
:
and
no
doubt
,
if
such
regarde
of
our
English
spéeche
,
and
curious
handling
of
our
verse
,
had
béene
long
since
thought
vppon
,
and
from
time
to
time
béene
pollished
and
bettered
by
men
of
learning
,
iudgement
,
and
authority
,
it
would
ere
this
,
haue
matched
them
in
all
respects
.
A
manifest
example
thereof
,
may
bée
the
great
good
grace
and
swéete
vayne
,
which
Eloquence
hath
attained
in
our
spéeche
,
because
it
hath
had
the
helpe
of
such
rare
and
singuler
wits
,
as
from
time
to
time
myght
still
adde
some
amendment
to
the
same
.
Among
whom
I
thinke
there
is
none
that
.
will
gainsay
,
but
Master
Iohn
Lilly
hath
deserued
moste
high
commendations
,
as
he
which
hath
stept
one
steppe
further
therein
then
any
either
before
or
since
he
first
began
the
wyttie
discourse
of
his
Euphues
.
Whose
workes
,
surely
in
respecte
of
his
singuler
eloquence
and
braue
composition
of
apt
words
and
sentences
,
let
the
learned
examine
and
make
tryall
thereof
thorough
all
the
partes
of
Rethoricke
,
in
fitte
phrases
,
in
pithy
sentences
,
in
gallant
tropes
,
in
flowing
spéeche
,
in
plaine
sence
,
and
surely
in
my
iudgment
,
I
thinke
he
wyll
yéelde
him
that
verdict
,
which
Quintilian
giueth
of
bothe
the
best
Drators
Demosthenes
and
Tully
,
that
from
the
one
,
nothing
may
be
taken
away
,
to
the
other
,
nothing
may
be
added
.
But
a
more
néerer
example
to
prooue
my
former
assertion
true
,
(
I
meane
the
méetnesse
of
our
spéeche
to
receiue
the
best
forme
of
Poetry
)
may
bée
taken
by
conference
of
that
famous
translation
of
Master
D.
Phaer
with
the
coppie
it selfe
,
who
soeuer
please
with
courteous
iudgement
but
a
little
to
compare
and
marke
them
both
together
:
and
weigh
with
himselfe
,
whether
the
English
tongue
might
by
little
and
little
be
brought
to
the
verye
maiesty
of
a
ryght
Heroicall
verse
.
First
you
may
marke
,
how
Virgill
alwayes
●…itteth
his
matter
in
hande
with
wordes
agréeable
vnto
the
same
affection
,
which
he
expresseth
,
as
in
hys
Tragicall
exclamations
,
what
pathe●…all
spéeches
he
frameth
?
in
his
com
fortable
consolations
,
howe
smoothely
hys
verse
runnes
?
in
his
dreadfull
battayles
,
and
●…réery
byckerments
of
warress
,
howe
bygge
and
boystrous
his
wordes
sound
?
and
the
like
notes
in
all
partes
of
his
worke
may
be
obserued
.
Which
excellent
grace
and
comely
kind
of
choyse
,
if
the
translatour
hath
not
hitte
very
neere
in
our
course
English
phrase
iudge
vprightly
:
wee
wyll
conferre
some
of
the
places
,
not
picked
out
for
the
purpose
,
but
such
as
I
tooke
turning
ouer
the
Booke
at
randon
.
When
the
Troyans
were
so
tost
about
in
tempestious
wether
,
caused
by
AEolus
at
AEunoes
request
,
and
driuen
vpon
the
coaste
of
Affrick
with
a
very
néere
scape
of
their
liues
:
AEneas
after
hée
had
gone
a
land
and
kylled
plenty
of
victuals
for
his
company
of
Souldiours
,
hée
deuided
the
same
among
them
,
and
thus
louinglie
and
swéetely
he
comforted
them
.
AEn
.
Lib.
1.
-
et
dictis
moerentia
pectora
mulcet
O
socij
(
neque
ignari
sumus
ante
malorum
)
O
pa●…
grau●…ora
:
dabit
deus
his
quoque
finem
.
Uos
et
scyllaeam
rabiem
,
penitusque
sonantes
,
Accestis
scopulos
:
vos
et
cyclopea
saxa
Experti
,
reuocate
animos
,
maestumque
timorem
Mittite
.
forsan
et
haec
olim
meminisse
i●…uabit
.
Per
varios
casus
,
per
tot
discrimina
rerum
,
Tendimus
in
Latium
:
sedes
vbi
fata
quietas
Ostendunt
,
illic
fas
regna
resurgere
troiae
.
Durate
,
et
vosmet
rebus
seruate
secundis
.
Talia
v●…ce
refert
,
curisque
ingentibus
aeger
Spem
vuliu
simulat
,
premit
altum
corde
dolor●…m
.
Translated
thus
.
And
then
to
chéere
their
heauy
barts
with
these
words
he
him
bent
.
O
Mates
(
quoth
he
)
that
many
a
woe
haue
bidden
and
borne
ere
thvs
,
Worse
haue
we
séene
,
and
this
also
shall
end
when
Gods
wyll
is
.
Through
Sylla
rage
(
ye
wott
)
and
through
the
roaring
rocks
we
past
,
Though
Cyclops
shore
was
full
of
feare
,
yet
came
we
through
at
last
.
Plucke
vppe
your
harts
,
and
driue
from
thence
both
feare
and
care
away
To
thinke
on
this
may
pleasure
be
perhapps
another
day
.
By
paynes
and
many
a
daunger
sore
,
by
sundry
chaunce
we
wend
,
To
come
to
Italy
,
where
we
trust
to
find
our
resting
ende
:
And
where
the
destnyes
haue
decréed
Troyes
kingdome
eft
to
ryse
.
Be
bold
and
harden
now
your
harts
,
take
ease
while
ease
applies
Thus
spake
he
tho
,
but
in
his
hart
huge
cares
had
him
opprest
,
Dissembling
hope
with
outward
eyes
full
heauy
was
his
brest
.
Againe
,
marke
the
wounding
of
Dido
in
loue
with
AEneas
,
with
howe
choyse
wordes
it
is
pithily
described
,
both
by
the
Poet
and
the
translator
in
the
beginning
of
the
fourth
booke
.
At
Regina
graui
iamdudum
saucia
cura
Uulnus
alit
venis
,
et
caeco
carpitur
igni
,
&c.
By
this
time
perced
satte
the
Quéene
so
sore
with
loues
desire
,
Her
wound
in
euery
vayne
she
feedes
,
she
fryes
in
secrete
fire
.
The
manhood
of
the
manfull
oft
,
full
oft
his
famous
lyne
She
doth
reuolue
,
and
from
her
thought
his
face
cannot
vntwyne
.
His
countnaunce
déepe
she
drawes
and
fired
fast
she
beares
in
brest
,
His
words
also
,
nor
to
her
carefull
hart
can
come
no
rest
.
And
in
many
places
of
the
fourth
booke
is
the
same
matter
so
gallantly
prosecuted
in
swéete
wordes
,
as
in
mine
opinion
the
coppy
it selfe
goeth
no
whit
beyond
it
.
Compare
them
likewise
in
the
woefull
and
lamentable
cryes
of
the
Quéene
for
the
departure
of
AEneas
,
towards
the
ende
of
that
Booke
.
Terque
quaterque
manu
pectus
percussa
decorum
,
Flauentesque
abscissa
comas
,
proh
Iupiter
,
ibit
?
Hic
ait
,
●…t
nostris
illuserit
aduena
Regnis
?
&c.
Thrée
times
her
hands
she
bet
,
and
thrée
times
strake
her
comely
brest
,
Her
golden
hayre
she
tare
and
frantiklike
with
moode
opprest
,
She
cryde
,
O
Iupiter
,
O
God
,
quoth
she
,
and
shall
a
goe
?
Indéede
?
and
shall
a
flowte
me
thus
within
my
kingdome
so
?
Shall
not
mine
Armies
out
,
and
all
my
people
them
pursue
?
Shall
they
not
spoyle
their
shyps
and
burne
them
vp
with
vengance
due
?
Out
people
,
out
vppon
them
,
follow
fast
with
fires
and
flames
,
Set
sayles
aloft
,
make
out
with
oares
,
in
ships
,
in
boates
,
in
frames
.
What
speake
I
?
or
where
am
I
?
what
furies
me
doo
thus
inchaunt
?
O
Dydo
,
wofull
wretch
,
now
destnyes
fell
thy
head
dooth
haunt
.
And
a
little
after
preparing
to
kyll
her
owne
selfe
.
But
Dydo
quaking
fierce
with
frantike
moode
and
griefly
hewe
.
With
trembling
spotted
chéekes
,
her
huge
attempting
to
persue
.
Besides
her selfe
for
rage
,
and
towards
death
with
visage
wanne
,
Her
eyes
about
she
rolde
,
as
redde
as
blood
they
looked
than
.
At
last
ready
to
fall
vppon
AEneas
sworde
.
O
happy
(
welaway
)
and
ouer
happy
had
I
béene
,
If
neuer
Troian
shyps
(
ahlas
)
my
Country
shore
had
séene
.
Thus
sayd
she
wryde
her
head
,
and
bereuenged
must
we
die
?
But
let
vs
boldly
die
(
quoth
shée
)
thus
,
thus
to
death
I
ply
.
Nowe
likewise
for
the
braue
warlike
phrase
and
bygge
sounding
kynd
of
thundring
spéeche
,
in
the
hotte
skyrmyshes
of
battels
,
you
may
confer
them
in
any
of
the
last
fiue
Bookes
:
for
examples
sake
,
thys
is
one
a-about
the
ninth
Booke
.
It
clamor
totis
per
propugnacula
muris
,
Intendunt
acries
arcus
,
amentaque
torquent
.
Sternitur
omne
solum
telis
.
tum
scutae
cauaeque
Dant
sonitum
●●ctu
galeae
:
pugna
asper
surgit
?
&c.
A
clamarous
noyse
vpmounts
on
fortresse
tops
and
bulwarks
towers
,
They
strike
,
they
bend
their
bowes
,
they
whirle
from
strings
sharp
shoting
showres
.
All
stréetes
with
fooles
are
strowed
,
than
helmets
,
skulles
,
with
battrings
marro
,
And
shieldess
dishyuering
cracke
,
vpriseth
roughnesse
byckring
hard
.
Looke
how
the
tempest
storme
when
wind
out
wrastling
blowes
at
south
,
Raine
ratling
beates
the
grownde
,
or
clowdes
of
haile
from
Winters
mouth
,
Downe
dashyng
headlong
driues
,
when
God
from
skyes
with
griesly
steuen
,
His
watry
showres
outwrings
,
&
whirlwind
clowdes
downe
breakes
from
heauen
.
And
so
foorth
much
more
of
the
like
effect
.
Onely
one
comparison
more
will
I
desire
you
to
marke
at
your
leysures
,
which
may
serue
for
all
the
rest
,
that
is
,
the
description
of
Fame
,
as
it
is
in
the
4.
booke
,
towardes
the
end
,
of
which
it
followeth
thus
.
Monstrum
horrendum
ingens
cui
quot
sunt
corpore
plumae
Tot
vigilos
oculi
&c.
A
Monster
gastly
great
,
for
euery
plume
her
carkasse
beares
,
Like
number
learing
eyes
she
hath
,
like
number
harkning
eares
.
Like
number
tongues
,
and
mouthes
she
wagges
,
a
wondrous
thing
to
speake
,
At
midnight
foorth
shée
flyes
,
and
vnder
shade
her
sound
dooth
squeake
.
All
night
she
wakes
,
nor
slumber
swéete
doth
take
nor
neuer
sléepes
.
By
dayes
on
houses
tops
shée
sits
or
gates
of
Townes
she
kéepes
.
On
watching
Towres
she
clymbes
,
and
Citties
great
she
makes
agast
,
Both
trueth
and
falshood
forth
she
telles
,
and
lyes
abroade
doth
cast
.
But
what
néede
I
to
repeate
any
more
places
?
there
is
not
one
Booke
among
the
twelue
,
which
wyll
not
yéelde
you
most
excellent
pleasure
in
conferring
the
translation
with
the
Coppie
,
and
marking
the
gallant
grace
which
our
Englishe
spéeche
affoordeth
.
And
in
trueth
the
like
comparisons
,
may
you
choose
out
through
the
whole
translations
of
the
Metamorphosis
by
Master
Golding
who
(
considering
both
their
Coppyes
)
hath
equally
deserued
commendations
for
the
beautifying
of
the
English
spéeche
.
It
would
be
tedious
to
stay
to
rehearse
any
places
out
of
him
nowe
:
let
the
other
suffice
to
prooue
,
that
the
English
tongue
lacketh
neyther
variety
nor
currantnesse
of
phrase
for
any
matter
.
I
Wyll
nowe
spaake
a
little
of
an
other
kinde
of
poetical
writing
,
which
might
notwithstanding
for
the
variablenesse
of
the
argument
therein
vsually
handled
,
bee
comprehended
in
those
kindes
before
declared
:
that
is
,
the
compyling
of
Eglogues
,
as
much
to
say
as
Goteheardes
tales
,
because
they
bee
commonly
Dialogues
or
spéeches
framed
or
supposed
betwéene
Shéepeheardes
,
Neteheardes
,
Goteheardes
,
or
such
like
simple
men
:
in
which
kind
of
writing
,
many
haue
obtained
as
immor
tall
prayse
and
commendation
,
as
in
any
other
.
The
chéefest
of
these
is
Theocritus
in
Gréeke
:
next
him
,
and
almost
the
very
same
,
is
Virgill
in
Latin
.
After
Virgyl
in
like
sort
writ
Titus
Calphurnius
and
Baptista
Mantuan
,
wyth
many
other
both
in
Latine
and
other
languages
very
learnedlye
.
Although
the
matter
they
take
in
hand
séemeth
commonlie
in
appearaunce
rude
and
homely
,
as
the
vsuall
talke
of
simple
clownes
:
yet
doo
they
indéede
vtter
in
the
same
much
pleasaunt
and
profitable
delight
.
For
vnder
these
personnes
,
as
it
were
in
a
cloake
of
simplicitie
,
they
would
eyther
sette
foorth
the
prayses
of
theyr
fréendes
,
without
the
note
of
flattery
,
or
enueigh
grieuously
against
abusess
,
without
any
token
of
bytternesse
.
Somwhat
like
vnto
these
works
,
are
many
péeces
of
Chawcer
,
but
yet
not
altogether
so
poeticall
.
