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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12224	An apologie for poetrie. VVritten by the right noble, vertuous, and learned, Sir Phillip Sidney, Knight; Defence of poetry	Sidney, Philip, Sir, 1554-1586.	1595 (1595)	STC 22534; ESTC S111043	39,253	86

for whatsoeuer action or faction whatsoeuer counsell pollicy or warre stratagem the Historian is bound to recite that may the Poet if he list with his imitation make his own beautifying it both for further teaching and more delighting as it pleaseth him hauing all from Dante his heauen to hys hell vnder the authoritie of his penne VVhich if I be asked what Poets haue done so as I might well name some yet say I and say againe I speak of the Arte and not of the Artificer Nowe to that which commonly is attributed to the prayse of histories in respect of the notable learning is gotten by marking the successe as though therein a man should see vertue exalted and vice punished Truely that commendation is peculiar to Poetrie and farre of from History For indeede Poetrie euer setteth vertue so out in her best cullours making Fortune her wel-wayting hand-mayd that one must needs be enamored of her VVell may you see Vlisses in a storme and in other hard plights but they are but exercises of patience magnanimitie to make them shine the more in the neere-following prosperitie And of the contrarie part if euill men come to the stage they euer goe out as the Tragedie VVriter answered to one that misliked the shew of such persons so manacled as they little animate folkes to followe them But the Historian beeing captiued to the trueth of a foolish world is many times a terror frō well dooing and an incouragement to vnbrideled wickednes For see wee not valiant Milciades rot in his fetters The iust Phocion and the accomplished Socrates put to death like Traytors The cruell Seuerus liue prosperously The excellent Seuerus miserably murthered Sylla and Marius dying in theyr beddes Pompey and Cicero slaine then when they would haue thought exile a happinesse See wee not vertuous Cato driuen to kyll himselfe and rebell Caesar so aduaunced that his name yet after 1600. yeeres lasteth in the highest honor And marke but euen Caesars own words of the fore-named Sylla who in that onely did honestly to put downe his dishonest tyrannie Literas nesciuit as if want of learning caused him to doe well Hee meant it not by Poetrie which not content with earthly plagues deuiseth new punishments in hel for Tyrants nor yet by Philosophie which teacheth Occidendos esse but no doubt by skill in Historie for that indeede can affoord you Cipselus Periander Phalaris Dionisius and I know not how many more of the same kennell that speede well enough in theyr abhominable vniustice or vsurpation I conclude therefore that hee excelleth Historie not onely in furnishing the minde with knowledge but in setting it forward to that which deserueth to be called and accounted good which setting forward and moouing to well dooing indeed setteth the Lawrell crowne vpon the Poet as victorious not onely of the Historian but ouer the Phylosopher howsoeuer in teaching it may bee questionable For suppose it be granted that which I suppose with great reason may be denied that the Philosopher in respect of his methodical proceeding doth teach more perfectly then the Poet yet do I thinke that no man is so much Philophilosophos as to compare the Philosopher in moouing with the Poet. And that moouing is of a higher degree then teaching it may by this appeare that it is wel nigh the cause and the effect of teaching For who will be taught if hee bee not mooued with desire to be taught and what so much good doth that teaching bring forth I speak still of morrall doctrine as that it mooueth one to doe that which it dooth teach for as Aristotle sayth it is not Gnosis but Praxis must be the fruit And howe Praxis cannot be without being mooued to practise it is no hard matter to consider The Philosopher sheweth you the way hee informeth you of the particularities as well of the tediousnes of the way as of the pleasant lodging you shall haue when your iourney is ended as of the many by-turnings that may diuert you from your way But this is to no man but to him that will read him and read him with attentiue studious painfulnes VVhich constant desire whosoeuer hath in him hath already past halfe the hardnes of the way and therefore is beholding to the Philosopher but for the other halfe Nay truely learned men haue learnedly thought that where once reason hath so much ouer-mastred passion as that the minde hath a a free desire to doe well the inward light each minde hath in it selfe is as good as a Philosophers booke seeing in nature we know it is wel to doe well and what is well and what is euill although not in the words of Arte which Philosophers bestowe vpon vs. For out of naturall conceit the Philosophers drew it but to be moued to doe that which wee know or to be mooued with desire to knowe Hoc opus Hic labor est Nowe therein of all Sciences I speak still of humiane according to the humiane conceits is our Poet the Monarch For he dooth not only show the way but giueth so sweete a prospect into the way as will intice any man to enter into it Nay he dooth as if your iourney should lye through a fayre Vineyard at the first giue you a cluster of Grapes that full of that taste you may long to passe further He beginneth not with obscure definitions which must blur the margent with interpretations and load the memory with doubtfulnesse but hee commeth to you with words set in delightfull proportion either accompanied with or prepared for the well inchaunting skill of Musicke and with a tale forsooth he commeth vnto you with a tale which holdeth children from play and old men from the chimney corner And pretending no more doth intende the winning of the mind from wickednesse to vertue euen as the childe is often brought to take most wholsom things by hiding them in such other as haue a pleasant tast which if one should beginne to tell them the nature of Aloes or Rubarb they shoulde receiue woulde sooner take their Phisicke at their eares then at their mouth So is it in men most of which are childish in the best things till they bee cradled in their graues glad they will be to heare the tales of Hercules Achilles Cyrus and Aeneas and hearing them must needs heare the right description of wisdom valure and iustice which if they had been barely that is to say Philosophically set out they would sweare they bee brought to schoole againe That imitation wherof Poetry is hath the most conueniency to Nature of all other in somuch that as Aristotle sayth those things which in themselues are horrible as cruell battailes vnnaturall Monsters are made in poeticall imitation delightfull Truely I haue knowen men that euen with reading Amadis de Gaule which God knoweth wanteth much of a perfect Poesie haue found their harts mooued to the exercise of courtesie liberalitie and especially courage VVho readeth Aeneas carrying olde