An English garner; ingatherings from our history and literature . Courteous Reader, Hereas I was fully determined to have con-cealed my Sonnets as tilings privy to myself;yet, of courtesy, having lent them to some,they were secretly committed to the Piess and almostfinished, before it came to my knowledge. Wherefore making, as they say. Virtue of Necessity,I did deem it most convenient to prepose ?ny Epistle, ^;z/)/to beseech you to acco2int of them as of toys and amorousdevices; and, ere long, 1 will impart unto the Worldanother Poem, which shall be both more fruitfuland ponderotcs. In the me
An English garner; ingatherings from our history and literature . Courteous Reader, Hereas I was fully determined to have con-cealed my Sonnets as tilings privy to myself;yet, of courtesy, having lent them to some,they were secretly committed to the Piess and almostfinished, before it came to my knowledge. Wherefore making, as they say. Virtue of Necessity,I did deem it most convenient to prepose ?ny Epistle, ^;z/)/to beseech you to acco2int of them as of toys and amorousdevices; and, ere long, 1 will impart unto the Worldanother Poem, which shall be both more fruitfuland ponderotcs. In the mean while, I commit these, as a pledge, to youri7idifferent censures. London, 1594. W. PERCY. ^ «^^ -j^ j^ u^ V 138. 139
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