ASTROPHEL

Harts eale and onely I. like parables run on,
Whore equall length keep equall bredth, and neuer meeti
Ye for not wronging him my thoughts, my forrowes ce
Shall not run out, though leake they will, for liking him

Farewell to you my hopes, my wonted waking dream
Farewell Sometimes enjoyed, joy, eclipfed are thy beam
Farewell felle plealing thoughts, which quietnes brin
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And farewel friendhips facred league, vniting minds

And farewell mery hart, the gift of guiltleffe mindes. And all sports, which for lines reftore, varietie affigne Let all that freete is voyd; in me no mirth may dw Philly, the care of all this woe, my liues content farew

Norrine the focne of rage, which art no kin to skill, (to) And endlies griefe, which deads my life, yet knowes not b Go feekes that haples tombe, which if ye hap to find Salute the frones, that keep the lims, that held fo god minde

FINIS.

LONDON

Frinted by T. C. for William Ponfonbie.
1595-

SONNETS BY SPENSER

FROM

VARIOUS SOURCES.

I. From "Foure Letters, and Certaine Sonnets: Efpecially touching Robert Greene, and other parties by him abused, etc. London: Imprinted by Iohn Wolfe, 1592 (4°).”

To the right worshipfull my fingular good frend,
M. Gabriell Haruey, Doctor of the Lawes.

HAruey, the happy aboue happiest men

I read that, fitting like a Looker-on
Of this worldes Stage, doest note with critique pen
The sharpe dislikes of each condition :

And, as one careleffe of fufpition,

Ne fawneft for the fauour of the great;

Ne fearest foolish reprehenfion

Of faulty men, which daunger to thee threat.
But freely doeft, of what thee lift, entreat,
Like a great Lord of peereleffe liberty;
Lifting the Good vp to high Honours feat,
And the Euill damning euermore to dy.

For Life, and Death, is in thy doomefull writing :
So thy renowme liues euer by endighting.

Dublin this xviij. of Iuly, 1586,

Your deuoted frend, during life,

Edmund Spencer.

II. From Nennio, Or a Treatife of Nobility, etc. Written in Italian by that famous Doctor and worthy Knight, Sir John Baptifta Nenna of Barri. Done into English by William Iones, Gent, 1595 (4°).”

Ho fo will feeke by right deserts t' attaine,
Vnto the type of true Nobility,

And not by painted fhewes & titles vaine,
Deriued farre from famous Anceftrie:
Behold them both in their right visnomy

Here truly pourtrayt, as they ought to be,
And striuing both for termes of dignitie,
To be aduanced highest in degree.

And when thou doost with equall insight fee

the ods twixt both, of both the deem aright,
And chufe the better of them both to thee:
But thanks to him that it deferues, behight;
To Nenna first, that first this worke created,

And next to Jones, that truely it translated.
Ed. Spenser.

III. From "Hiftorie of George Caftriot, surnamed Scanderbeg, King of Albanie: containing his famous actes, etc. Newly tranflated out of French into English by Z. I., Gentleman.

W. Ponsonby, 1596 (folio)."

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Imprinted for

Herefore doth vaine antiquitie so vaunt

Her ancient monuments of mightie peeres,

And old Heroes, which their world did daunt

With their great deedes, and fild their childrens eares? Who rapt with wonder of their famous praise,

Admire their statues, their Coloffoes great,
Their rich triumphall Arcks which they did raise,
Their huge Pyramids, which do heauen threat.
Lo one, whom later age hath brought to light,
Matchable to the greatest of those great :

Great both by name, and great in power and might,
And meriting a meere triumphant seate.

The scourge of Turkes, and plague of infidels,

Thy acts, ô Scanderbeg, this volume tels.

Ed. Spenfer.

II. From "Nennio, Or a Treatife of

Written in Italian by that famous Doc Knight, Sir Iohn Baptifta Nenna of into English by William Iones, Gent,

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Vnto the type of true Nobili

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