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A19165 Hypnerotomachia. = The strife of loue in a dreame; Hypnerotomachia Poliphili. English Colonna, Francesco, d. 1527.; R. D.; Dallington, Robert, 1561-1637, attributed name. 1592 (1592) STC 5577; ESTC S105038 134,470 199

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HYPNEROTOMACHIA THE Strife of Loue in a Dreame At London Printed for Simon Waterson and are to be sold at his shop in S. Paules Church-yard at Cheape-gate 1592. TO THE THRISE HONOVRABLE AND EVER LYVING VERTVES OF SYR PHILLIP SYDNEY KNIGHT AND TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE AND OTHERS WHATSOEVER WHO LIVING LOVED HIM AND BEING DEAD GIVE HIM HIS DVE To the Right Honourable Robert Deuorax Earle of Essex and Ewe Viscount Hereford and Bourghchier Lorde Ferrers of Chartley Bourghchier and Louaine Maister of the Queenes Maiesties Horse and Knight of the most noble order of the Garter Is wished the perfection of all happinesse and tryumphant felicitie in this life and in the worlde to come WHen I had determined Right honorable to dedicate this Booke to the euerlyuing vertues of that matchlesse Knight Syr Phillip Sydney me thought that I could not finde out a more Noble personage then your selfe and more fit to patronize shield and defende my dutie to the deade then your Honour whose greatnes is such and vertues of that power as who so commendeth them deserueth not to be accounted a flatterer but he that doth not the same may be thought an euill willer Hovv your Honor vvill accept hereof I make no doubt because that curtesie attendeth vpon true nobilitie but my humble request is that your Honor may not thinke of me by the tytle of the Booke and some part of the discourse as if I vvere amorous and did speake according to my ovvne passions for I beeing restrained of my liberty and helde in the graue of obliuion where I still as yet remaine oppressed with Melancholie and wearied vvith deeper studies I vvas glad to beguile the time with these conceits anothomising in them the vanitie of this life and vncertaintie of the delights therof in the Dreame of Poliphilus Which if it shall please your Honor at conuenient leysure to looke ouer pardoning what you finde amisse and weighing my good will I shall thinke my selfe most happy And thus I humbly take my leaue vntill that I may present your Honour with a matter more fitting the same Your Honors deuoted R. D. ❧ A nonymi elegia ad Lectorem CAndide Poliphilum narrantem somnia Lector auscultes summo somnia missa polo Non operam perdes non haec audisse pigebit tam varijs mirum rebus abundat opus Si grauis tetricus contemnis erotica rerum nosce precor seriem tam bene dispositam Abnuis ac saltem stylus noua lingua novusque sermo grauis sophia se rogat aspicias Id quoque si renuis geometrica cerne vetusta plurima milliacis disce referta notis Hic sunt Pyramides thermae ingentesque Col●ssi ac Obeliscorum forma vetusta patet Hic diuersa basis fulget variaeque columnae illarumque arcus Zophora epistilia Et capita atque trabes et cum quadrante coronae symmetria quicquid tecta superba facit Hic regum cernes exculta palatia cultus Nympharum fontes egregiasque epulas Hinc bicolor chorea est latronum expressaque tota in Laberintheis vita hominum tenebris Hinc lege de triplici quae maiestate tonantis dicat in portis egerit ipse tribus Polia qua fuerit forma quam culta tryumphos inde Iouis specta quatuor aethereos Haec praeter varios affectus narrat amoris atque opera quantum saeuiat ille Deus ❧ Faultes escaped in the printing Fol. page line faults correction Fol. page line faultes correction 1. 2 38 I begin of the I began the. 21 1 38 subuaging suruaighing 4. 2 8 member members 21 2 2 sardins sardius 6. 1 12 troake trunke 22 1 7 vanubraces vaumbraces 6. 2 3 assured azur'd 22 1 12 coronie coronice 7. 1 33 f●ing flying 22 2 18 Daphus Daphne 10 1 23 Laborinth Laborinths 22 1 28 chanifered chamfered 10 2 20 Palia Polia 22 1 30 contract contrast 11 1 2 foote fowre 22 2 29 Achanthis Achanthis 11 1 29 cariec carrier 23 1 12 hapies Harpies 11 2 3 backs backe 23 1 15 fishen fishie 12 1 11 peeee peece 23 2 4 did Anaglipts did y e Anaglipts 13 1 3 adolestency adolescency 23 2 5 Briapis Briaxes 13 1 5 soliature foliature 24 2 22 Andraene Andracine 14 1 29 stone sonne 24 2 32 bel flowred fox bell-flowre 19 2 12 soliature foliature 26 2 2 menifis gloue memphis 19 2 25 briganine brigandine 26 2 34 which my which with my 19 2 39 all off 28 2 8 vastus vastnes Poliphili hypnerotomachia Wherein he sheweth that all humaine and worldlie things are but a dreame and but as vanitie it selfe In the setting foorth whereof many things are figured worthie of remembrance The Author beginneth his Hypnerotomachia to set downe the hower and time when in his sleepe it seemed to him that hee was in a quiet solitarie desart and vninhabited plaine and from thence afterward how he entered vnaduisedly before he was aware with great feare into a darke obscure and vnfrequented wood The discription of the morning WHat houre as Phoebus issuing foorth did bewtifie with brightnesse the forhead of Leucothea and appearing out of the Occean waues not fully shewing his turning wheeles that had beene hung vp but speedily with his swift horses Pyrous Eous hastning his course and giuing a tincture to the Spiders webbes among the greene leaues and tender prickles of the Vermilion Roses in the pursuite whereof he shewed himselfe most swift glistering now vpon the neuer resting and still moouing waues he crysped vp his irradient heyres Vppon whose vprising euen at that instant the vnhorned Moone dismounted hir selfe losing from hir Chariot hir two horses the one white and the other browne and drewe to the Horrison different from the Hemisphere from whence she came And when as the mountaines and hilles were beautifull and the northeast winds had left of to make barraine with the sharpnesse of their blasts the tender sprigs to disquiet the moouing reedes the fenny Bulrush and weake Cyprus to torment the foulding Vines to trouble the bending Willowe and to breake downe the brittle Firre bowghes vnder the hornes of the lasciuious Bull as they do in winter At that very houre as the diuers coulered flowers and greene meades at the comming of the sunne of Hypperion feare not his burning heate being bedued and sprinkled with the Christalline teares of the sweete morning when as the Halcyons vpon the leuell waues of the stil calme and quiet flowing seas do build their nests in sight of the sandie shore whereas the sorrowfull Ero with scalding sighes did behold the dolorous and vngrate departure of hir swimming Leander I lying vpon my bed an oportune and meet freend to a wearie body no creature accompaning me in my chamber besides the attender vppon my body and vsuall night lights who after that she had vsed diuers speeches to the end shee might comfort me hauing vnderstood before of me the