But
nowe
yet
at
the
last
hath
England
hatched
vppe
one
Poet
of
this
sorte
,
in
my
conscience
comparable
with
the
best
in
any
respect
:
euen
Master
Sp
:
Author
of
the
Sheepeheardes
Calender
,
whose
trauell
in
that
péece
of
English
Poetrie
,
I
thinke
verely
is
so
commendable
,
as
none
of
equall
iudgment
can
yéelde
him
lesse
prayse
for
hys
excellent
skyll
,
and
skylfull
excellency
shewed
foorth
in
the
same
,
then
they
would
to
eyther
Theocritus
or
Virgill
,
whom
in
mine
opinion
,
if
the
coursenes
of
our
spéeche
(
I
meane
the
course
of
custome
which
he
woulde
not
infringe
)
had
béene
no
more
let
vnto
him
,
then
theyr
pure
natiue
tongues
were
vnto
them
,
he
would
haue
(
if
it
might
be
)
surpassed
them
.
What
one
thing
is
there
in
them
so
worthy
admiration
,
whereunto
we
may
not
adioyne
some
thing
of
his
,
of
equall
desert
?
Take
Virgil
and
make
some
little
comparison
betwéene
them
,
and
iudge
as
ye
shall
sée
cause
.
Virgill
hath
a
gallant
report
of
Augustus
couertly
comprysed
in
the
first
AEglogue
:
the
like
is
in
him
,
of
her
Maiestie
,
vnder
the
name
of
Eliza.
Virgill
maketh
a
braue
coloured
complaint
of
vnstedfast
fréendshyppe
in
the
person
of
Corydon
:
the
lyke
is
him
in
his
5.
AEglogue
.
Agayne
behold
the
pretty
Pastorall
contentions
of
Virgill
in
the
third
AEglogue
:
of
him
in
the
eight
Eglogue
.
Finally
,
either
in
comparison
with
them
,
or
respect
of
hys
owne
great
learning
,
he
may
well
were
the
Garlande
,
and
steppe
before
the
best
of
all
English
Poets
that
I
haue
séene
or
hearde
:
for
I
thinke
no
lesse
deserueth
(
thus
sayth
E
,
K.
in
hys
commendations
)
hys
wittinesse
in
deuising
,
his
pithinesse
in
vttering
,
his
complaintes
of
loue
so
louely
,
his
discourses
of
pleasure
so
pleasantly
,
his
Pastrall
rudenes
,
his
Morrall
wysenesse
,
his
due
obseruing
of
decorum
euery
where
,
in
personages
,
in
season
,
in
matter
,
in
spéeche
,
and
generally
in
all
sé●…me
ly
simplicity
,
of
handling
hys
matter
and
framing
his
wordes
.
The
occasion
of
his
worke
is
a
warning
to
other
young
men
,
who
being
intangled
in
loue
and
youthful
vanities
,
may
learne
to
looke
to
themselues
in
time
,
and
to
auoyde
inconueniences
which
may
bréede
if
they
be
not
in
time
preuented
.
Many
good
Morrall
lessons
are
therein
contained
,
as
the
reuerence
which
young
men
owe
to
the
aged
in
the
second
Eglogue
:
the
caueate
o●…
warning
to
beware
a
subtill
professor
of
fréendshippe
in
the
fift
Eglogue
:
the
commendation
of
good
Pastors
,
and
shame
and
disprayse
of
idle
&
ambitious
Goteheardes
in
the
seauenth
,
the
loose
and
retchlesse
lyuing
of
Popish
Prelates
in
the
ninth
.
The
learned
and
swéete
complaynt
of
the
contempt
of
learning
vnder
the
name
of
Poetry
in
the
tenth
.
There
is
also
much
matter
vttered
somewhat
couertly
,
especially
the
abuses
of
some
whom
he
would
not
be
too
playne
withall
:
in
which
,
though
it
be
not
apparant
to
euery
one
,
what
hys
speciall
meaning
was
,
yet
so
skilfully
is
it
handled
,
as
any
man
may
take
much
delight
at
hys
learned
conueyance
,
and
picke
out
much
good
sence
in
the
most
obscurest
of
it
.
〈◊〉
notable
prayse
deserued
in
euery
parcell
of
that
worke
,
because
I
cannot
expresse
as
I
woulde
and
as
it
should
:
I
wyll
cease
to
speake
any
more
of
,
the
rather
because
I
neuer
hearde
as
yet
any
that
hath
reade
it
,
which
hath
not
with
much
admiration
commended
it
.
One
only
thing
therein
haue
I
hearde
some
curious
heades
call
in
question
:
viz:
the
motion
of
some
vnsauery
loue
,
such
as
in
the
sitt
Eglogue
he
séemeth
to
deale
with●…
,
(
which
say
they
)
is
skant
allowable
to
English
eares
,
and
might
well
haue
béene
left
for
the
Italian
defenders
of
loathsome
beastlines
,
of
whom
perhappes
he
learned
it
:
to
thys
obiection
I
haue
often
aunswered
and
(
I
thinke
truely
)
that
theyr
nyce
opinion
ouer
shooteth
the
Poets
meaning
,
who
though
hee
in
that
as
in
other
thinges
,
immitateth
the
auncient
Poets
,
yet
doth
not
meane
,
no
more
did
they
before
hym
,
any
disordered
loue
,
or
the
filthy
lust
of
the
deuillish
Pederastice
taken
in
the
worse
sence
,
but
rather
to
shewe
howe
the
dissolute
life
of
young
men
intangled
in
loue
of
women
,
doo
neglect
the
fréendshyp
and
league
with
their
olde
fréendes
and
familiers
.
Why
(
say
they
)
yet
he
shold
gyue
no
occasion
of
suspition
,
nor
offer
to
the
viewe
of
Christians
,
any
token
of
such
filthinesse
,
howe
good
soeuer
hys
meaning
were
:
wherevnto
I
oppose
the
simple
conceyte
they
haue
of
matters
which
concerne
learning
or
wytt
,
wylling
them
to
gyue
Poets
leaue
to
vse
theyr
vayne
as
they
sée
good
:
it
is
their
foolysh
construction
,
not
hys
wryting
that
is
blameable
.
Wée
must
prescrybe
to
no
wryters
,
(
much
lesse
to
Poets
)
in
what
sorte
they
should
vtter
theyr
conceyts
.
But
thys
wyll
be
better
discussed
by
some
I
hope
of
better
abillity
.
One
other
sorte
of
Poeticall
wryters
remayneth
yet
to
bee
remembred
,
that
is
,
The
precepts
of
Husbandry
,
learnedly
compiled
in
Heroycall
verse
.
Such
were
the
workes
of
Hesiodus
in
Greeke
,
and
Virgils
Georgickes
in
Latine
.
What
memorable
worke
hath
beene
handled
in
immitation
of
these
by
any
English
Poet
,
I
know
not
,
(
saue
onely
one
worke
of
M.
Tusser
,
a
péece
surely
of
great
wytt
and
experience
,
and
wythal
very
prettilye
handled
)
And
I
thinke
the
cause
why
our
Poets
haue
not
trauayled
in
that
behalfe
,
is
especially
,
for
that
there
haue
béene
alwayes
plenty
of
other
wryters
that
haue
handled
the
same
argument
very
largely
.
Among
whom
Master
Barnabe
Googe
,
in
translating
and
enlarging
the
most
profitable
worke
of
Heresbachius
,
hath
deserued
much
commendation
,
as
well
for
hys
faythfull
compyling
and
learned
increasing
the
noble
worke
,
as
for
hys
wytty
translation
of
a
good
part
of
the
Georgickes
of
Virgill
into
English
verse
.
Among
all
the
translations
,
which
hath
béene
my
fortune
to
sée
,
I
could
neuer
yet
finde
that
worke
of
the
Georgicks
wholly
performed
.
I
remember
once
Abraham
Flemming
in
hys
conuersion
of
the
Eglogues
,
promised
to
translate
and
publishe
it
:
whether
he
dyd
or
not
I
knowe
not
,
but
as
yet
I
heard
not
of
it
.
I
my selfe
wott
well
I
bestowed
some
time
in
it
two
or
thrée
yeeres
since
,
turning
it
to
that
same
English
verse
,
which
other
such
workes
were
in
,
though
it
were
rudely
:
howe
be
it
,
I
did
it
onely
for
mine
owne
vse
,
and
vppon
certayne
respectes
towardes
a
Gentleman
mine
especiall
fréende
,
to
whom
I
was
desirous
to
shewe
some
token
of
duetifull
good
wyll
,
and
not
minding
it
should
goe
farre
abroade
,
considering
howe
slenderly
I
ranne
it
ouer
:
yet
since
then
,
hath
one
gott
it
in
kéeping
,
who
as
it
is
told
me
,
eyther
hath
or
wyll
vnaduisedly
publishe
it
:
which
iniury
though
he
meanes
to
doo
me
in
myrth
,
yet
I
hope
he
wyll
make
me
some
suffycient
recompence
,
or
els
I
shall
goe
néere
to
watch
hym
the
like
or
a
worse
turne
.
But
concerning
the
matter
of
our
Englysh
wryters
,
lett
thys
suffice
:
nowe
shall
ye
heare
my
simple
skyl
in
what
I
am
able
to
say
concerning
the
forme
and
manner
of
our
Englyshe
verse
.
The
most
vsuall
and
frequented
kind
of
our
English
Poetry
hath
alwayes
runne
vpon
,
and
to
this
day
is
obserued
in
such
equall
number
of
syllables
,
and
likenes
of
wordes
,
that
in
all
places
one
verse
either
immediatly
,
or
by
mutuall
interpo●…tion
,
may
be
aunswerable
to
an
other
both
in
proportion
of
length
,
and
ending
of
lynes
in
the
same
Letters
.
Which
rude
kinde
of
verse
,
though
(
as
I
touched
before
)
it
rather
discrediteth
our
spéeche
,
as
borrowed
from
the
Barbarians
,
then
furnisheth
the
same
with
any
comely
ornament
:
yet
béeing
so
ingraffed
by
custome
,
and
frequented
by
the
most
parte
,
I
may
not
vtterly
dissalowe
it
,
least
I
should
séeme
to
call
in
question
the
iudgement
of
all
our
famous
wryters
,
which
haue
wonne
eternall
prayse
by
their
memorable
workes
compyled
in
that
verse
.
For
my
part
therefore
,
I
can
be
content
to
estéeme
it
as
a
thing
,
the
perfection
whereof
is
very
commendable
,
yet
so
as
wyth
others
I
could
wysh
it
were
by
men
of
learning
and
ability
bettered
,
and
made
more
artificiall
,
according
to
the
woorthines
of
our
spéeche
.
The
falling
out
of
verses
together
in
one
like
sounde
,
is
commonly
called
in
English
,
Kyme
,
taken
from
the
Greeke
worde
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
which
surely
in
my
iudgment
is
verye
abusiuelye
applyed
to
such
a
sence
:
and
by
thys
,
the
vnworthinesse
of
the
thing
may
well
appeare
,
in
that
wanting
a
proper
name
,
wherby
to
be
called
,
it
borroweth
a
word
farre
exéeding
the
dignitye
of
it
,
and
not
appropriate
to
so
rude
and
base
a
thing
.
For
Ryme
is
properly
,
the
iust
proportion
of
a
clause
or
sentence
,
whether
it
be
in
prose
or
méeter
,
aptly
comprised
together
:
wherof
there
is
both
an
naturall
and
an
artificiall
composition
,
in
any
manner
or
kynde
of
spéeche
,
eyther
French
,
Italian
,
Spanish
,
or
English
:
and
is
propper
not
onely
to
Poets
,
but
also
to
Readers
,
Oratours
,
Pleaders
,
or
any
which
are
to
pronounce
or
speake
any
thing
in
publike
audience
.
The
first
begynning
of
Ryme
(
as
we
nowe
terme
it
)
though
it
be
some
what
auncient
,
yet
nothing
famous
.
In
Greece
(
they
say
)
one
Symias
Rhodias
,
because
he
would
be
singuler
in
somthing
,
wryt
poetically
of
the
Fable
,
contayning
howe
Iupiter
béeing
in
shape
of
a
Swanne
,
begatte
the
Egge
on
Leda
,
wherof
came
Castor
,
Pollux
,
and
Helena
,
whereof
euery
verse
ended
in
thys
Ryme
,
and
was
called
therefore
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
:
but
thys
foolyshe
attempt
was
so
contemned
and
dispysed
,
that
the
people
would
neither
admitte
the
Author
nor
Booke
any
place
in
memory
of
learning
.
Since
that
it
was
not
hearde
of
,
till
that
time
the
Hunnes
and
Gothians
renued
it
agayne
,
and
brought
it
into
Italie
.
But
howsoeuer
or
wheresoeuér
it
beganne
,
certayne
it
is
,
that
in
our
English
tongue
it
beareth
as
good
grace
,
or
rather
better
,
then
in
any
other
:
and
is
a
faculty
whereby
many
may
and
doo
deserue
great
prayse
and
commendation
,
though
our
spéeche
be
capable
of
a
farre
more
learned
manner
of
versifying
,
as
I
wyl
partly
declare
héereafter
.
There
be
thrée
speciall
notes
necessary
to
be
obserued
in
the
framing
of
our
accustomed
English
Ryme
:
the
first
is
,
that
one
méeter
or
verse
be
aunswerable
to
an
other
,
in
equall
number
of
féete
or
syllables
,
or
proportionable
to
the
tune
whereby
it
is
to
be
reade
or
measured
.
The
seconde
,
to
place
the
words
in
such
sorte
,
as
none
of
them
be
wrested
contrary
to
the
naturall
inclination
or
affectation
of
the
same
,
or
more
truely
the
true
quantity
thereof
.
The
thyrd
,
to
make
them
fall
together
mutually
in
Ryme
,
that
is
,
in
wordes
of
like
sounde
,
but
so
as
the
wordes
be
not
disordered
for
the
Rymes
sake
,
nor
the
sence
hindered
.
These
be
the
most
pryncipall
obseruations
,
which
I
thinke
requisite
in
an
English
verse
:
for
as
for
the
other
ornaments
which
belong
thereto
,
they
be
more
properly
belonging
to
the
seuerall
gyfts
of
skylfull
Poets
,
then
common
notes
to
be
prescribed
by
me
:
but
somewhat
perhaps
I
shall
haue
occasion
to
speake
héereafter
.
Of
the
kyndes
of
English
verses
which
differ
in
number
of
syllables
,
there
are
almost
infinite
:
which
euery
way
alter
according
to
hys
fancy
,
or
to
the
measure
of
that
méeter
,
wherein
it
pleaseth
hym
to
frame
hys
ditty
.
Of
the
best
and
most
frequented
I
wyll
rehearse
some
.
The
longest
verse
in
length
,
which
I
haue
séene
vsed
in
English
consisteth
of
sixtéene
syllables
,
eache
two
verses
ryming
together
,
thus
.
Wher
vertue
wants
&
vice
abounds
,
there
wealth
is
but
a
bayted
hooke
,
To
make
men
swallow
down
their
bane
,
before
on
danger
deepe
they
looke
.
