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Tottel's Miscellany. Songes and Sonnets iOO lprcscntc& to ^be Xibrar^ ot tbe lanlvereiti? of Toronto b^ Yn^h '^^^ A ISnglt^f) lie^ritit^. : Carefully Edited by TOTTEL'>-^tlSCELLANY Songs and Sonnets BV HENRY HOWARD, /i-.?r/./SURREY„ Sir THOMAS WYATT, t/w Elder. NICHOLAS GRIMALD, UNCERTAIN AUTHORS. 5 June— 31 July 1557. LONDON 5 QUEEN SQUARE, BLOOMSBURY, W.C Ent. Stat. Hall. ] 1 8 7 O. \.All Rights referveJ. MAY BE OBTAINED IN FOUR FORMS, Fcp. 8vo. I. —The Monthly Issue, in stiff covers, chiefly in Sixpenny or ShiUing Works. See Catalogue. [a) Cjit edges. Handsome and durable Cases for preserving copies in this form may be obtained One Shilling each. [b) Ujicnt edges, for those desirous of binding for themselves, &c. Of the same prices as the preceding. II. —In bevelled green cloth, red edges, &c., two or three Works making up into occasional Volumes, generally Half a Crown or Three Shillings and Sixpence each. ALREADY ISSUED. In stiff covers. In cloth. Milton. 6d. 2. Latimer . 6d. 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I Sondes and Sonettes [ I , I R r: : N R Y How A R D Earl of S R v Sir Thomas Wvatt, the Elder, Nicholas (iRiMALi), AND Uncertain Authors. FIRST EDITION OF 5TH JUNE ; COLLATED WITH THE SECOND EDITION OF 31 ST JULY, I 557. BY EJ)\\A R I) A R B }:R. Affociate, King's College, London, F.R.G.S., &^c. LONDON 5 <,>i;i:kn s(^»i:Aki;. in.ooMSi'.Lun'. w.i . Enl. Sial. //nil] iAll Rights 1 5 August, 1 8 70. referved. PR. CONTENTS. 15.0 "5 T4 t PAGE A Prologue ?10 iii The Table of First Lines vi Chronological Memoranda, &c. ix Introduction . XV I. TOTTEL's MISCELLANY. First Edition, 5 June, 1557. So7tgs qnd Sonnets written by the right honourable Loj'd Henry Howard, /ate Bar/ 0/ Surrey, and other i 1. The Printer to the Reader .... 2 2. Thirty-six poems by the Earl of Surrey , , 3-32 3. Ninety poems by Sir Thomas Wyatt . 33-95 4. Forty poems by Nicholas Grimald . 96-125 5. Ninety-five Poems by Uncertain Authors : among whom were certainly Thomas Churchyard, Thomas Lord Vaux, Edward Somerset, John Heywood, and Sir Francis Bryan . 61, 126-217 Of these 95 poems ; the following Authors only have been as j'et ascertained (a) Two poems attributed to Lord Vaux . 172-4 (6) A poem attributed to John Heywood . - 163 (c) A poem apparently written by Euward Somerset 164 6. Four other Poems by the Earl of Surrey . 218-222 7. Six other Poems by Sir Thomas Wyatt . 223-225 8. Colophon ...... 226 IL TOTTEL's MISCELLANY. Second Edition, 31 July, 1557. Collated with First Edition : variations are shown In the footnotes. 9. Thirty-nine additional Poems by Uncertain Antho7's, first found in the Second Edition . 227-271 Later Bibliography . : 272 Of the entire collection, the following were selected out of the poems of The Earl of Surrey ..... 40 Sir Thomas Wyatt ..... 96 Nicholas Grimald ..... 40 KnAoi Uncertain Authors . .134 Total number in the Miscellafiy . 310 . Of the 134 poems by Uncertaift Authors: there are still 130, of which the authorship has yet to be ascertained. — ; A PROLOGUE. HE immenfe quantity of Englifh verfe that was written between 15 30- 1600 is probably far beyond the concep- tion of moft readers of our literature. The printed Poetry—whether it appeared as the produ6lion of a fmgle Poet or in the fhape of Poetical Colledlions, (not to fpeak of the innumerable commendatory verfes prefixed to profe works) conftitute all of that — the bulk of the publications time ; jufl as Religious literature does in the prefent day. But a flight recol- ledlion of thofe publications, will confirm the following teflimony of William Webbe, in 1586. Among the innumerable sortes of Englyshe Bookes, and infinite fardles of printed pamphlets, wherewith thys Countrey is pestered, all shoppes stuffed, and euery study furnished : the greatest part I thinke in any one kinde, are such as are either meere Poeticall, or which tende in some respecte (as either in matter or forme) to Poetry. Preface to A Discourse of English Poetrie. To this printed Poetry ; muft be added in our eflimate, all the )uamifcript verfe at prefent extant in all our various public and private collections. Laflly, we mufl allow fomewhat, for the Poems—both printed and manufcript—that have perifhed beyond all poffibility of recovery. 2. The Poet^ of that age, wrote for their own delectation and for that of their'friends : and not for the general public. They generally had the greateft averfion to their works appearing in print. In 77?