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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A68619	The arte of English poesie Contriued into three bookes: the first of poets and poesie, the second of proportion, the third of ornament.	Puttenham, George, d. 1590.; Puttenham, Richard, 1520?-1601?, attributed name.; Lumley, John Lumley, Baron, 1534?-1609, attributed name.	1589 (1589)	STC 20519.5; ESTC S110571	205,111	267

A colei Che se stessa rassomiglia non altrui THE ARTE OF ENGLISH POESIE Contriued into three Bookes The first of Poets and Poesie the second of Proportion the third of Ornament ·ANCHORA· SPEI· AT LONDON Printed by Richard Field dwelling in the black-Friers neere Ludgate 1589. TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE SIR VVILLIAM 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 comming 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 stād with my dutie nor be without some preiudice to her Maiesties interest and his merrite Perceyuing besides the title to purport so slender a subiect as nothing almost could be more discrepant from the grauitie of your yeeres and Honorable function whose contemplations are euery houre more seriously employed vpon the publicke adminisration and seruices I thought it no condigne gratification nor scarce any good satisfaction for such a person as you Yet when I considered that bestowyng vpon your Lordship the first vewe of this mine impression a feat of mine owne simple facultie it could not scypher her Maiesties honour or prerogatiue in the guift nor yet the Authour of his thanks and seeing the thing it selfe to be a deuice of some noueltie which commonly giueth euery good thing a speciall grace and a noueltie so highly tending to the most worthy prayses of her Maiesties most excellent name deerer to you I dare conceiue them any worldly thing besides mee thought I could not deuise to haue presented your Lordship any gift more agreeable to your appetite or fitter for my vocation and abilitie to bestow your Lordship beyng learned and a louer of learning my present a Booke and my selfe a printer alwaies ready and desirous to be at your Honourable commaundement And thus I humbly take my leaue from the Black-friers this xxviij of May. 1589. Your Honours most humble at commaundement R. F. THE FIRST BOOKE Of Poets and Poesie CHAP. I. What a Poet and Poesie is and who may be worthily sayd the most excellent Poet of our time A Poet is as much to say as a maker And our English name well conformes with the Greeke word for of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to make they call a maker Poeta Such as by way of resemblance and reuerently we may say of God who without any trauell to his diuine imagination made all the world of nought nor also by any paterne or mould as the Platonicks with their Idees do phantastically suppose Euē so the very Poet makes and contriues out of his owne braine both the verse and matter of his poeme and not by any foreine copie or example as doth the translator who therefore may well be sayd a versifier but not a Poet. The premises considered it giueth to the name and profession no smal dignitie and preheminence aboue all other artificers Scientificke or Mechanicall And neuerthelesse without any repugnancie at all a Poet may in some sort be said a follower or imitator because he can expresse the true and liuely of euery thing is set before him and which he taketh in hand to describe and so in that respect is both a maker and a counterfaitor and Poesie an art not only of making but also of imitation And this science in his perfection can not grow but by some diuine instinct the Platonicks call it furor or by excellencie of nature and complexion or by great subtiltie of the spirits wit or by much experience and obseruation of the world and course of kinde or peraduenture by all or most part of them Otherwise how was it possible that Homer being but a poore priuate man and as some say in his later age blind should so exactly set foorth and describe as if he had bene a most excellent Captaine or Generall the order and array of battels the conduct of whole armies the sieges and assaults of cities and townes or as some great Princes maiordome and perfect Surueyour in Court the order sumptuousnesse and magnificence of royal bankets feasts weddings and enteruewes or as a Polititian very prudent and much inured with the priuat and publique affaires so grauely examine the lawes and ordinances Ciuill or so profoundly discourse in matters of estate and formes of all politique regiment Finally how could he so naturally paint out the speeches countenance and maners of Princely persons and priuate to wit the wrath of Achilles the magnanimitie of Agamemnon the prudence of Menelaus the prowesse of Hector the maiestie of king Priamus the grauitie of Nestor the pollicies and eloquence of Vlysses the calamities of the distressed Queenes and valiance of all the Captaines and aduenturous knights in those lamentable warres of Troy It is therefore of Poets thus to be conceiued that if they be able to deuise and make all these things of them selues without any subiect of veritie that they be by maner of speech as creating gods If they do it by instinct diuine or naturall then surely much fauoured from aboue If by their experience then no doubt very wise men If by any president or paterne layd before them then truly the most excellent imitators counterfaitors of all others But you Madame my most Honored and Gracious if I should seeme to offer you this my deuise for a discipline and not a delight I might well be reputed of all others the most arrogant and iniurious your selfe being alreadie of any that I know in our time the most excellent Poet. Forsooth by your Princely purse fauours and countenance making in maner what ye list the poore man rich the lewd well learned the coward couragious and vile both noble and valiant Then for imitation no lesse your person as a most cunning counterfaitor liuely representing Venus in countenance in life Diana Pallas for gouernement and Iuno in all honour and regall magnificence CHAP. II. That there may be an Art of our English Poesie aswell as there is of the Latine and Greeke THen as there was no art in the world till by experience found out so if Poesie be now an Art of al antiquitie hath bene among the Greeks and Latines yet were none vntill by studious persons fashioned and reduced into a method of rules precepts then no doubt may there be the like with vs. And if th' art of Poesie be but a skill appertaining to vtterance why may not the same be with vs aswel as with them our language being no lesse copious pithie and significatiue then theirs our conceipts the same and our