Thys
kynde
is
not
very
much
vsed
at
length
thus
,
but
is
commonly
deuided
,
eche
verse
into
two
,
whereof
eche
shal
containe
eyght
syllables
,
and
ryme
crosse
wyse
,
the
first
to
the
thyrd
,
and
the
second
to
the
fourth
,
in
thys
manner
.
Great
wealth
is
but
a
bayted
hooke
,
Where
vertue
wants
,
and
vice
aboundes
:
Which
men
deuoure
before
they
looke
,
So
them
in
daungers
deepe
it
drownes
.
An other
kynd
next
in
length
to
thys
,
is
,
where
eche
verse
hath
fourtéene
syllables
,
which
is
the
most
accustomed
of
all
other
,
and
especially
vsed
of
all
the
translatours
of
the
Latine
Poets
for
the
most
part
thus
.
My
mind
with
furye
fierce
inflamde
of
late
I
know
not
howe
,
Doth
burne
Pernassus
hyll
to
see
,
adornd
wyth
Lawrell
bowe
.
Which
may
likewyse
and
so
it
often
is
deuyded
,
eche
verse
into
two
,
to
first
hauing
eyght
sillables
,
the
second
sixe
,
wherof
the
two
sixes
shall
alwayes
ryme
,
and
sometimes
the
eyghtes
,
sometimes
not
,
according
to
the
wyll
of
the
maker
.
My
minde
with
furye
fierce
inflamde
,
Of
late
I
knowe
not
howe
:
Doth
burne
Pernassus
hyll
to
see
,
Adornd
wyth
Lawrell
bowe
.
There
are
nowe
wythin
this
compasse
,
as
many
sortes
of
verses
as
may
be
deuised
differences
of
numbers
:
wherof
some
consist
of
equall
proportions
,
some
of
long
and
short
together
,
some
of
many
rymes
in
one
staffe
(
as
they
call
it
)
some
of
crosse
ryme
,
some
of
counter
ryme
,
some
ryming
wyth
one
worde
farre
distant
from
another
,
some
ryming
euery
thyrd
or
fourth
word
,
and
so
likewyse
all
manner
of
dytties
applyable
to
euery
tune
that
may
be
sung
or
sayd
,
distinct
from
prose
or
continued
spéeche
.
To
auoyde
therefore
tediousnesse
and
confusion
,
I
wyll
repeate
onely
the
different
sortes
of
verses
out
of
the
Sheepeheardes
Calender
,
which
may
well
serue
to
beare
authoritie
in
thys
matter
.
There
are
in
that
worke
twelue
or
thirtéene
sundry
sorts
of
verses
,
which
differ
eyther
in
length
,
or
ryme
,
of
destinction
of
the
staues
:
but
of
them
which
differ
in
length
or
number
of
sillables
not
past
sixe
or
seauen
.
The
first
of
them
is
of
tenne
sillables
,
or
rather
fiue
féete
in
one
verse
,
thus
.
A
Shéepheards
boy
no
better
doo
him
call
,
When
Winters
wastfull
spight
was
almost
spent
.
Thys
verse
he
vseth
commonly
in
hys
swéete
complayntes
,
and
mornefull
ditties
,
as
very
agréeable
to
such
affections
.
The
second
sort
hath
naturally
but
nine
syllables
,
and
is
a
more
rough
or
clownish
manner
of
verse
,
vsed
most
commonly
of
him
if
your
mark
him
in
hys
satyricall
reprehensions
,
thys
Shéepeheardes
homelyest
talke
,
such
as
the
second
AEglogue
is
.
Ah
for
pitty
wyll
rancke
Winters
rage
,
These
bytter
blasts
neuer
gynne
to
asswage
.
The
number
of
nine
sillables
in
thys
verse
is
very
often
altered
,
and
so
it
may
without
any
disgrace
to
the
same
,
especially
where
the
spéeche
should
be
most
clownish
and
simple
,
which
is
much
obserued
of
hym
.
The
third
kynd
is
a
pretty
rounde
verse
,
running
currantly
together
,
commonly
seauen
sillables
or
sometime
eyght
in
one
verse
,
as
many
in
the
next
,
both
ryming
together
:
euery
two
hauing
one
the
like
verse
after
them
,
but
of
rounder
wordes
,
and
two
of
them
likewyse
ryming
mutually
.
That
verse
expresseth
notably
,
light
and
youthfull
talke
,
such
as
is
the
thyrde
AEglogue
betwéene
two
Shéepheardes
boyes
concerning
loue
.
Thomalin
why
sitten
we
so
As
weren
ouerwent
with
woe
Upon
so
fayre
a
morrowe
?
The
ioyous
time
now
nigheth
fast
That
wyll
allay
this
bitter
blast
And
stake
the
Winter
sorrow
.
The
fourth
sort
containeth
in
eche
staffe
manie
vnequall
verses
,
but
most
swéetelie
falling
together
:
which
the
Poet
calleth
the
tune
of
the
waters
fall
.
Therein
is
his
song
in
prayse
of
Eliza.
Ye
daintie
Nymphes
which
in
this
blessed
brooke
doo
bathe
your
brest
,
Forsake
your
watrie
bowres
and
hether
looke
,
at
my
request
.
And
eke
yée
Uirgins
that
on
Parnass
dwell
,
Whence
floweth
Helicon
the
learned
Well
,
helpe
me
to
blaze
her
woorthy
praise
That
in
her
sex
doth
all
excell
.
&c.
The
fift
,
is
a
deuided
verse
of
twelue
sillables
into
two
verses
,
whereof
I
spake
before
,
and
séemeth
most
méete
for
the
handling
of
a
Morrall
matter
,
such
as
is
the
praise
of
good
Pastors
,
and
the
dispraise
of
ill
in
the
seauenth
AEglogue
.
The
sixt
kinde
,
is
called
a
round
,
béeing
mutuallie
sung
betwéene
two
:
one
singeth
one
verse
,
the
other
the
next
,
eche
rymeth
with
himselfe
.
Per.
It
fell
vppon
a
holie
eue
,
Wyl
.
Hey
ho
holliday
Per.
When
holie
fathers
wont
to
shrieue
,
Wyl
.
Thus
ginneth
our
Kondelay
.
&c.
The
seauenth
sorte
is
a
verie
tragicall
mournefull
measure
,
wherein
he
bewayleth
the
death
of
some
fréend
vnder
the
person
of
Dydo
.
Up
then
Melpomene
the
mournfulst
Muse
of
nyne
,
such
cause
of
mourning
neuer
hadst
afore
:
Up
grie●…y
ghostes
,
and
vp
my
mournfull
ryme
:
matter
of
myrth
now
stalt
thou
haue
no
more
.
Dydo
my
déere
alas
is
dead
,
Dead
and
lyeth
wrapt
in
leade
:
O
heause
hearse
Let
streaming
teares
be
powred
out
in
store
.
O
carefull
vearse
.
These
sortes
of
verses
for
breuities
sake
haue
I
chosen
foorth
of
him
,
whereby
I
shall
auoide
the
tedious
rehearsall
of
all
the
kindes
which
are
vsed
:
which
I
thinke
would
haue
béene
vnpossible
,
seeing
they
may
be
altered
to
as
manie
formes
as
the
Poets
please
:
neither
is
there
anie
tune
or
stroke
which
may
be
sung
or
plaide
on
instruments
,
which
hath
not
some
poetical
ditties
framed
according
to
the
numbers
thereof
:
some
to
Rogero
,
some
to
Trenchmore
,
to
downe
right
Squire
,
to
Galliardes
,
to
Pauines
,
to
Iygges
,
to
Brawles
,
to
all
manner
of
tunes
which
euerie
Fidler
knowes
better
then
my selfe
,
and
therefore
I
will
let
them
passe
.
Againe
,
the
diuersities
of
the
staues
(
which
are
the
number
of
verses
contained
with
the
diuisions
or
partitions
of
a
ditty
)
doo
often
times
make
great
differences
in
these
verses
.
As
when
one
staffe
containeth
but
two
verses
,
or
(
if
they
bee
deuided
)
foure
:
the
first
or
the
first
couple
hauing
twelue
sillables
,
the
other
fourteene
,
which
versifyers
call
Powlters
measure
,
because
so
they
talle
their
wares
by
dosens
.
Also
,
when
one
staffe
hath
manie
verses
,
whereof
eche
one
rimeth
to
the
next
,
or
mutuallie
crosse
,
or
distant
by
thrée
,
or
by
foure
,
or
ended
contrarye
to
the
beginning
,
and
a
hundred
sortes
,
whereof
to
shewe
seuerall
examples
,
would
bée
too
troublesome
:
nowe
for
the
second
point
.
The
naturall
course
of
most
English
verses
séemeth
to
run
vppon
the
olde
Iambicke
stroake
,
and
I
may
well
thinke
by
al
likelihoode
,
it
had
the
beginning
thereof
.
For
if
you
marke
the
right
quantitie
of
our
vsuall
verses
,
ye
shall
perceiue
them
to
containe
in
sound
the
very
propertie
of
Iambick
féete
,
as
thus
.
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I
that
my
slender
oaten
pipe
in
verse
was
wont
to
sounde
:
For
transpose
anie
of
those
féete
in
pronouncing
,
and
make
short
either
the
two
,
foure
,
sixe
,
eight
,
tenne
,
twelue
sillable
,
and
it
will
(
doo
what
you
can
)
fall
out
very
absurdly
.
Againe
,
though
our
wordes
can
not
well
bee
forced
to
abyde
the
touch
of
Position
and
other
rules
of
Prosodia
,
yet
is
there
such
a
naturall
force
or
quantity
in
eche
worde
,
that
it
will
not
abide
anie
place
but
one
,
without
some
foule
disgrace
:
as
for
example
try
anie
verse
.
as
thys
.
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Of
shapes
transformde
to
bodies
strange
I
purpose
to
intreate
.
Make
the
first
sillable
long
,
or
the
third
,
or
the
fift
&
so
foorth
:
or
contrariwise
make
the
other
sillables
to
admitte
the
shortnesse
of
one
of
them
places
,
and
sée
what
a
wonderfull
defacing
it
wil
be
to
the
wordes
.
as
thus
.
¯
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¯
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¯
˘
Of
strange
bodies
transformd
to
shapes
purpose
I
to
intreate
.
So
that
this
is
one
especiall
thing
to
be
taken
héede
of
in
making
a
good
English
verse
,
that
by
displacing
no
worde
bee
wrested
against
his
naturall
propriety
,
wherevnto
you
shal
perceyue
eche
worde
to
be
affected
,
and
may
easilie
discerne
it
in
wordes
of
two
sillables
or
aboue
,
though
some
there
be
of
indifferencie
,
that
wyll
stand
in
any
place
.
Againe
,
in
chouching
the
whole
sentence
,
the
like
regarde
is
to
be
had
,
that
wee
excéede
not
too
boldly
in
placing
the
verbe
out
of
his
order
,
and
too
farre
behinde
the
nowne
:
which
the
necessitie
of
Ryme
may
oftentimes
vrge
.
For
though
it
be
tollerable
in
a
verse
to
sette
wordes
so
extraordinarily
as
other
spéeche
will
not
admitt
,
yet
héede
is
to
be
taken
,
least
by
too
much
affecting
that
manner
,
we
make
both
the
verse
vnpleasant
and
the
sence
obscure
.
And
sure
it
is
a
wonder
to
sée
the
folly
of
manie
in
this
respect
,
that
vse
not
onely
too
much
of
thys
ouerthwart
placing
,
or
rather
displacing
of
wordes
,
in
theyr
Poemes
and
verses
,
but
also
in
theyr
prose
or
continued
writings
:
where
they
thinke
to
rolle
most
smoothlie
,
and
flow
most
eloquently
,
there
by
this
means
,
come
foorth
theyr
sentences
dragging
at
one
Authors
tayle
as
they
were
tyde
together
with
poynts
,
where
often
you
shall
tarrie
(
scratching
your
heade
)
a
good
space
before
you
shall
heare
hys
principall
verbe
or
speciall
word
,
leaste
hys
singing
grace
,
which
in
his
sentence
is
contained
should
be
lesse
,
and
his
spéeche
séeme
nothing
poeticall
.
The
thyrd
obseruation
is
,
the
Ryme
or
like
ending
of
verses
:
which
though
it
is
of
least
importance
,
yet
hath
won
such
credite
among
vs
,
that
of
all
other
it
is
most
regarded
of
the
greatest
part
of
Readers
.
And
surely
as
I
am
perswaded
,
the
regarde
of
wryters
to
this
,
hath
béene
the
greatest
decay
of
that
good
order
of
versifying
,
which
might
ere
this
haue
béene
established
in
our
spéeche
.
In
my
iudgment
,
if
there
be
any
ornament
in
the
same
,
it
is
rather
to
be
attributed
to
the
plentifull
fulnesse
of
our
spéeche
,
which
can
affoorde
ryming
words
sufficient
for
the
handling
of
any
matter
,
then
to
the
thing
it selfe
for
any
beautifying
it
bringeth
to
a
worke
:
which
might
bee
adorned
with
farre
more
excellent
collours
then
ryming
is
.
Not
withstanding
I
cannot
but
yéelde
vnto
it
(
as
custome
requireth
)
the
deserued
prayses
,
especially
where
it
is
with
good
indgement
ordered
.
And
I
thinke
them
right
worthy
of
admi
ration
,
for
their
readines
and
plenty
of
wytt
and
capacity
,
who
can
with
facility
intreate
at
large
,
and
as
we
call
it
extempore
,
in
good
and
sencible
ryme
,
vppon
some
vnacquainted
matter
.
The
ready
skyll
of
framing
anie
thing
in
verse
,
besides
the
naturall
promptnesse
which
many
haue
therevnto
,
is
much
helped
by
Arte
,
and
erercise
of
the
memory
:
for
as
I
remember
,
I
reade
once
among
Gaskoynes
workes
,
a
little
instruction
to
versifying
,
where
is
prescribed
as
I
thinke
thys
course
of
learning
to
versifye
in
Ryme
.
When
ye
haue
one
verse
well
setled
,
and
decently
ordered
which
you
may
dispose
at
your
pleasure
,
to
ende
it
with
what
word
you
wyll
:
then
what
soeuer
the
word
is
,
you
may
spéedilie
runne
ouer
the
other
wordes
which
are
aunswerable
thereunto
,
(
for
more
readines
through
all
the
letters
Alphabetically
)
whereof
ro●…
may
choose
that
which
wyll
best
fitte
the
sence
of
your
matter
in
that
place
:
as
for
example
:
if
your
last
worde
ende
in
Booke
,
you
may
straightwayes
in
your
minde
runne
them
ouer
thus
.
Brooke
,
Cooke
,
crooke
,
hooke
,
looke
,
nooke
,
pooke
,
rooke
,
forsooke
,
tooke
,
awooke
.
