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The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5 By: Edmund Spenser (1552?-1599) |
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POETICAL WORKS OF EDMUND SPENSER. VOLUME V.
M.DCCC.LX.
CONTENTS OF THE FIFTH VOLUME. MISCELLANIES. Complaints The Ruines of Time
The Teares of the Muses
Virgils Gnat
Prosopopoia: or Mother Hubberds Tale
Ruines of Rome: by Bellay
Muiopotmos: or the Fate of the Butterflie
Visions of the Worlds Vanitie
The Visions of Bellay
The Visions of Petrarch Daphnaida Amoretti Epithalamion Prothalamion Fowre Hymnes Epigrams Sonnets APPENDIX. I. Variations from the Original Editions II. Two Letters from Spenser to Harvey III. Index of Proper Names
MISCELLANIES. COMPLAINTS. CONTAINING SUNDRIE SMALL POEMES OF THE
WORLDS VANITIE: WHEREOF THE NEXT PAGE MAKETH MENTION. BY ED. SP. LONDON: IMPRINTED FOR WILLIAM PONSONBIE, DWELLING IN PAULES
CHURCHYARD AT THE SIGNE OF THE BISHOPS HEAD. 1591.
A NOTE OF THE SUNDRIE POEMES CONTAINED IN THIS VOLUME. 1. The Ruines of Time. 2. The Teares of the Muses. 3. Virgils Gnat. 4. Prosopopoia, or Mother Hubberds Tale. 5. The Ruines of Rome: by Bellay. 6. Muiopotmos, or The Tale of the Butterflie. 7. Visions of the Worlds Vanitie. 8. Bellayes Visions. 9. Petrarches Visions. THE PRINTER TO THE GENTLE READER.
Since my late setting foorth of the Faerie Queene, finding that it hath
found a favourable passage amongst you, I have sithence endevoured by
all good meanes, (for the better encrease and accomplishment of your
delights,) to get into my handes such smale poemes of the same Authors
as I heard were disperst abroad in sundrie hands, and not easie to bee
come by by himselfe; some of them having bene diverslie imbeziled and
purloyned from him, since his departure over sea. Of the which I have
by good meanes gathered togeather these fewe parcels present, which I
have caused to bee imprinted altogeather, for that they al seeme to
containe like matter of argument in them, being all complaints and
meditations of the worlds vanitie, verie grave and profitable. To which
effect I understand that he besides wrote sundrie others, namelie:
Ecclesiastes and Canticum Canticorum translated, A Senights
Slumber, The Hell of Lovers, his Purgatorie , being all dedicated to
ladies, so as it may seeme he ment them all to one volume: besides some
other pamphlets looselie scattered abroad; as The Dying Pellican, The
Howers of the Lord, The Sacrifice of a Sinner, The Seven Psalmes , &c.,
which, when I can either by himselfe or otherwise attaine too, I meane
likewise for your favour sake to set foorth. In the meane time, praying
you gentlie to accept of these, and graciouslie to entertaine the new
Poet, I take leave. [ Spenser had printed nothing with his name before the Faerie
Queene. Ponsonby's account of the way in which this volume was
collected is rather loose. The Ruins of Time and The Tears of the Muses
were certainly written shortly before they were published, and there
can be equally little doubt that Mother Hubberd's Tale was retouched
about the same time. C.] THE RUINES OF TIME.
DEDICATED TO THE RIGHT NOBLE AND BEAUTIFULL LADIE, THE LA: MARIE, COUNTESSE OF PEMEBROOKE.
Most honourable and bountifull Ladie, there bee long sithens deepe
sowed in my brest the seede of most entire love and humble affection
unto that most brave knight, your noble brother deceased; which, taking
roote, began in his life time somewhat to bud forth, and to shew
themselves to him, as then in the weakenes of their first spring; and
would in their riper strength (had it pleased High God till then to
drawe out his daies) spired forth fruit of more perfection. But since
God hath disdeigned the world of that most noble spirit which was the
hope of all learned men, and the patron of my young Muses, togeather
with him both their hope of anie further fruit was cut off, and also
the tender delight of those their first blossoms nipped and quite dead... Continue reading book >>
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