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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14822	The hekatompathia or Passionate centurie of loue diuided into two parts: whereof, the first expresseth the authors sufferance in loue: the latter, his long farewell to loue and all his tyrannie. Composed by Thomas Watson Gentleman; and published at the request of certaine gentlemen his very frendes.	Watson, Thomas, 1557?-1592.	1582 (1582)	STC 25118A; ESTC S111606	56,583	120

THE ἙΚΑΤΟΜΠΑΘΊΑ OR PASSIONATE Centurie of Loue Diuided into two parts whereof the first expresseth the Authors sufferance in Loue the latter his long farewell to Loue and all his tyrannie Composed by Thomas Watson Gentleman and published at the request of certaine Gentlemen his very frendes LONDON ¶ Imprinted by Iohn Wolfe for Gabriell Cawood dwellinge in Paules Churchyard at the Signe of the Holy Ghost To the Right Honorable my very good Lord Edward de Vere Earle of Oxenford Vicount Bulbecke Lord of Escales and Badlesmere and Lord High Chamberlaine of England all happinesse ALexander the Great passing on a time by the workeshop of Apelles curiouslie surueyed some of his doings whose long stay in viewing them brought all the people into so great a good liking of the painters workemanship that immediatelie after they bought vp all his pictures what price soeuer he set them at And the like good happe Right Honorable befel vnto mee latelie concerning these my Loue Passions which then chaunced to Apelles for his Portraites For since the world hath vnderstood I know not how that your Honor had willinglie voutchsafed the acceptance of this worke and at conuenient leisures fauourablie perused it being as yet but in written hand many haue oftentimes and earnestly called vpon mee to put it to the presse that for their mony they might but see what your Lordship with some liking had alreadie perused And therewithall some of them said either to yeeld your Honour his due prayse for soundnes of iudgement or to please me of whome long since they had conceiued well that Alexander would like of no lines but such as were drawen by the cunning hand and with the curious pensill of Apelles VVhich I set not downe here to that end that I would conferre my Poemes with Apelles Portraites for worthinesse albeit I fitlie compare your Honors person with Alexanders for excellencie But how bold soeuer I haue bene in turning out this my pettie poore flocke vpon the open Common of the wide world where euerie man may behold their nakednesse I humbly make request that if any storme fall vnlooked for by the fault of malicious high foreheads or the poyson of euill edged tongues these my little ones maye shrowde themselues vnder the broad leafed Platane of your Honours patronage And thus at this present I humbly take my leaue but first wishing the continuall encrease of your Lordships honour with abundance of true Friends reconciliation of all Foes and what good soeuer tendeth vnto perfect happines Your Lordships humbly at commaund Thomas VVatson To the frendly Reader COurteous Reader if anie thing herein either please or profitte thee afforde me thy good worde in recompence of my paines if ought offend or hurt thee I desire that thou forget the one and forgiue the other This toye being liked the next may prooue better being discouraged wil cut of the likeliehood of my trauaile to come But by that meanes all will be well and both parties pleased For neither shall I repent my labour in the like nor thou be anie more troubled with my faultes or follies Yet for this once I hope thou wilt in respect of my trauaile in penning these louepassions or for pitie of my paines in suffering them although but supposed so suruey the faultes herein escaped as eyther to winke at them as ouersightes of a blinde Louer or to excuse them as idle toyes proceedinge from a youngling frenzie or lastlie to defend them by saying it is nothing Praeter decorum for a maiemed man to halt in his pase where his wound enforceth him or for a Poete to falter in his Poëme whē his matter requireth it Homer in mētioning the swiftnes of the winde maketh his verse to runne in posthaste all vpon Dactilus and Virgill in expressing the striking downe of an oxe letteth the end of his hexameter fall withall Procumbit humibos Therefore if I roughhewed my verse where my sense was vnsetled whether through the nature of the passion which I felt or by rule of art which I had learned it may seeme a happie fault or if it were so framed by counsell thou mayest thinke it well donne if by chaunce happelie Yet write I not this to excuse my selfe of such errours as are escaped eyther by dotage or ignorance but those I referre to thy gentle curtisie and fauourable construction or lay manie of them vpon the Printers necke whom I would blame by his owne presse if he would suffer me As for any Aristarchus Momus or Zoilus if they pinch me more then is reasonable thou courteous Reader which arte of a better disposition shalt rebuke them in my behalfe saying to the first that my birdes are al of mine own hatching and that my onelie ouermuch hast made Sol angrie in theire Birthday to the second that although Venus be in my verse yet her slipper is left out to the last and worst that I rather take vpon me to write better then Chaerilus then once suppose to imitate Homer I am ouer long as well for the feare I had to be bitten by such as are captious as for the desire I haue to please thee that art frendlie But since I now wel remember me that nothing is more easlie let flowne nothing soner dispersed nothing later recalled backe againe then the bitter blast of an euill spoaken man and that he whome it shall hurt hath no recure but by patience I will set it behinde my heele as a hurt remedilesse or els when it comes salue it vp with patience In the meane space curteous Reader I once againe craue thy fauourable iudgement and so for breuitie sake abruptlie make an end committing the to God and my worke to thy fauour Thine as thou art his Thomas Watson Iohn Lyly to the Authour his friend MY good friend I haue read your new passions and they haue renewed mine old pleasures the which brought to me no lesse delight thē they haue done to your selfe commendations And certes had not one of mine eies about serious affaires beene watchfull both by being too too busie had beene wanton such is the nature of persuading pleasure that it melteth the marrowe before it scorch the skin and burneth before it warmeth Not vnlike vnto the oyle of Ieat which rotteth the bone and neuer ranckleth the flesh or the Scarab flies which enter into the roote and neuer touch the rinde And whereas you desire to haue my opinion you may imagine that my stomake is rather cloyed then quesie therfore mine appetite of lesse force thē mine affection fearing rather a surfet of sweetenes then desiring a satisfying The repeating of Loue wrought in me a remembrance of liking but serching the very vaines of my hearte I could finde nothing but a broad scarre where I left a deepe wounde and loose stringes where I tyed hard knots and a table of steele where I framed a plot of wax Whereby I noted that young swannes are grey the olde white yoūg