&c.
Nowe
it
is
twenty
to
one
,
but
alwayes
one
of
these
shall
iumpe
with
your
former
worde
and
matter
in
good
sence
.
If
not
,
then
alter
the
first
.
And
indéede
I
thinke
,
that
next
to
the
Arte
of
memory
,
thys
is
the
readyest
way
to
attaine
to
the
faculty
of
ryming
well
Ertempore
,
especially
if
it
be
helped
with
thus
much
paynes
.
Gather
together
all
manner
of
wordes
especially
Monasillables
,
and
place
them
Alphabetically
in
some
note
,
and
either
haue
them
méetely
perfectly
by
hart
(
which
is
no
verye
laboursome
matter
)
or
but
looke
them
dilligently
ouer
at
some
time
,
practising
to
ryme
indifferent
often
,
whereby
I
am
perswaded
it
wil
soone
be
learned
,
so
as
the
party
haue
withall
any
reasonable
gyft
of
knowledge
and
learning
,
whereby
hee
want
not
bothe
matter
and
wordes
altogether
.
What
the
other
circumstaunces
of
Ryming
are
,
as
what
wordes
may
tollerably
be
placed
in
Ryme
,
and
what
not
:
what
words
doo
best
become
a
Ryme
,
and
what
not
,
how
many
sortes
of
Ryme
there
is
:
and
such
like
I
wyll
not
stay
nowe
to
intreate
.
There
be
many
more
obseruations
and
notes
to
be
prescribed
,
to
the
exacte
knowledge
of
versifying
,
which
I
trust
wil
be
better
and
larger
laide
forth
by
others
,
to
whom
I
deferre
manie
considerations
in
this
treatise
:
hoping
that
some
of
greater
skill
will
shortlie
handle
this
matter
in
better
sorte
.
Nowe
the
sundry
kindes
of
rare
deuises
,
and
pretty
inuentions
which
come
from
the
fine
poeticall
baine
of
manie
in
strange
and
vnacustomed
manner
,
if
I
could
report
them
,
it
were
worthie
my
trauell
:
such
are
the
turning
of
verses
:
the
infolding
of
wordes
:
the
fine
repititions
:
the
clarklie
conueying
of
contraries
,
and
manie
such
like
.
Whereof
though
I
coulde
sette
downe
manie
:
yet
because
I
want
bothe
manie
and
the
best
kindes
of
them
,
I
will
ouerpasse
:
onelie
pointing
you
to
one
or
two
which
may
suffice
for
example
.
Looke
vppon
the
rufull
song
of
Colin
sung
by
Cuddie
in
the
Sheepheardes
Calender
,
where
you
shall
sée
a
singuler
rare
deuise
of
a
dittie
framed
vpon
these
sixe
wordes
Woe
,
sounde
,
cryes
,
pact
,
sleep
,
augment
,
which
are
most
prettilie
turned
and
wounde
vppe
mutually
together
,
expressing
wonderfully
the
dolefulnesse
of
the
song
.
A
deuise
not
much
vnlike
vnto
the
same
,
is
vsed
by
some
,
who
taking
the
last
wordes
of
a
certaine
number
of
verses
,
as
it
were
by
the
rebound
of
an
Echo
,
shall
make
them
fall
out
in
some
prettie
sence
.
Of
this
sorte
there
are
some
deuised
by
Iohn
Graunge
,
which
because
they
be
not
long
I
wyll
rehearse
one
.
If
feare
oppresse
howe
then
may
hope
me
shielde
?
Denyall
sayes
,
vayne
hope
hath
pleased
well
,
But
as
such
hope
thou
wouldest
not
be
thine
,
So
would
I
not
the
like
to
rule
my
hart
.
For
if
thou
louest
it
bidds
thee
graunt
forthwith
Which
is
the
ioy
whereof
I
liue
in
hope
.
Héere
if
you
take
the
last
worde
of
euerie
verse
,
and
place
them
orderlie
together
,
you
shall
haue
this
sentence
:
Shielde
well
thyne
hart
with
hope
.
But
of
these
Echoes
I
knowe
in
déede
verie
daintie
péeces
of
worke
,
among
some
of
the
finest
Poets
this
day
in
London
:
who
for
the
rarenesse
of
them
〈◊〉
them
priuelie
to
themselues
,
and
wil
not
let
them
come
abroad
.
A
like
inuention
to
the
last
rehearsed
,
or
rather
a
better
,
haue
I
séene
often
practised
in
framing
a
whole
dittie
to
the
Letters
of
ones
name
,
or
to
the
wordes
of
some
two
or
thrée
verses
which
is
very
witty
,
as
for
example
this
is
one
of
W.
Hunnis
,
which
for
the
shortnes
I
rather
chusde
then
some
that
are
better
.
If
thou
desire
to
liue
in
quiet
rest
,
Gyue
care
and
see
,
but
say
the
best
.
These
two
verses
are
nowe
as
it
were
resolued
into
dyuers
other
,
euery
two
wordes
or
sillables
being
the
beginning
of
an
other
like
verse
,
in
this
sort
.
If
thou
delight
in
quietnes
of
life
,
Desire
to
shunne
from
brawles
,
debate
and
strife
:
To
liue
in
loue
with
GOD
,
with
freend
and
foe
,
In
rest
shalt
sleepe
when
other
cannot
so
.
Gyue
eare
to
all
,
yet
doo
not
all
beleeue
,
And
see
the
end
and
then
thy
sentence
gyue
:
But
say
For
trueth
of
happy
liues
assignde
The
best
hath
he
that
quiet
is
in
minde
.
Thus
are
there
infinite
sortes
of
fine
conueiances
(
as
they
may
be
termed
)
to
be
vsed
,
and
are
much
frequented
by
versifyers
,
as
well
in
composition
of
their
verse
,
as
the
wittines
of
their
matter
:
which
all
I
will
referre
to
the
consideration
of
euerie
pleasant
headded
Poet
in
their
proper
gifts
:
onelie
I
sett
●…ne
these
fewe
sortes
of
their
formes
of
versifying
,
which
may
stand
in
stéede
to
declare
what
manie
others
may
be
deuised
in
like
sorte
.
〈◊〉
●…ne
to
procéede
to
the
reformed
kind
of
English
verse
which
manie
haue
before
this
,
attempted
to
put
in
practise
,
and
to
establish
for
an
accustomed
right
among
English
Poets
,
you
shall
heare
in
like
manner
my
simple
iudgment
concerning
the
same
.
I
am
fully
and
certainlie
perswaded
,
that
if
the
true
kind
of
versifying
in
immitation
of
Gréekes
and
Latines
,
had
béene
practised
in
the
English
tongue
,
and
put
in
vre
from
time
to
tyme
by
our
Poets
,
who
might
haue
continually
béene
mending
and
pollyshing
the
same
,
euery
one
according
to
their
seuerall
gifts
:
it
would
long
ere
this
haue
aspyred
to
as
full
perfection
,
as
in
anie
other
tongue
whatsoeuer
.
For
why
may
I
not
thinke
so
of
our
English
,
séeing
that
among
the
Romaines
a
long
time
,
yea
euen
till
the
dayes
of
Tully
,
they
estéemed
not
the
Latine
Poetrie
almost
worth
any
thing
,
in
respecte
of
the
Gréeke
,
as
appeareth
in
the
Oration
pro
Archia
Poeta
:
yet
afterwardes
it
increased
in
credite
more
and
more
,
and
that
in
short
space
:
so
that
in
Virgilles
time
,
wherein
were
they
not
comparable
with
the
Gréekes
?
So
likewise
,
now
it
séemeth
not
currant
for
an
English
verse
to
runne
vpon
true
quantity
,
and
those
féete
which
the
Latines
vse
,
because
it
is
straunge
,
and
the
other
barbarous
custome
,
béeing
within
compasse
of
euery
base
witt
,
hath
worne
it
out
of
credite
or
estimation
.
But
if
our
wryters
,
béeing
of
learning
and
iudgment
,
would
rather
infringe
thys
curious
custome
,
then
omitte
the
occasion
of
inlarging
the
credite
of
their
natiue
spéeche
,
and
theyr
owne
prayses
,
by
practising
that
commendable
kind
of
wryting
in
true
verse
:
then
no
doubt
,
as
in
other
partes
of
learning
,
so
in
Poetry
,
shoulde
not
stoupe
to
the
best
of
them
all
in
all
maner
of
ornament
and
comlinesse
.
But
some
obiect
that
our
wordes
are
nothing
resemblaunt
in
nature
to
theirs
,
and
therefore
not
possible
to
bee
framed
with
any
good
grace
after
their
vse
:
but
cannot
we
then
as
well
as
the
Latines
did
,
alter
the
cannon
of
the
rule
according
to
the
quallity
of
our
worde
,
and
where
our
wordes
and
theyrs
wyll
agrée
,
there
to
iumpe
with
them
,
where
they
w●…l
not
agrée
,
there
to
establish
a
rule
of
our
owne
to
be
directed
by
?
Likewise
,
for
the
tenor
of
the
verse
might
we
not
(
as
Horace
dyd
in
the
Latine
)
alter
their
proportions
to
what
sortes
w●…
li●…ed
,
and
to
what
we
sawe
wold
best
become
the
nature
of
the
thing
bandled
,
or
the
quallity
of
the
words
?
Surely
it
is
to
be
thought
that
if
any
one
,
of
sound
iudgment
and
learning
,
shoulde
putt
foorth
some
famous
worke
,
contayning
dyuers
formes
of
true
verses
,
fitting
the
measures
,
according
to
the
matter
:
it
would
of
it selfe
be
a
sufficient
authority
without
any
prescription
of
rules
,
to
the
most
part
of
Poets
,
for
them
to
follow
and
by
custome
to
ratify
.
For
sure
it
is
,
that
the
rules
and
principles
of
Poetry
,
were
not
precisly
followed
and
obserued
of
the
first
beginners
and
wryters
of
Poetry
,
but
were
selected
and
gathered
seuerally
out
of
theyr
workes
,
for
the
direction
and
behoofe
of
their
followers
.
And
indéede
,
he
that
shall
with
héedefull
iudgment
make
tryall
of
the
English
wordes
,
shall
not
finde
them
so
grosse
or
vnapt
,
but
that
they
wyll
become
any
one
of
the
most
accustomed
sortes
of
Latine
or
Gréeke
verses
méetely
,
and
run
thereon
somewhat
currantly
I
my selfe
,
with
simple
skyll
I
●…onfesse
,
and
farre
vnable
iudgment
,
haue
●…entured
on
a
fewe
,
which
notwithstanding
the
rudenes
of
them
may
serue
to
shewe
what
better
might
bée
brought
into
our
spéeche
,
if
those
which
are
of
méete
abilitye
woulde
bestowe
some
trauell
and
endeuour
thereuppon
.
But
before
I
sette
them
downe
,
I
wyll
speake
somewhat
of
such
abseruations
as
I
could
gather
necessary
to
the
knowledge
of
these
kinde
of
verses
,
least
I
should
séeme
to
runne
vpon
them
rashly
,
without
regarde
either
of
example
or
authority
.
The
speciall
poyntes
of
a
true
verse
,
are
the
due
obseruations
of
the
féete
,
and
place
of
the
féete
.
The
foote
of
a
verse
,
is
a
measure
of
two
sillables
,
or
of
thrée
,
distinguished
by
time
which
is
eyther
long
or
short
.
A
foote
of
two
sillables
,
is
eyther
simple
or
mixt
,
that
is
,
of
like
time
or
of
diuers
.
A
simple
foote
of
two
sillables
is
likewise
twofolde
,
eyther
of
two
long
sillables
called
Spondaeus
,
as
¯
¯
goodnesse
,
or
of
two
short
called
Pyrrichius
as
˘
˘
hyther
.
A
myxt
foote
of
2.
sillables
,
is
eyther
of
one
short
and
one
long
called
Iambus
as
˘
¯
dying
:
or
of
one
long
and
one
short
,
called
Choreus
as
¯
˘
gladly
.
A
foote
of
3.
sillables
in
like
sorte
is
either
simple
or
myxt
.
The
simple
is
eyther
Molossus
,
that
is
of
thrée
long
,
as
¯
¯
¯
forgiuenes
:
or
Trochaeus
,
that
is
of
3.
short
,
as
˘
˘
˘
merylie
.
The
mixt
is
of
6.
diuers
sortes
,
1.
Dactylus
,
of
one
long
,
and
two
short
,
as
¯
˘
˘
happily
.
2.
Anapaestus
,
of
two
shorte
,
and
one
long
,
as
˘
˘
¯
tauelers
.
3.
Bacchius
,
of
one
short
,
and
two
long
,
as
˘
¯
¯
remembrers
.
4.
Palimbachius
,
of
two
long
,
and
one
short
,
as
¯
¯
˘
accorded
.
5.
Creticus
of
a
long
,
a
short
,
and
a
long
,
as
¯
˘
¯
daungerous
.
6.
Amphibrachus
,
of
a
short
,
a
long
,
and
a
short
,
as
˘
¯
˘
reioyced
.
Many
more
deuisions
of
féete
are
vsed
by
some
,
but
these
doo
more
artificially
comprehende
all
quantities
necessary
to
the
skannning
of
any
verse
,
according
to
Tallaeus
in
hys
Kethorique
.
The
place
of
the
féete
is
the
disposing
of
them
in
theyr
propper
roomes
,
whereby
may
be
discerned
the
difference
of
eche
verse
which
is
the
right
numbring
of
the
same
.
Now
as
for
the
quantity
of
our
wordes
,
therein
lyeth
great
difficultye
,
and
the
chéefest
matter
in
this
faculty
.
For
in
truth
there
being
such
diuersity
betwixt
our
words
&
the
Latine
,
it
cannot
stande
indéede
with
great
reason
that
they
shoulde
frame
,
wée
béeing
onelie
directe●…
by
such
rules
as
serue
for
onely
Latine
words
,
yet
notwithstanding
one
may
well
perceiue
by
these
fewe
,
that
these
kinde
of
verses
would
well
become
the
spéeche
,
if
so
●…ee
there
were
such
Rules
prescribed
,
as
woulde
admitt
the
placing
of
our
aptest
and
fullest
wordes
together
.
For
indéede
excepting
a
fewe
,
if
our
Monasyllables
,
which
naturally
shoulde
most
of
them
be
long
,
we
haue
almost
none
,
that
wyll
stande
●…tlie
in
a
short
foote
:
and
therfore
if
some
exception
were
made
against
the
precise
obseruation
of
Position
,
and
certaine
other
of
the
rules
,
then
might
we
haue
as
great
plenty
and
choyse
of
good
woordes
to
furnish
&
sette
foorth
a
verse
,
as
in
any
other
tongue
.