^ ^r/^^/'..£'//^///7z<? /Ic^^, 1 589, attributed to George Puttenham, are the two notable complaints of this bafhfulnefs. *' Now also of such among the Nobilitie or gentrie as be very well seene in many laudable sciences, and especially in making or Poesie, it is so come to passe that they haue no courage to write and if they haue, yet are they loath to be a knowen of their skill. So as I know very many notable Gentle- men in the Court that haue written commendably and suppressed it agayne, or els suffred it to be publisht without their owrie names to it : as if it were a discredit for a Gentleman, to seeme learned, and to shew him selfe amorous of any good Art." /. 37. Ed. \^6g. "And in her Maiesties time that now is are sprong yp an other crew of Courtly makers Noble men and Gentlemen of her Maiesties owne seruauntes, who haue written excellently well as it would appeare if their doings could be found out and made pubHcke with the rest." /. 75. Ed. 1869. Nuriierous inftances of this hefitation arifing out of fear of criticifm or of natural bafhfulnefs, could be readily given. The refult of this hefitation was, that a large number of poems never came to the prefs at all ; at leaft in that age. Coinciding with thefe numerous unprinted compositions ; was a frequent pracflice of keeping Poetical Note-books by many who , were not poets themfelves. As the manufcript or fcarce printed j Poems paffed from hand to hand, they were neatly copied into folio .• ^ or quarto (haped books ; fuch as we find in the Bodleian or the Britifli Mufeum. All thefe copies, however, are not clear gain as to quantity. They fometimes contain additions to the printed texts but as often fimply prefent merely verbal variations. Thus, with iv A PROLOGUE. originals and copies together, it has come to pafs that the EHza- betlaan verfe extant in manufcript is in greater proportion in bulk to that which was then printed than is the cafe in the prefent day. 3. With regard to the totality of this verfe : there is yet much to be done. Chiefly however it is to reflore—in a juft meafure of fame—not a few of our bejl Englijh Poets to their places in the National Literature. All our good Poets are not yet recognifed. "When all thefe hidden and publifhed poems have been brought to light, verified, and collated : we may hope to gauge the poefy, and to poffefs—in much larger bulk than is now thought to exifl —the poems of Queen Elizabeth ; Edward Vere, Earl of Oxford ; Thomas, Lord Vaux ; Henry, Lord Paget ;: Sir Edward Dyer; Sir John Graunge; Thomas Lodge, M.D. ; Edwyn Sandys, M.D. ; William Hunnis ; Clement Robin- son ; William Wilmot ; Francis and George Davison ; and who not ? Then may we hope to folve the whole hofl of Initials and Pfeudynoms which are, but often vainly, fuppofed to atteft the authorfhip of fo many extant poetical pieces. Then may we afpire to wipe away Ignoto from verfes, the compofers of which were unknown to their own contemporaries. 4. Nor (hall, in any cafe, the fearch go unrewarded. The Eliza- bethan age produced the moft blithefome of our Englifh Song. True Poetry is not cramped like Profeto the expreffion of the fa6l. It is not limited to the locality of its own age and civilization, A Thing of Beauty, a Joy for ever, it refreflies a,ll after time : and the Searcher will find that the aggregate Minor Poets of Elizabeth's reign—varying infinitely in merit among themfelves— do far surpafs, both in the quantity and quality of their produdlions, all their Englifh compeers that have written fince. 5. Putting afide from our further confideration the viamtfcript poetry ; let us return to what was actually publifhed. It feems very defirable that with the reprodudlion of works by fingle Poets, the celebrated Poetical Mifcellanies fhould, as far as poffible, be alfo repoffeffed by the public. Not a very numerous clafs : they are diflinguiflied by great intrinfic charm and beauty of thought and expreffion ; by the exceffive rarity and value of the very few copies of the early editions that have come down to us ; and by the cofllinefs of the exceffively limited editions, which Englifh Scholars have publifhed of them in the courfe of this cen- tury ; not for an univerfal enjoyment, for which they thought the world not refined enough, but for the prefervation of the Texts from the accidents and ravages of Time.
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