ASTROPHEL Harts eale and onely I. like parables run on, Farewell to you my hopes, my wonted waking dream 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. 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, HAruey, the happy aboue happiest men I read that, fitting like a Looker-on 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. For Life, and Death, is in thy doomefull writing : 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, And not by painted fhewes & titles vaine, Here truly pourtrayt, as they ought to be, And when thou doost with equall insight fee the ods twixt both, of both the deem aright, And next to Jones, that truely it translated. 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)." W 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, Great both by name, and great in power and might, 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, W Ho fo will feeke by right dese Vnto the type of true Nobili And not by painted shewes & titles Deriued farre from famous Anceftrie Behold them both in their right visnom Here truly pourtrayt, as they ought And ftriuing both for termes of dign To be aduanced highest in degree. And when thou dooft with equall infigh the ods twixt both, of both the deem And chufe the better of them both to But thanks to him that it deferues, bo To Nenna firft, that first this worke crea And next to Jones, that truely it tran Ed |