Likewise
if
there
were
some
derection
in
such
wordes
,
as
fall
not
within
the
compasse
of
Gréeke
or
Latine
rules
,
it
were
a
great
helpe
,
and
thereof
I
had
great
misse
in
these
few
which
I
made
.
Such
as
is
the
last
sillable
in
these
wordes
,
able
,
noble
,
or
possible
and
such
like
:
againe
for
the
nature
and
force
of
our
W.
of
our
th
,
of
our
oo
,
and
ee
,
of
our
wordes
which
admytte
an
e
in
the
ende
after
one
or
two
Consonantes
,
and
many
other
.
I
for
my
part
,
though
(
I
must
néedes
confesse
)
many
faultes
escaped
me
in
these
fewe
,
yet
looke
I
as
good
héede
as
I
coulde
,
and
in
trueth
did
rather
alwaies
omitt
the
best
wordes
and
such
as
would
naturally
become
the
spéech
best
,
them
I
wolde
committe
any
thing
,
which
shoulde
notoriously
impugne
the
Latine
rules
,
which
herein
I
had
onely
for
my
direction
.
Indéede
most
of
our
Monasyllables
I
am
forced
to
make
short
,
to
supply
the
want
of
many
short
wordes
requisite
in
these
verses
.
The
Participle
A
,
being
but
the
English
article
adioyned
to
Nownes
,
I
alway●…
make
short
,
both
alone
&
in
●…ōposition
,
and
like
wise
the
wordes
of
one
sillable
ending
in
E.
as
the
,
when
it
is
an
article
,
he
,
she
,
ye
,
&c.
we
I
thinke
should
néedes
be
alwayes
long
because
we
pronounce
continually
We
.
I
,
beeing
alone
standing
for
the
Pronowne
Ego
,
in
my
iudgment
might
well
be
vsed
common
:
but
because
I
neuer
sawe
it
vsed
but
short
I
so
obserued
it
.
Words
ending
in
y
I
make
short
without
doubt
,
sauing
that
I
haue
marked
in
others
one
difference
which
they
vse
in
the
same
,
that
is
to
make
it
short
in
the
ende
˘
of
an
Aduerb
,
as
gladly
,
and
long
in
the
ende
˘
of
an
Adiectiue
as
goodly
:
but
the
reason
is
as
I
take
it
,
because
the
Adiectiue
is
or
should
be
most
commonly
written
thus
goodlie
.
O
,
béeing
an
Aduerbe
is
naturally
long
:
in
the
ende
of
wordes
both
Monasyllables
and
other
I
thinke
it
may
be
vsed
common
.
The
first
of
Pollisyllables
I
directed
according
to
the
nature
of
the
worde
,
as
I
thought
most
aunswerable
to
Latine
examples
,
sauing
that
somewhere
I
am
constrayned
to
straine
curtesy
with
the
preposition
of
a
worde
compounded
or
such
like
,
which
breaketh
no
great
square
:
as
in
defence
or
depart
,
&c.
The
myddle
sillables
which
are
not
very
many
,
come
for
the
most
part
vnder
the
precinct
of
Position
,
whereof
some
of
them
will
not
possibly
abide
the
touch
,
and
therfore
must
néedes
be
a
little
wrested
:
such
are
commonly
the
Aduerbs
of
thrée
sillables
,
as
mourn
fully
,
spyghtfully
and
such
like
words
,
deriued
of
this
Adiectiue
,
full
:
and
therfore
if
there
be
great
occasion
to
vse
them
,
they
must
be
reformed
by
detracting
onely
(
l
)
&
then
they
stand
méetely
currant
,
as
mournfuly
.
The
last
sillables
I
wholly
directed
so
néere
as
I
could
to
the
touch
of
common
rules
.
The
most
famous
verse
of
all
the
rest
,
is
called
Hexametrum
Epicum
,
which
consisteth
of
sixe
féete
,
wherof
the
first
foure
are
indifferently
either
Spondaei
or
Dactyli
,
the
fift
is
euermore
a
dactyl
,
and
the
sixt
a
Spondae
,
as
thus
.
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Tyterus
happily
thou
liest
tumbling
vnder
a
beetchtree
.
Thys
kinde
of
verse
I
haue
onely
séene
to
be
practised
in
our
English
spéeche
:
and
indéede
wyll
stand
somewhat
more
order
lye
therein
then
any
of
the
other
kindes
,
vntill
we
haue
some
tolleration
of
wordes
made
by
speciall
rule
.
The
first
that
attempted
to
practise
thys
verse
in
English
,
should
séeme
to
be
the
Earle
of
Surry
,
who
translated
some
part
of
Virgill
into
verse
indéede
,
but
without
regard
of
true
quantity
of
sillables
.
There
is
one
famous
Distichon
,
which
is
common
in
the
monthes
of
all
men
,
that
was
made
by
one
Master
Watson
,
fellowe
of
S.
Iohns
Colledge
in
Cambrydge
about
40.
yéeres
past
,
which
for
the
swéetnes
and
gallantnes
therof
in
all
respects
doth
math
&
surpasse
the
Latine
coppy
of
Horace
,
which
he
made
out
of
Homers
wordes
,
qui
mores
hominum
,
&c.
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All
trauellers
doo
gladlie
report
great
praise
of
Ulisses
:
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For
that
he
knewe
manie
mens
maners
,
and
saw
many
citties
.
Which
two
verses
if
they
be
examined
throughout
all
the
rules
and
obseruations
of
the
best
versifying
,
shall
bee
founde
to
attaine
the
very
perfection
of
them
all
.
There
bee
two
other
not
much
inferiour
to
these
,
which
I
found
in
the
Glosse
of
E.
K.
vppon
the
fift
AEglogue
of
the
newe
Poet
:
which
Tully
translated
out
of
Gréeke
into
Latine
,
Haec
habui
quae
edi
&c.
All
that
I
eate
did
I
ioy
and
all
that
I
greedilie
gorged
.
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As
for
those
manie
goodlie
matters
left
I
for
others
.
Which
though
they
wyll
not
abide
the
touch
of
Synalaepha
in
one
or
two
places
,
yet
perhappes
some
English
rule
which
might
wyth
good
reason
be
established
,
would
make
them
currant
enough
,
and
auoyde
that
inconuenience
which
is
very
obuious
in
our
wordes
.
The
great
company
of
famous
verses
of
thys
sort
,
which
Master
Haruey
made
,
is
not
vnknowne
to
any
and
are
to
be
viewed
at
all
times
.
I
for
my
part
,
so
farre
as
those
examples
would
leade
me
,
and
mine
owne
small
skyll
affoorde
me
,
haue
blundered
vppon
these
fewe
,
whereinto
I
haue
translated
the
two
first
AEglogues
of
Virgill
:
because
I
thought
no
matter
of
mine
owne
inuention
,
nor
any
other
of
antiquitye
more
fitte
for
tryal
of
thys
thing
,
before
there
were
some
more
speciall
direction
,
which
might
leade
to
a
lesse
troublesome
manner
of
wryting
.
The
Argument
of
the
first
AEglogue
.
Vnder
the
personne
of
Tityrus
Vyrgill
beeing
figured
himselfe
,
declareth
to
Melibeus
an nother
Neateheard
,
the
great
benefittes
that
he
receyued
at
Augustus
hand
,
who
in
the
spoyle
of
Mantua
gaue
him
hys
goods
and
substaunce
againe
.
Melibaeus
.
and
Tityrus
.
TItyrus
,
happilie
thou
lyste
tumbling
vnder
a
beech
tree
,
All
in
a
fine
oate
pipe
these
sweete
songs
lustilie
chaunting
:
We
,
poore
soules
goe
to
wracke
,
and
from
these
coastes
be
remooued
,
And
fro
our
pastures
sweete
:
thou
Tityr
,
at
ease
in
a
shade
plott
Makst
thicke
groues
to
resound
with
songes
of
braue
Amarillis
.
Tityrus
.
O
Melibaeus
,
he
was
no
man
but
a
God
who
releeude
me
:
Euer
he
shal
be
my
God
:
from
this
same
Sheepcot
his
alters
Neuer
,
a
tender
Lambe
shall
want
,
with
blood
to
bedew
them
.
This
good
gift
did
he
giue
,
to
my
steeres
thus
freelie
to
wander
,
And
to
my selfe
(
thou
seest
)
on
pipe
to
resound
what
I
listed
.
Melibaeus
.
Grutch
thee
sure
I
doo
not
,
but
this
thing
makes
me
to
wonder
,
Whence
comes
all
this
adoo
:
with
grieeuous
paine
not
a
little
Can
I
remooue
my
Goates
:
here
,
Tityre
skant
get
I
forward
Poore
olde
crone
,
two
twyns
at
a
clappe
i
th
boysterous
hasilles
Left
she
behind
,
best
hope
i'
my
flock
laid
hard
on
a
bare
stone
.
Had
not
a
lucklesse
lotte
possest
our
mindes
,
I
remember
Warnings
oft
fro
the
blast
burnt
oake
we
saw
to
be
sent
vs
.
Oft
did
a
left
hand
crow
foretell
these
thinges
in
her
hull
tree
,
But
this
God
let
vs
heare
what
he
was
,
good
Tityre
tell
me
.
Tityrus
.
That
same
Cittie
so
braue
which
Rome
was
wont
to
be
called
,
Foole
did
I
thinke
,
to
be
like
this
of
ours
,
where
we
to
the
pastures
Wonted
were
to
remooue
from
dammes
our
young
prettie
Cattell
.
Thus
did
I
thinke
young
whelpes
,
&
Kids
to
be
like
to
the
mothers
,
Thus
did
I
wont
compare
manie
great
thinges
with
many
little
.
But
this
aboue
all
townes
as
loftily
mounteth
her
high
head
,
As
by
the
lowe
base
shrubbes
tall
Cypresse
shooteth
aboue
them
.
Melibaeus
.
And
what
did
thee
mooue
that
needes
thou
must
goe
to
see
Rome
?
Tityrus
.
Freedome
:
which
though
late
,
yet
once
lookt
backe
to
my
pore
state
,
After
time
when
haires
from
my
beard
did
ginne
to
be
whitish
:
Yet
lookt
back
at
last
and
found
me
out
after
a
long
time
.
When
Amarill
was
once
obtainde
,
Galatea
departed
:
For
(
for
I
will
confesse
)
whilst
as
Galatea
did
hold
mee
,
Hope
did
I
not
for
freedome
,
and
care
had
I
none
to
my
cattell
.
Though
manie
faire
young
beastes
our
folde
for
the
aulters
aforded
And
manie
cheeses
good
fro
my
presse
were
sent
to
the
Cittie
:
Seldome
times
did
〈◊〉
bring
anie
store
of
pence
fro
the
markett
.
Melibaeus
.
O
Amarill
,
wherefore
,
to
thy
Gods
(
very
much
did
I
meruaile
)
Heauilie
thou
didst
praie
:
ripe
fruites
vngathered
all
still
:
Tityrus
is
not
at
home
:
these
Pyne
trees
Tityre
mist
thee
.
Fountaines
longd
for
thee
:
these
hedgrowes
wisht
thy
return
bome
Tityrus
.
Wh●…t
was
then
to
be
doone
?
from
bondage
could
not
I
wind
out
:
Neither
I
could
haue
found
such
gentle
Gods
any
where
els
.
There
did
I
see
(
Melibaee
)
that
youth
whose
hestes
I
by
course
still
Fortnights
whole
to
obserue
on
the
Alters
sure
will
I
not
faile
.
Thus
did
he
gentlie
graunt
to
my
sute
when
first
I
demaunded
.
Keepe
your
heardes
poore
slaues
as
erst
,
let
bulles
to
the
makes
still
.
Melibaeus
.
Happy
olde
man
,
then
thou
shalt
haue
thy
farme
to
remaine
still
,
Large
and
large
to
thy selfe
,
others
nought
but
stonie
grauell
:
And
foule
slymie
rush
where
with
their
lees
be
besprinkled
.
Heere
no
vnwoonted
foode
shall
grieue
young
theaues
who
be
laded
,
Nor
the
infections
foule
of
neighbours
flocke
shall
annoie
them
.
Happie
olde
man
.
In
shaddowy
bankes
and
coole
prettie
places
,
Heere
by
the
quainted
floodes
and
springs
most
holie
remaining
.
Here
,
these
quicksets
fresh
which
lands
seuer
out
fro
thy
neighbors
And
greene
willow
rowes
which
Hiblae
bees
doo
reioice
in
,
Oft
fine
whistring
noise
,
shall
bring
sweete
sleepe
to
thy
sences
.
Vnder
a
Rock
side
here
will
proyner
chaunt
merrie
ditties
.
Neither
on
highe
Elme
trees
,
thy
beloude
Doues
loftilie
sitting
,
Nor
prettie
Turtles
trim
,
will
cease
to
crooke
with
a
good
cheere
.
Tityrus
.
First
,
therefore
swift
buckes
shall
flie
for
foode
to
the
skies
ward
,
And
from
fish
with
drawn
broade
seas
themselues
shal
auoid
hence
:
First
,
(
both
borders
broke
)
Araris
shal
run
to
the
Parthanes
,
And
likewise
Tygris
shall
againe
runne
backe
to
the
Germanes
:
Ere
his
countnaunce
sweete
shall
slippe
once
out
from
my
hart
roote
.
Melibaeus
.
UUe
poore
soules
,
must
some
to
the
land
eald
Affrica
packe
hence
.
Some
to
the
farre
Scythia
,
and
some
must
to
the
swift
flood
Oaxis
.
Some
to
Britannia
coastes
quite
parted
farre
fro
the
whole
world
.
Oh
these
pastures
pure
shall
I
nere
more
chance
to
behold
yee
?
And
our
cottage
poore
with
warme
turues
couerd
about
trim
.
Oh
these
trim
tilde
landes
,
shall
a
rechlesse
souldier
haue
them
?
And
shall
a
Barbarian
haue
this
croppe
?
see
what
a
mischiefe
Discord
vile
hath
araisde
?
for
whom
was
our
labour
all
tooke
?
Now
Melibaee
ingraft
pearie
stocks
,
sette
vines
in
an
order
.
Now
goe
(
my
braue
flocke
once
that
were
)
O
now
goe
my
kidlings
.
Neuer
againe
shall
I
now
in
a
greene
bowre
sweetelie
reposed
See
ye
in
queachie
briers
farre
a
loofe
clambring
on
a
high
hill
.
Now
shall
I
sing
no
Iygges
,
nor
whilst
I
doo
fall
to
my
iunkets
.
Shall
ye
my
Goates
,
cropping
sweete
flowres
&
leaues
sit
about
me
.
Tityrus
.
Yet
thou
maist
tarrie
heere
,
and
keepe
me
companie
this
night
,
All
on
a
leauie
couch
:
good
Aples
ripe
I
doo
not
lacke
,
Chestnutts
sweete
good
store
,
and
plentie
of
curddes
will
I
set
theé
.
