Puttenham, George, -1590 / 2008-06-04 00:00:00
EBOOK THE ARTE OF ENGLISH POESIE ***
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THE ARTE
OF ENGLISH
POESIE.
Contriued into three Bookes: The first of Poets and Poesie,
the second of Proportion, the third of Ornament.
[Illustration: AN CHORA SPEI (shield with hand coming out of a cloud and
holding onto an anchor entwined with vine)]
AT LONDON
Printed by Richard Field,
dwelling in the black-Friers, neere Ludgate.
1589.
TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE SIR WILLIAM CECILL KNIGHT,
LORD OF BVRGHLEY, LORD HIGH TREASVRER OF ENGLAND, R.F.
Printer wisheth health and prosperitie, with the commandement
and vse of his continuall seruice.
_This Booke (right Honorable) coming to my handes, with his bare title
without any Authours name or any other ordinarie addresse, I doubted how
well it might become me to make you a present thereof, seeming by many
expresse passages in the same at large, that it was by the Authour
intended to our Soueraigne Lady the Queene, and for her recreation and
seruice chiefly deuised, in which case to make any other person her
highnes partener in the honour of his guift it could not stand with my
dutie, nor be without some prejudice to her Maiesties interest and his
merrite.
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