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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

AN APOLOGIE for Poetrie Written by the right noble vertuous and learned Sir Phillip Sidney Knight Odi profanum vulgus et arceo AT LONDON Printed for Henry Olney and are to be sold at his shop in Paules Church-yard at the signe of the George neere to Cheap-gate Anno. 1595. Foure Sonnets written by Henrie Constable to Sir Phillip Sidneys soule GIue pardon blessed Soule to my bold cryes If they importund interrupt thy song Which nowe with ioyfull notes thou sing'st among The Angel-Quiristers of heau'nly skyes Giue pardon eake sweet Soule to my flow cries That since I saw thee now it is so long And yet the teares that vnto thee belong To thee as yet they did not sacrifice I did not know that thou wert dead before I did not feele the griefe I did susteine The greater stroke astonisheth the more Astonishment takes from vs sence of paine I stood amaz'd when others teares begun And now begin to weepe when they haue doone SWeet Soule which now with heau'nly songs doost tel Thy deare Redeemers glory and his prayse No meruaile though thy skilfull Muse assayes The songs of other soules there to excell For thou didst learne to sing diuinely well Long time before thy fayre and glittering rayes Encreas'd the light of heau'n for euen thy layes Most heauenly were when thou on earth didst dwel When thou didst on the earth sing Poet-wise Angels in heau'n pray'd for thy company And now thou sing'st with Angels in the skies Shall not all Poets praise thy memory And to thy name shall not their works giue fame When as their works be sweetned by thy name EVen as when great mens heires cannot agree So eu'ry vertne now for part of thee doth sue Courage prooues by thy death thy hart to be his due Eloquence claimes thy tongue and so doth courtesy Inuention knowledge sues Iudgment sues memory Each saith thy head is his and what end shall ensue Of this strife know I not but this I know for true That whosoeuer gaines the sute the losse haue wee Wee I meane all the world the losse to all pertaineth Yea they which gaine doe loose and onely thy soule gaineth For loosing of one life two liues are gained then Honor thy courage mou'd courage thy death did giue Death courage honor makes thy soule to liue Thy soule to liue in heau'n thy name in tongues of men GReat Alexander then did well declare How great was his vnited Kingdomes might When eu'ry Captaine of his Army might After his death with mighty Kings compare So now we see after thy death how far Thou dost in worth surpasse each other Knight When we admire him as no mortall wight In whom the least of all thy vertues are One did of Macedon the King become Another sat in the Egiptian throne But onely Alexanders selfe had all So curteous some and some be liberall Some witty wise valiaunt and learned some But King of all the vertues thou alone Henry Constable To the Reader THE stormie Winter deere Chyldren of the Muses which hath so long held backe the glorious Sun-shine of diuine Poesie is heere by the sacred penbreathing words of diuine Sir Phillip Sidney not onely chased from our fame-inuiting Clyme but vtterly for euer banisht eternitie then graciously regreet the perpetuall spring of euer-growing inuention and like kinde Babes either enabled by wit or power help to support me poore Midwife whose daring aduenture hath deliuered frō Obliuions wombe this euer-to-beadmired wits miracle Those great ones who in thēselues haue interr'd this blessed innocent wil with Aesculapius cōdemne me as a detractor frō their Deities those who Prophet-like haue but heard presage of his cōming wil if they wil doe wel not onely defend but praise mee as the first publique bewrayer of Poesies Musaeus Those who neither haue seene thereby to interre nor heard by which they might be inflamed with desire to see let them of duty plead to be my Champions sith both theyr sight and hearing by mine incurring blame is seasoned Excellent Poesie so created by this Apologie be thou my Defendresse and if any wound mee let thy beautie my soules Adamant recure mee if anie commend mine endeuored hardiment to them commend thy most diuinest fury as a winged incouragement so shalt thou haue deuoted to thee and to them obliged Henry Olney Faults escaped thus corrected D. 3. pag. 1. line 12. for fruitlesse read fruitfull D. 3. pag. 2. line 23. for maddesse read madnes E. 1. pag. 1. line 18. for marke read mark's E. 1. pag. 2. line 6. for Candida read Canidia E. 4. pag. 1. line 21. for humiane read humane I. 1. pag. 2. line 4. betweene Poetas and republica put in I. 4. pag. 1. line 20. for conabor read conabar and for discere read dicere An Apologie for POETRIE WHen the right vertuous Edward VVotton I were at the Emperors Court together wee gaue our selues to learne horsemanship of Iohn Pietro Pugliano one that with great commendation had the place of an Esquire in his stable And hee according to the fertilnes of the Italian wit did not onely afoord vs the demonstration of his practise but sought to enrich our mindes with the contemplations therein which hee thought most precious But with none I remember mine eares were at any time more loden then when either angred with slowe paiment or mooued with our learner-like admiration he exercised his speech in the prayse of his facultie Hee sayd Souldiours were the noblest estate of mankinde and horsemen the noblest of Souldiours Hee sayde they were the Maisters of warre and ornaments of peace speedy goers and strong abiders triumphers both in Camps Courts Nay to so vnbeleeued a poynt hee proceeded as that no earthly thing bred such wonder to a Prince as to be a good horseman Skill of gouernment was but a Pedanteria in comparison thē would hee adde certaine prayses by telling what a peerlesse beast a horse was The onely seruiceable Courtier without flattery the beast of most beutie faithfulnes courage and such more that if I had not beene a peece of a Logician before I came to him I think he would haue perswaded mee to haue wished my selfe a horse But thus much at least with his no fewe words hee draue into me that selfe-loue is better then any guilding to make that seeme gorgious wherein our selues are parties VVherin if Pugliano his strong affection and weake arguments will not satisfie you I wil giue you a neerer example of my selfe who I knowe not by what mischance in these my not old yeres idelest times hauing slipt into the title of a Poet am prouoked to say somthing vnto you in the defence of that my vnelected vocation which if I handle with more good will then good reasons beare with me sith the scholler is to be pardoned that foloweth the steppes of his Maister And yet I must say that as I haue iust cause to make a pittiful defence of poore Poetry