Marke
i'
the
Towne
how
chimnie
tops
doo
beginne
to
be
smoaking
,
And
fro
the
Mountaines
high
how
shaddowes
grow
to
be
larger
.
The
seconde
AEglogue
called
Alexis
.
The
Argument
.
Virgill
in
the
personne
of
Corydon
as
some
thinke
,
complayneth
that
he
is
not
so
gratious
with
Augustus
as
he
would
bee
:
or
els
it
is
to
be
referred
to
a
youth
Alexander
,
which
was
giuen
him
of
Asinius
Pollio
,
whom
he
blameth
for
the
vnstedfastnes
of
his
witt
and
wandring
appetite
,
in
refusing
the
freendly
counsayle
which
he
vsed
to
giue
him
.
THat
Sheepheard
Corydon
did
burne
in
loue
with
Alexis
,
All
his
masters
deare
:
and
nought
had
he
whereby
to
hope
for
.
Onely
in
beechen
groues
,
and
dolesome
shaddowy
places
.
Dailie
resorted
he
:
there
these
rude
disordered
outcryes
,
Hylles
and
desert
woodes
throughout
thus
mournfully
tuned
.
O
hard
harted
Alex
,
hast
thou
no
regard
to
my
sweete
song
?
Pyttiest
me
not
a
whitt
:
yea
makst
me
nowe
that
I
shall
dye
.
Yet
doo
the
beastes
find
out
fine
shades
and
trim
pretty
coole
plottes
,
And
fro
the
sun
beames
safe
lie
lyzardes
vnder
a
bush●…ufte
:
And
for
workmen
toughe
with
boyling
heate
so
beparched
,
Garlick
sauery
sweete
and
coole
hearbes
plenty
be
dressed
.
But
,
by
the
scorcht
banke
sydes
i'
thy
foote
steppes
stil
I
goe
plodding
.
Hedgerowes
hott
doo
resound
with
Grashops
mournfully
squeaking
.
O
had
I
not
ben
better
abyd
Amarillis
her
anger
?
And
her
proude
disdaine
?
yea
better
abyde
my
Menalcas
?
What
though
brown
did
he
seeme
?
yea
what
though
thou
be
so
gallant
O
thou
fine
chery
cheekt
child
trust
not
t'much
to
thy
beauty
.
Black
violetts
are
tooke
when
dayses
white
be
refused
.
Me
thou
dost
despise
vnknowne
to
thy selfe
yet
Alexis
:
What
be
my
riches
great
in
neate
,
in
milke
what
aboundance
.
In
Sicill
hylles
be
my
Lambes
of
which
there
wander
a
thousand
.
All
times
,
colde
and
hoteyet
fresh
milke
neuer
I
wanted
.
Such
be
my
Musicke
notes
,
as
(
when
his
flockes
he
recalling
)
Amphion
of
Dirce
did
vse
on
shore
Aracynthus
.
Much
mishapt
I
am
not
,
for
late
in
a
bancke
I
behelde
me
,
When
still
seas
were
calme
,
to
thy
Daphnis
neede
not
I
giue
place
No
,
though
thou
be
the
iudge
,
if
pictures
haue
any
credite
.
O
were
thou
content
to
remaine
with
me
by
the
downes
heere
,
In
these
lodgings
small
,
and
helpe
me
proppes
to
put
vnder
,
And
trym
kydling
flocke
with
me
to
driue
to
the
greene
fieldes
:
Pan
in
singing
sweete
with
me
shouldst
brauely
resemble
:
Pan
,
was
first
the
inuenter
,
pypes
to
adioyne
in
an
order
:
Pan
,
poore
flockes
and
Sheepheardes
to
most
duly
regardeth
.
Those
fine
lips
thou
needst
not
feare
to
bruse
with
a
sweete
pype
:
What
did
Amynt
forsake
i'th
is
excercise
to
be
cunning
?
One
pype
with
seauene
sundry
stops
matcht
sweetly
together
.
Haue
I
my selfe
,
Damaetas
which
at
s
death
he
bequeathd
me
,
And
sayd
,
heere
,
thou
art
now
the
second
which
euer
hath
ought
it
.
So
sayd
Damaetas
:
but
Amyntas
spightfully
scornde
it
.
Also
,
two
pretty
small
wyld
kyddes
,
most
goodlie
bespotted
Haue
I
,
that
heere
i'
the
dales
doo
runne
skant
safe
I
doo
feare
me
.
Twyce
in
a
day
two
teates
they
suck
:
for
thee
will
I
keepe
them
.
Wondrous
faine
to
haue
had
them
both
was
Thestylis
of
late
:
And
so
she
shall
:
for
I
see
thou
scornst
whatso-euer
I
giue
thee
.
Come
hyther
O
thou
sweete
face
boy
:
see
see
,
to
thy selfe
heere
How
fayre
Nymphes
in
baskets
full
doo
bring
manie
Lillies
:
White
violets
sweete
Nais
plucks
and
bloomes
fro
the
Poppies
,
Narcyss
,
and
dyll
flowres
most
sweete
that
sauoureth
also
.
Casia
,
broade
mary
Goldes
,
with
pancyes
,
and
Hyacinthus
.
And
I
my selfe
rype
peaches
soft
as
silke
will
I
gather
.
And
such
Chestnutts
as
Amarill
was
wont
to
reioyce
at
.
Ploms
wyll
I
bring
likewise
:
that
fruite
shall
be
honored
also
.
And
ye
O
Lawrell
twygges
shal
I
croppe
,
and
myrte
thy selfe
next
.
For
ye
be
wont
,
(
bound
both
in
a
bunch
)
most
sweetely
to
sauour
.
Thou
art
but
a
Clowne
Corydon
:
these
gifts
esteemes
not
Alexis
:
Nor
by
thy
gifts
to
obtaine
art
meete
to
incounter
Iolas
.
Wretch
,
(
ahlas
)
what
s
this
that
I
wish
?
south
blasts
to
the
yong
flowers
Or
cleere
crystall
streames
with
loath
some
swyne
to
be
troubled
?
Ah
mad
boy
from
whom
doost
runne
?
why
Gods
i
the
woods
dwelt
:
And
Paris
erst
of
Troy
:
Pallas
most
gladly
reioyseth
,
In
these
bowres
:
and
in
trym
groues
we
all
chiefely
delight
vs
.
Grym
Lyonesse
doth
course
curst
wolues
,
so
wolues
doo
the
kydlinges
.
And
these
wantou
Kyddes
likewise
these
faire
Cytisus
flowers
.
Thee
Corydon
(
O
Alex
)
some
pleasure
euery
wight
pulles
.
See
these
yoked
steeres
fro
the
plough
nowe
seeme
to
be
lett
loose
.
And
these
shaddowes
large
doo
declare
thys
sun
to
depart
hence
Styll
I
doo
burne
in
loue
.
What
meane
in
loue
to
be
lookt
for
?
Ah
Corydon
Corydon
,
what
raging
fury
dooth
haunt
thee
,
Halfe
cropt
downe
be
thy
vynes
and
broade
brauncht
elmes
ouerhang
them
.
Rather
about
some
needefull
worke
now
busy
thy selfe
well
,
Either
on
Osyers
tuffe
or
bulrush
weaue
pretty
basketts
.
And
if
Alexis
scorne
thee
still
,
mayst
hope
for
another
.
FINIS
.
I
durst
not
enterpryse
to
goe
any
further
with
this
rude
translation
:
béeing
for
the
respects
aforesayd
a
troublesome
and
vnpleasant
peece
of
labour
:
And
therefore
these
shall
suffice
till
further
occasion
shall
serue
to
imploy
some
profitable
paynes
in
this
behalfe
.
The
next
verse
in
dignity
to
the
Hexameters
,
is
the
Carmen
Elegiacum
which
consisteth
of
foure
féete
&
two
od
sillables
:
viz:
the
two
first
feete
,
eyther
Dactyli
or
Spondaei
indifferent
,
the
one
long
sillable
:
next
two
Dactyli
and
an
other
long
sillable
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doo
measure
it
in
this
sorte
(
and
more
truely
yet
not
so
readily
to
all
)
accounting
first
two
indifferently
either
Dactyli
or
Spondaei
,
then
one
Spondaei
&
two
Anapaesti
.
But
it
commeth
all
to
one
reckoning
.
Thys
verse
is
alwayes
vnseperably
adioyned
vnto
the
Hexameter
,
and
serueth
especially
to
the
handling
of
loue
and
dalliances
,
whereof
it
taketh
the
name
.
It
will
not
frame
altogether
so
currantlye
in
our
English
as
the
other
,
because
the
shortnesse
of
the
seconde
Penthimimer
will
hardly
be
framed
to
fall
together
in
good
sence
,
after
the
Latine
rules
.
I
haue
not
séene
very
many
of
them
made
by
any
:
and
therefore
one
or
two
for
example
sake
shall
be
sufficient
.
This
Distichon
out
of
Ouid.
Ingenium
quondam
fuerat
pretiosius
auro
,
At
nunc
barbaria
est
grandis
habere
nihil
.
May
thus
be
translated
.
Learning
once
was
thought
to
be
better
then
any
gold
was
,
Now
he
that
hath
not
wealth
is
but
a
barbarian
.
And
thys
.
Omnia
sunt
hominum
tenui
pendentia
filo
:
Et
subito
casu
quae
valuere
ruunt
.
T
is
but
a
slender
thread
,
which
all
mens
states
do
depend
on
:
And
most
goodly
thinges
quickly
doo
fall
to
decay
.
As
for
the
verses
Phalocium
and
Iambicum
,
I
haue
not
as
yet
made
any
tryall
in
them
:
but
the
Sapphic
I
assure
you
,
in
my
iudgment
wyl
doo
very
pretty
,
if
that
wants
which
I
speake
were
once
supplied
.
For
tryall
of
which
I
haue
turned
the
new
Poets
swéete
song
of
Eliza
into
such
homely
Sapphick
as
I
coulde
.
Thys
verse
consisteth
of
these
fiue
féete
,
one
Chore
,
one
spondae
,
one
dactyl
,
and
two
Choreis
,
with
this
addition
,
that
after
euery
third
verse
be
sette
one
Adonium
verse
,
which
consisteth
of
a
dactyl
and
a
spondae
.
It
is
more
troublesome
and
tedious
to
frame
in
our
spéeche
by
reason
they
runne
without
difference
,
euery
verse
being
a
like
in
quantity
throughout
,
yet
in
my
iudgement
standeth
méetely
well
in
the
same
.
I
pray
looke
the
Coppy
which
I
haue
translated
in
the
fourth
AEglogue
of
the
Sheepheardes
Calender
:
that
song
of
Colins
making
which
Hobbinoll
singeth
in
prayse
of
the
Quéenes
maiesty
,
vnder
the
name
of
Eliza.
YE
dainty
Nymphcs
that
in
this
blessed
brooke
,
doo
bathe
your
brest
:
Forsake
your
watry
bowres
and
hether
looke
,
at
my
request
:
And
onely
you
Uirgins
that
on
Parnass
dwell
.
Whence
floweth
Helicon
the
learned
well
,
helpe
me
to
blase
her
worthy
praise
That
in
her
ser
doth
all
excell
.
Of
fayre
Eliza
be
your
siluer
song
that
blessed
wight
:
The
flowre
of
Uirgins
,
may
she
flourish
long
,
in
princely
plight
.
For
she
is
Syrinx
daughter
without
spott
,
Which
Pan
the
Shéepheards
God
on
her
begot
:
so
sprang
her
grace
,
of
heauenly
race
,
No
mortall
blemish
may
her
blott
.
Sée
where
she
sittes
.
&c
,
The
Saphick
verse
.
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O
ye
Nymphes
most
fine
who
resort
to
this
brooke
,
For
to
baths
there
your
pretty
breasts
at
all
times
:
Leaue
the
watrish
bowres
,
hyther
and
to
me
come
at
my
request
nowe
.
And
ye
Uirgins
trymme
who
resort
to
Parnass
,
Whence
the
learned
well
Helicon
beginneth
:
Helpe
to
blase
her
worthy
deserts
,
that
all
els
mounteth
aboue
farre
.
Nowe
the
siluer
songes
of
Eliza
sing
yée
,
Princely
wight
whose
peere
not
among
the
virgins
Can
be
found
:
that
long
she
may
remaine
among
vs
.
now
let
vs
all
pray
.
For
Syrinx
daughter
she
is
,
of
her
begotten
Of
the
great
God
pan
,
thus
of
heauen
aryseth
,
All
her
exlent
race
:
any
mortall
harde
happe
cannot
aproche
her
.
Sée
,
she
sittes
most
séemely
in
a
grassy
gréene
plott
,
Cl●…thed
in
wéedes
méete
for
a
princely
mayden
,
Boste
with
Ermines
white
,
in
a
goodly
scarlett
brauely
beséeming
.
Decked
is
that
crowne
that
vpon
her
head
standes
With
the
red
Rose
and
many
Daffadillies
.
Bayes
,
the
Primrose
and
violetts
,
be
sette
by
:
how
ioyfull
a
sight
is
t
.
Say
,
behold
did
ye
euer
her
Angelike
face
,
Like
to
Phaebe
fayre
?
or
her
heauenly
hauour
,
And
the
princelike
grace
that
in
her
remaineth
?
haue
yée
the
like
séene
?
Medled
is
t
red
rose
with
a
white
together
Which
in
either
chéeke
do
depeinct
a
trymme
chéere
,
Her
maiestie
and
eye
to
behold
so
comely
,
her
like
who
remembreth
?
Phaebus
once
péept
foorth
with
a
goodly
guilt
hewe
,
For
to
gaze
:
but
when
he
sawe
the
bright
beames
Spread
abroade
fro'her
face
with
a
glorious
grace
,
it
did
amaze
him
.
When
another
sunne
he
behelde
belowe
héere
,
Blusht
he
red
for
shame
,
nor
againe
be
durst
looke
:
Would
he
durst
bright
beames
of
his
owne
with
hers
match
,
for
to
be
vanquisht
.
Shew
thy selfe
now
Cynthia
with
thy
cléere
rayes
,
And
behold
her
:
neuer
abasht
be
thou
so
:
When
she
spreades
those
beames
of
her
heauenly
beauty
,
how
thou
art
in
a
dump
dasht
?
But
I
will
take
heede
that
I
match
not
her
grace
,
With
the
Laton
seede
,
Niobe
that
once
did
,
Nowe
she
doth
therefore
in
a
stone
repent
:
to
all
other
a
warning
.
Pan
be
may
well
boaste
that
he
did
begit
her
Such
a
noble
wight
,
to
Syrinx
is
it
ioy
,
That
she
found
such
lott
with
a
bellibone
trym
for
to
be
loaden
.
