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Number 87
THE ENGLISH
EXPERIENCE
Its Record in Early Printed Books
Published in Facsimile
[Illustration]
(FRANCESCO COLONNA)
HYPNEROTOMACHIA
London 1592
Da Capo Press
Theatrum Orbis Terrarum Ltd.
Amsterdam 1969 New York
The publishers acknowledge their gratitude
to the Curators of the Bodleian Library, Oxford,
for their permission to reproduce
the Library's copy.
S.T.C. No.5577
Collation: A Z (4º), Aa Cc (4º)
Published in 1969 by
Theatrum Orbis Terrarum Ltd.,
O. Z. Voorburgwal 85, Amsterdam
&
Da Capo Press
· a division of Plenum Publishing Corporation ·
227 West 17th Street, New York. 10011
Printed in The Netherlands
HYPNEROTOMA
CHIA .
The
Strife of Loue in a
Dreame .
[Illustration]
At London,
Printed for Simon Waterson, and are
to be sold at his shop, in S. Paules Church
yard, at Cheape gate .
1592.
TO THE THRISE HO
NOVRABLE AND EVER LY
VING VERTVES OF SYR PHILLIP
SYDNEY KNIGHT; AND TO THE
RIGHT HONORABLE AND OTHERS WHAT
SOEVER, WHO LIVING LOVED HIM,
AND BEING DEAD GIVE HIM
HIS DVE .
To the Right Honourable Robert
Deuorax, Earle of Essex and Ewe, Viscount
Hereford, and Bourghchier, Lorde Ferrers of Chartley,
Bourghchier and Louaine, Maister of the Queenes Maie
sties Horse, and Knight of the most noble order of the Garter:
Is wished, the perfection of all happinesse, and tryumphant
felicitie in this life, and in the worlde
to come.
When I had determined (Right honorable) to dedicate this Booke, to the
euerlyuing vertues of that matchlesse Knight Syr Phillip Sydney ; me
thought that I could not finde out a more Noble personage then your
selfe, and more fit, to patronize, shield, and defende my dutie to the
deade, then your Honour, whose greatnes is such, and vertues of that
power, as who so commendeth them, deserueth not to be accounted a
flatterer, but he that doth not the same, may be thought an euill
willer. Hovv your Honor vvill accept hereof, I make no doubt, because
that curtesie attendeth vpon true nobilitie; but my humble request is,
that your Honor may not thinke of me (by the tytle of the Booke,
and some part of the discourse) as if I vvere amorous, and did speake
according to my ovvne passions, for I beeing restrained of my liberty,
and helde in the graue of obliuion, where I still as yet remaine,
oppressed with Melancholie, and wearied vvith deeper studies, I vvas
glad to beguile the time with these conceits, anothomising in them, the
vanitie of this life, and vncertaintie of the delights therof, in the
Dreame of Poliphilus ; Which if it shall please your Honor at
conuenient leysure to looke ouer, pardoning what you finde amisse,
and weighing my good will, I shall thinke my selfe most happy.
And thus I humbly take my leaue, vntill that I may present your Honour,
with a matter more fitting the same.
Your Honors deuoted,
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