When
my
younglinges
first
to
the
dammes
doo
bleat
out
,
Shall
a
milke
white
Lambe
to
my
Lady
be
offred
:
For
my
Goddesse
shée-is
yea
I
my selfe
her
Heardgrome
though
but
a
rude
Clowne
.
Unto
that
place
Caliope
dooth
high
her
,
Where
my
Goddesse
shines
:
to
the
same
the
Muser
After
her
with
sw●…te
●…iolincs
about
them
chéerefully
tracing
.
Is
not
it
Bay
braunche
that
aloft
in
handes
they
haue
,
Eune
to
giue
them
sure
to
my
Lady
Eliza
:
D
so
sweete
they
play-and
to
the
same
doo
sing
too
heaunly
to
heare
ist.
Sée
,
the
Graces
trym
to
the
stroake
doo
foote
it
,
Deftly
dauncing
,
and
meriment
doo
make
them
,
Sing
to
the-instruments
to
reioyce
the
more
.
but
wants
not
a
fourth
grace
?
Then
the
daunce
wyll
be
eune
,
to
my
Lady
therefore
Shal
be
geune
that
place
,
for
a
grace
she
shall
be
For
to
fill
that
place
that
among
them
in
heaune
,
●…e
may
be
receiued
.
Thys
beuy
of
bright
Nymphes
,
whether
is
t
goe
they
now
?
Raunged
all
thus
fine
in
a
rowe
together
?
They
be
Ladies
all
i'
the
Lake
behight
soe
?
they
thether
all
goe
.
One
that
is
there
chiefe
that
among
the
rest
goes
,
Called
is
Chores
of
Olyues
she
beares
a
Goodly
Crownett
,
méete
for
a
Prince
that
in
peace
euer
abideth
.
All
ye
Shéepheardes
maides
that
about
the
gréene
dwell
,
Speede
ye
there
to
her
grace
,
but
among
ye
take
héede
All
be
Uirgins
pure
that
aproche
to
deck
her
,
duetie
requireth
.
When
ye
shall
present
ye
before
her
in
place
,
Sée
ye
not
your selues
doo
demeane
too
rudely
:
Bynd
the
●…llets
:
and
to
be
fine
the
waste
gyrt
fast
with
a
tawdryne
Bring
the
Pinckes
therewith
many
Gelliflowres
swéete
,
And
the
Cullambynes
:
let
vs
haue
the
Wlynesops
,
With
the
Cornation
that
among
the
loue
laddes
wentes
to
be
worne
much
.
Daffadowndillies
all
a
long
the
ground
strowe
,
And
the
Cowslyppe
with
a
prety
paunce
let
héere
lye
.
Kyngcuppe
and
Lillies
so
beloude
of
all
men
.
And
the
deluce
flowre
.
One
verse
there
remaineth
vntransilated
as
yet
,
-
with
some
other
of
this
sorte
,
which
I
meant
to
haue
finished
,
but
by
reason
of
some
let
which
I
had
,
I
am
constrained
to
defer
to
some
other
time
,
when
I
hope
to
gratify
the
Readers
with
more
and
better
verses
of
this
sort
:
for
in
trueth
I
am
perswaded
a
little
paine
taking
might
furnish
our
spéeche
with
as
much
pleasaunt
delight
in
this
kinde
of
verse
,
as
any
other
whatsoeuer
.
Heere
followe
the
Cannons
or
generall
cautions
of
Poetry
,
prescribed
by
Horace
,
first
gathered
by
Georgius
Frabricius
Cremnicensis
:
which
I
thought
good
to
annex
to
thys
Trearise
,
as
very
necessary
obseruations
to
be
marked
of
all
Poets
.
In
his
Epistle
ad
Pisones
de
arte
Poetica
.
FIrst
let
the
inuention
be
méete
for
the
matter
,
not
differing
,
or
straunge
,
or
monstrous
.
For
a
womans
head
,
a
horse
necke
,
the
bodie
of
a
dyuers
coloured
Byrd
,
and
many
members
of
sundry
creatures
compact
together
,
whose
legges
ending
like
a
Fyshes
tayle
:
this
in
a
picture
is
a
wonderful
deformitie
:
but
if
there
be
such
diuersitye
in
the
frame
of
a
spéeche
.
what
can
be
more
vncomely
or
ilfauoured
?
2.
The
ornaments
or
colours
must
not
bee
too
many
,
nor
rashly
aduentured
on
,
neither
must
they
be
vsed
euery
where
and
thrust
into
euery
place
.
3.
The
proprietie
of
spéeche
must
bee
duely
obserued
,
that
wayghty
and
great
matters
be
not
spoken
slenderly
,
or
matters
of
length
too
briefly
:
for
it
belongeth
much
both
to
the
comlinesse
and
nature
of
a
matter
:
that
in
big
matters
there
be
lykewise
vsed
boysterous
wordes
.
4
In
Poetical
descriptions
,
the
spéeche
must
not
excéede
all
credite
,
nor
any
thing
fainedlie
brought
in
,
against
all
course
of
nature
.
5
The
disposing
of
the
worke
must
be
such
,
that
there
be
no
offence
committed
,
as
it
were
by
too
cxquisite
dilligence
:
for
many
thinges
may
be
oft
committed
,
and
some
thing
by
too
curious
handling
be
made
offenciue
.
Neyther
is
it
in
one
part
to
be
well
furnished
,
and
in
another
to
be
neglected
.
Which
is
prooued
by
example
of
a
Caruer
,
who
expressed
very
artificially
the
heade
and
vpper
part
of
a
body
,
but
the
rest
hee
could
not
make
an
ende
of
.
A●…aine
,
it
is
prooued
thus
,
that
a
body
should
not
be
in
other
partes
beautifull
,
and
yet
bee
deformed
in
the
crooked
nose
:
for
all
the
members
in
a
well
shapen
bodie
must
be
aunswerable
,
sound
,
and
well
proportioned
.
6.
He
that
taketh
in
hande
to
write
any
thing
must
first
take
héede
that
he
be
sufficient
for
the
same
:
for
o●…ten
vnwary
fooles
through
their
rashnes
are
ouertooke
with
great
want
of
ability
7.
The
ornament
of
a
worke
consisteth
in
wordes
,
and
in
the
manner
of
the
wordes
,
are
either
simple
or
mixt
,
newe
or
olde
,
proppar
or
translated
.
In
them
all
good
iudgment
must
be
vsed
and
ready
wytt
.
The
chiefest
grace
is
in
the
most
frequented
wordes
,
for
the
same
reason
holdeth
in
wordes
,
as
doth
in
coynes
,
that
the
most
vsed
and
tried
are
best
estéemed
.
8.
The
kinde
of
verse
is
to
be
considered
and
aptly
applied
to
the
argument
,
in
what
measure
is
most
méete
for
euery
sort
.
The
most
vsuall
kindes
are
foure
,
the
Heroic
,
Eelegiac
,
Iambick
,
and
Lyric
.
9.
One
must
vse
one
kynde
of
spéeche
alike
in
all
wrytings
.
Sometime
the
Lyric
ryseth
aloft
,
sometime
the
comicall
.
To
the
Tragicall
wryters
belong
properly
the
bygge
and
boysterous
wordes
.
Cramples
must
be
interplaced
according
fitly
to
the
time
and
place
.
10.
Regarde
is
to
be
had
of
affections
:
one
thing
becommeth
pleasant
persons
,
an
other
sadde
,
an
other
wrathfull
,
an
other
gentle
,
which
must
all
be
héedefully
respected
.
Thrée
thinges
therefore
are
requisite
in
verses
,
beauty
,
sweetnes
,
and
the
affection
.
Theophrastus
sayth
that
this
beauty
or
delectablenesse
is
a
deceyt
,
and
Aristotle
calleth
it
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
a
momentany
tyrrany
.
Sweetnesse
retayneth
a
Reader
,
affection
moueth
him
.
11
Euery
person
must
be
fitted
accordingly
.
and
the
spéeche
well
ordered
:
wherein
are
to
be
considered
the
dignity
,
age
,
sex
,
fortune
,
condition
,
place
,
Country
,
&c
,
of
eche
person
.
12
The
personnes
are
eyther
to
be
fayned
by
the
Poets
them selues
,
or
borrowed
of
others
,
if
he
borrow
them
,
then
must
hee
obserue
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
that
is
,
that
he
folow
that
Author
exactly
whom
he
purposeth
to
immitate
,
and
whereout
he
bringeth
his
examples
.
But
if
he
fayne
newe
personnes
,
then
must
he
kéepe
his
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
that
is
equallie
:
so
bringing
them
in
eche
place
,
that
it
be
alwayes
agréeable
,
and
the
last
like
vnto
the
first
,
and
not
make
one
person
nowe
a
bolde
boaster
,
and
the
same
straightwaies
a
wise
warie
man
,
for
that
is
passing
absurd
.
Againe
,
euery
one
must
obserue
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
which
is
interpreted
conuenientiam
fitnesse
:
as
it
is
méete
and
agréeable
euery
where
,
a
man
to
be
stoute
,
a
woman
fearefull
,
a
seruant
crafty
,
a
young
man
gentle
.
13
Matters
which
are
common
may
be
handled
by
a
Poet
as
they
may
be
thought
propper
to
himselfe
alone
.
All
matters
of
themselues
are
open
to
be
intreated
of
by
any
man
:
but
if
a
thing
he
handled
of
some
one
in
such
sort
,
as
he
thereby
obtaine
great
prayse
,
he
maketh
it
his
owne
or
propper
to
himselfe
,
as
many
did
write
of
the
Troiane
war
,
but
yet
Homer
made
matter
which
was
common
to
all
,
propper
to
himselfe
.
14
Where
many
thinges
are
to
be
taken
out
of
auncienter
tongues
,
as
the
Latines
tooke
much
out
of
the
Gréekes
,
the
wordes
are
not
so
preciselie
to
be
followed
,
but
that
they
bee
altered
according
to
the
iudgment
and
will
of
the
Immitator
,
which
precept
is
borrowed
of
Tully
,
Non
verbum
verbo
necesse
est
reddere
.
15.
The
beginning
must
not
be
foolishly
hand●…ed
,
that
is
,
straungly
or
too
long
.
16.
The
proposition
or
narration
let
it
n●…t
be
far
fetched
or
vnlikely
,
and
in
the
same
forget
not
the
differences
of
ages
and
persons
.
17.
In
a
Comedie
it
is
needfull
to
exhibite
all
the
actions
openlie
,
as
such
as
are
cruell
,
vnhonest
,
or
ougly
,
but
such
thinges
may
better
bee
declared
by
some
méete
and
handsome
wordes
,
after
what
sorte
they
are
supposed
to
bee
doone
.
18.
If
a
Commedye
haue
more
Actes
then
fiue
,
it
is
tedious
,
if
fewer
,
it
is
not
sufficient
.
It
fytteth
not
to
bring
in
the
personnes
of
Gods
,
but
in
verie
great
matters
.
Cicero
sayth
,
when
the
Tragedy
wryters
cannot
bring
theyr
matters
to
good
passe
,
they
runne
to
God
.
Let
not
more
personnes
speake
together
then
foure
for
anoyding
confusion
.
The
Chori
must
be
well
garnished
&
sette
foorth
:
wherin
eyther
menne
are
admonished
,
or
reprehended
,
or
counsayled
vnto
vertue
.
Such
matter
must
bee
chosen
for
the
Chorus
,
as
may
bee
méete
and
agréeable
to
that
which
is
in
hand
.
As
for
instruments
and
singing
,
they
are
Reliques
of
olde
simplicitye
.
For
the
Musicke
commonlye
vsed
at
Theaters
and
the
licenciousnesse
of
theyr
songes
,
which
together
wyth
theyr
wealth
increased
among
the
Romaines
,
is
hurtfull
to
discipline
and
good
manners
.
19
In
a
Satyr
the
clownish
company
and
rurall
Gods
,
are
brought
in
to
temperate
the
Heauinesse
of
Tragedies
,
wyth
some
myrth
and
pastyme
.
In
iesting
it
must
be
obserued
that
it
bee
not
lacyuious
or
Rybaldlike
,
or
slaunderous
,
which
precept
holdeth
generallie
in
all
sortes
of
wrytynges
.
In
a
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
héede
is
to
be
taken
,
of
the
place
,
of
the
day
,
and
of
the
personnes
:
as
of
Bacchus
,
Silenus
,
or
the
Satyres
.
Againe
of
the
vnméetnesse
or
inconuenience
of
the
matter
,
and
of
the
wordes
that
they
be
fitted
according
to
the
persons
:
of
Decorum
,
that
he
which
represented
some
noble
personage
in
the
Tragedie
,
bée
not
some
busy
foole
in
the
Satyr
:
finallie
of
the
hearers
,
least
they
bee
offended
by
myxing
filthy
matters
with
iestes
,
wanton
toyes
wyth
vnhonest
,
or
noysome
with
merry
thinges
.
20.
The
féete
are
to
be
applied
propper
to
eucry
kinde
of
verse
,
&
therin
a
Poet
must
not
vse
too
much
licence
or
boldnes
.
The
ancient
writers
in
Iambick
verses
vsed
at
first
pure
Iambicks
:
Afterwards
Spondaeus
was
admitted
into
Locos
impares
,
but
at
last
such
was
the
licentious
custome
,
that
they
woulde
both
Spondaeus
where
they
listed
,
and
other
féete
without
regarde
.
21.
In
compyling
of
verses
great
care
and
circumspection
must
be
vsed
.
Those
verses
which
be
made
Extempore
,
are
of
no
great
estimation
:
those
which
are
vnartificiall
,
are
vtterly
repelled
as
too
foolish
.
Though
many
doo
lightlic
regard
our
verses
,
yet
ought
the
Carelesnesse
of
the
hearers
to
bee
no
cause
in
vs
of
errour
and
negligence
.
Who
desireth
to
make
any
thing
worthy
to
be
heard
of
learned
eares
,
let
hym
reade
Greeke
Authors
heedefullie
and
continually
.
22.
Artes
haue
their
increasinges
euen
as
other
things
,
béeing
naturall
,
so
haue
Tragedies
which
were
first
rudely
inuented
by
Thespis
,
at
last
were
much
adorned
by
AEschylus
:
at
the
first
they
were
practised
in
Uillages
of
the
Countrey
,
afterwardes
brought
to
stages
in
great
Citties
.
23.
Some
Artes
doo
increase
,
some
doo
decay
by
a
certayne
naturall
course
.
The
olde
manner
of
Commedies
decayde
,
by
reason
of
slaundering
which
therein
they
vsed
against
many
,
for
which
there
was
a
penaltie
appointed
,
least
their
bitternes
should
proceede
too
farre
:
In
place
of
which
among
the
Latines
came
the
Satyres
.
The
auncient
Authors
of
Comedies
,
were
Eupolis
,
Cratinus
,
and
Aristophanes
,
of
the
middle
sorte
,
Plato
Comicus
,
of
the
last
kinde
Menander
,
which
continued
and
was
accounted
the
most
famous
.
24.
A
Poet
should
not
content
himselfe
onely
with
others
inuentions
,
but
himselfe
also
by
the
example
of
old
wryters
sholde
bring
something
of
his
owne
industry
,
which
may
bee
laudable
.
So
did
they
which
writte
among
the
Latines
the
Comedies
called
Togatae
,
whose
arguments
were
taken
from
the
Gréekes
,
and
the
other
which
wrytt
the
Pretextatae
,
whereof
the
arguments
were
Latine
.
25.
Héedefulnesse
and
good
composition
maketh
a
persecte
verse
,
and
that
which
is
not
so
may
be
reprehended
.
The
faculty
of
a
good
witte
exceedeth
Arte.
26.
A
Poet
that
he
may
be
perfect
,
hath
neede
to
haue
know
ledge
of
that
part
of
Philosophy
which
informeth
the
life
to
good
manners
.
The
other
which
pertaineth
to
naturall
thinges
,
is
lesse
plausible
,
hath
fewer
ornaments
,
and
is
not
so
profitable
.
27.
A
Poet
to
the
knowledge
of
Philosophie
shoulde
also
adde
greater
experience
,
that
he
may
know
the
fashions
of
men
and
dispositions
of
people
.
Thys
profit
is
gott
by
tra●…elling
,
that
whatsoeuer
he
wryteth
he
may
so
expresse
〈◊〉
order
it
,
that
hys
narration
may
be
formable
.
28.
The
ende
of
Poetry
is
to
wryte
pleasant
thinges
,
and
profitable
.
Pleasant
it
is
which
delighteth
by
béeing
not
too
long
,
or
vneasy
to
be
kept
in
memory
,
and
which
is
somewhat
likelie
,
and
not
altogether
sorged
.
Profitable
it
is
,
which
〈◊〉
reth
vppe
the
mindes
to
learning
and
wisedome
.
29.
Certaine
escapes
are
to
be
pardoned
in
some
Poets
,
specially
in
great
workes
.
A
faulte
may
bee
committed
either
in
respect
of
hys
propper
Arte
,
or
in
some
other
Arte
:
that
a
Poet
shoulde
erre
in
precepts
of
hys
owne
arte
,
is
a
shamefull
thing
,
to
committe
a
faulte
in
another
Arte
is
to
be
borne
withal
:
as
in
Virgill
,
who
fayueth
that
AEneas
comming
into
Affrica
sl●…w
with
hys
darte
certaine
Stagges
,
whereas
indéede
Affrica
hath
in
it
none
of
those
beastes
.
Such
errours
doo
happen
eyther
by
vn●…defulnes
,
when
one
escapeth
them
by
negligence
:
or
by
the
common
fragility
of
man
,
because
none
there
is
which
can
know
all
thinges
.
Therefore
this
last
kinde
of
errour
is
not
to
be
stucke
vppon
.
30.
A
good
Poet
should
haue
respect
to
thys
,
how
to
retaine
hys
Reader
or
hearer
.
In
a
picture
some
thing
delighteth
béeing
sette
farre
of
,
something
neerer
,
but
a
Poet
should
delight
in
all
places
as
well
in
sunne
as
shaddowe
.
31.
In
a
Poet
is
no
meane
to
be
admitted
,
which
if
hée
bee
not
he
of
all
is
the
worst
of
all
.
32
A
Poeme
if
it
runne
not
swéetely
and
smoothly
is
odious
:
which
is
proued
by
a
simile
of
the
two
senses
,
hearing
and
tasting
,
as
in
swéete
and
pleasaunt
meates
.
And
the
Poem
must
bee
of
that
sorte
,
that
for
the
swéetenesse
of
it
may
bee
acceptable
and
continue
like
it selfe
vnto
the
ende
,
least
it
wearye
or
driue
away
a
Reader
.
33.
Hée
that
would
wryte
any
thing
worthy
the
posteritye
,
let
him
not
enterprise
any
thing
wherevnto
his
nature
is
not
agréeable
.
Mercury
is
not
made
of
wood
(
as
they
say
)
neyther
doth
Minerua
fauour
all
studies
in
euery
one
.
In
all
Artes
nature
is
the
best
helpe
,
and
learned
men
vse
commonly
to
say
that
A
Poet
is
as
well
borne
as
made
a
Poet.
34
Let
no
man
estéeme
himselfe
so
learned
,
but
that
he
may
submytte
hys
wrytinges
to
the
iudgments
of
others
,
and
correct
and
throughly
amend
the
same
himselfe
.
35
The
profitte
of
Poetry
sprang
thus
,
for
that
the
auncient
wyse
men
set
downe
the
best
things
that
pertained
to
mans
life
,
manners
,
or
felicity
,
and
examining
and
proouing
the
same
by
long
experience
of
time
,
when
they
were
aged
they
published
them
in
wrytinges
.
The
vse
of
Poetry
what
it
was
at
the
first
,
is
manifest
by
the
examples
of
the
moste
learned
men
:
as
of
Orpheus
who
first
builded
houses
:
of
Amphion
who
made
Citties
:
of
Tyrtaeus
who
first
made
warre
:
of
Homer
,
who
wryt
most
wysely
.
36
In
an
artificiall
Poet
thrée
thinges
are
requisite
,
nature
,
Arte
,
and
dilligence
.
37
A
wryter
must
learne
of
the
learned
,
and
he
must
not
sticke
to
confesse
when
he
erreth
:
that
the
worse
he
may
learne
to
auoyde
,
and
knowe
howe
to
follow
the
better
.
The
confession
of
an
errour
betoken
a
noble
and
a
gentle
minde
.
Celsus
and
Quintillian
doo
report
of
Hippocrates
,
that
least
he
should
deceiue
his
posterity
,
he
confessed
certayne
errours
,
as
it
well
became
an
excellent
minded
man
,
and
one
of
great
credite
.
For
(
as
sayth
Celsus
)
light
witts
because
they
haue
nothing
,
wyll
haue
nothing
taken
from
them
.
38.
In
making
choise
of
such
fréendes
as
should
tell
vs
the
trueth
,
and
correct
our
wrytinges
,
héedefull
iudgment
must
bee
vsed
:
least
eyther
we
choose
vnskylfull
folke
,
or
flatterers
,
or
dissemblers
.
The
vnskilfull
know
not
how
to
iudge
,
flatterers
feare
to
offende
,
dissemblers
in
not
praysing
doo
séeme
to
commende
.
39
Let
no
man
deceiue
himselfe
,
or
suffer
himselfe
to
be
deceiued
,
but
take
some
graue
learned
man
to
be
iudge
of
his
dooing
,
and
let
him
according
to
hys
counsayle
change
and
put
out
what
hée
thinketh
good
.
40.
He
which
wyll
not
slatter
and
is
of
ability
to
iudge
,
let
him
endeuour
to
nothing
so
much
,
as
to
the
correction
of
that
which
is
wrytten
,
and
that
let
be
doone
with
earnest
and
exquisite
iudgment
.
He
which
dooth
not
thus
,
but
offendeth
wilfully
in
breaking
his
credit●…
too
rashly
,
may
be
counted
for
a
madde
,
furious
,
and
franticke
foole
.
41.
The
faultes
commonly
in
verses
are
seauen
,
as
either
they
be
destitute
of
Arte
,
of
facility
,
or
ornament
:
or
els
,
they
be
superfluous
,
obscure
,
ambicious
,
or
néedelesse
.
Out
of
the
Epistles
ad
Mecaenatem
,
Augustum
,
&
Florum
.
42
An
immitation
should
not
be
too
seruile
or
superstitious
,
as
though
one
durst
not
varry
one
iotte
from
the
example
:
neyther
should
it
be
so
sencelesse
or
vnskilfull
,
as
to
immitate
thinges
which
are
absurde
,
and
not
to
be
followed
.
43
One
should
not
altogether
treade
in
the
steppes
of
others
,
but
sometime
he
may
enter
into
such
waves
as
haue
not
boene
haunted
or
vsed
of
others
.
Horace
borrowed
the
Iambick
verse
of
Archilocus
,
expressing
fully
his
numbers
and
eleganty
,
but
his
vnséemely
wordes
and
pratling
tauntes
hee
moste
wyshlye
shunned
.
44
In
our
verses
we
should
not
gape
after
the
phrases
of
the
simpler
sorte
,
but
striu●…
to
haue
our
writings
allowable
in
the
iudgments
of
learned
menne
.
45.
The
common
peoples
iudgments
of
Poets
is
seldome
true
,
and
therefore
not
to
be
sought
after
.
The
vulgar
sort
in
Rome
iudged
Pacu●…ious
to
be
very
learned
,
Accius
to
bee
a
graue
wryter
,
that
Aff●…ius
followed
Menander
,
Plautus
,
Ep●…charmus
:
that
Terence
excelled
in
Arte
Caecilius
in
grauity
:
but
the
learned
sorte
were
not
of
this
opinion
.
There
is
extant
in
Macrobius
(
I
knowe
not
whether
Angellius
)
the
like
verdite
concerning
them
which
wryt
Epigrammes
.
That
Catullus
and
Caluus
wrytt
fewe
thinges
that
were
good
,
Naeuius
obscure
,
Hō●…tensius
vncomely
,
Cynna
vnpleasant
,
and
Memmius
rough
.
46.
The
olde
wryters
are
so
farre
to
be
commended
,
as
nothing
be
taken
from
the
newe
:
neyther
may
we
thinke
but
that
the
way
lyeth
open
styll
to
others
to
attaine
to
as
great
matters
.
Full
well
sayd
Sidonius
to
Eucherius
,
I
reuerence
the
olde
wryters
,
yet
not
so
as
though
I
lesse
estéemed
the
vertues
and
desertes
of
the
wryters
in
this
age
.
47.
Newnes
is
gratefull
if
it
be
learned
:
for
certaine
it
is
,
Artes
are
not
bothe
begunne
and
perfected
at
once
,
but
are
increased
by
time
and
studie
:
which
notwithstanding
when
they
are
at
the
full
perfection
,
doo
debate
and
decrease
againe
.
Cic.
de
orat
.
There
is
nothing
in
the
world
which
bursteth
out
all
at
once
,
and
commeth
to
light
all
wholly
together
.
48.
No
man
should
dare
to
practise
an
Arte
that
is
daungerous
,
especially
before
he
haue
learned
the
same
perfectly
:
so
doo
guyders
of
Shyppes
:
so
doo
Phisitions
:
but
so
did
not
manie
Romaine
Poets
(
yea
so
doo
not
too
many
English
wryters
)
who
in
a
certaine
corragious
heate
gaped
after
glory
by
wryting
verses
,
but
fewe
of
them
obtayned
it
.
49.
A
Poet
should
be
no
lesse
skylfull
in
dealing
with
the
affectes
of
the
mynde
,
then
a
tumbler
or
a
Juggler
shoulde
bee
ready
in
his
Arte.
And
with
such
pyth
shoulde
he
sette
foorth
hys
matters
,
that
a
Reader
should
séeme
not
onely
to
heare
the
thing
,
but
to
sée
and
be
present
at
the
dooing
thereof
.
Which
faculty
Fabius
calleth
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
and
Aristotle
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
.
50.
Poets
are
either
such
as
desire
to
be
liked
of
on
stages
,
as
Commedie
and
Tragedie
wryters
:
or
such
as
woulde
bee
regestred
in
Libraries
.
Those
on
stages
haue
speciall
respect
to
the
motions
of
the
minde
,
that
they
may
stirre
bothe
the
eyes
and
eares
of
their
beholders
.
But
the
other
which
séeke
to
please
priuately
with
the
walles
,
take
good
aduisement
in
their
workes
,
that
they
may
satisfy
the
exact
iudgments
of
learned
men
in
their
studies
.
51
A
Poet
shoulde
not
bee
too
importunate
,
as
to
offende
in
vnseasonable
spéeches
:
or
vngentle
,
as
to
contemne
the
admonitions
of
others
:
or
ambicious
,
as
to
thinke
too
well
of
hys
owne
dooinges
:
or
too
wayward
,
as
to
thinke
,
reward
enough
cannot
be
gyuen
him
for
his
deserte
,
or
finally
too
proude
,
as
to
desyre
to
be
honoured
aboue
measure
.
52
The
emendations
of
Poemes
be
very
necessary
,
that
in
the
obscure
poyntes
many
thinges
may
be
enlightned
,
in
the
baser
partes
many
thinges
may
be
throughly
garnished
.
Hee
may
take
away
and
put
out
all
vnpropper
&
vnséemely
words
,
he
may
with
discretion
immitate
the
auncient
wryters
,
he
may
abridge
thinges
that
are
too
lofty
,
mittigate
thynges
that
are
too
rough
,
and
may
vse
all
remedies
of
spéeche
throughout
the
whole
worke
.
The
thinges
which
are
scarce
séemely
,
he
may
amende
by
Arte
and
methode
.
53
Let
a
Poet
first
take
vppon
him
,
as
though
he
were
to
play
but
an
Actors
part
,
as
he
may
bée
estéemed
like
one
which
wryteth
without
regarde
,
neyther
let
him
so
pollish
his
works
,
but
that
euery
one
for
the
basenesse
thereof
,
may
think
to
make
as
good
.
Hée
may
likewyse
exercise
the
part
of
gesturer
,
as
though
he
séemed
to
meddle
in
rude
and
common
matters
,
and
yet
not
so
deale
in
them
,
as
it
were
for
variety
sake
,
nor
as
though
he
had
laboured
them
thoroughly
but
tryfled
with
them
,
nor
as
though
he
had
sweat
for
them
,
but
practised
a
little
.
For
so
to
hyde
ones
cunning
,
that
nothing
should
séeme
to
bee
laborsome
or
exquisite
,
when
notwithstanding
,
euery
part
is
pollished
with
care
and
studie
,
is
a
speciall
gyft
which
Aristotle
calleth
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
.
54.
It
is
onely
a
poynt
of
wysedome
,
to
vse
many
and
thoyse
elegant
wordes
,
but
to
vnderstand
also
and
to
set
foorth
thinges
which
pertaine
to
the
happy
ende
of
mans
life
.
Wherevppon
the
Poet
Horace
,
calleth
the
Arte
poeticall
,
without
the
knowledge
of
learning
and
philosophy
,
a
prating
vanity
.
Therfore
a
good
and
allowable
Poet
,
must
be
adorned
with
wordes
,
plcutious
in
sentences
,
and
if
not
equall
to
an
Drator
,
yet
very
néere
him
,
and
a
speciall
louer
of
learned
men
.
FINIS
.