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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

weight then another And as we lamented the crueltie of an inexorable and vnfaithfull mistresse If by the lavves of loue it be a falt The faithfull friend in absence to forget But if it be once do thy heart but halt A secret sinne vvhat forfet is so great As by despite in view of euery eye The solemne vovves oft svvorne vvith teares so salt And holy Leagues fast seald vvith hand and hart For to repeale and breake so vvilfully But novv alas vvithout all iust desart My lot is for my troth and much good vvill To reape disdaine hatred and rude refuse Or if ye vvould vvorke me some greater ill And of myne earned ioyes to feele no part What els is this ô cruell but to vse Thy murdring knife the guiltlesse bloud to spill Where ye see how she is charged first with a fault then with a a secret sinne afterward with a foule forfet last of all with a most cruell bloudy deede And thus againe in a certaine louers complaint made to the like effect They say it is a ruth to see thy louer neede But you can see me vveepe but you can see me bleede And neuer shrinke nor shame ne shed no teare at all You make my wounds your selfe and fill them vp with gall Yea you can see me sound and faint for want of breath And gaspe and grone for life and struggle still with death What can you now do more sweare by your maydenhead Then for to flea me quicke or strip me being dead In these verses you see how one crueltie surmounts another by degrees till it come to very slaughter and beyond for it is thought a despite done to a dead carkas to be an euidence of greater crueltie then to haue killed him After the Auancer followeth the abbaser working by wordes and sentences of extenuation or diminution Meiosis or the Disabler Whereupon we call him the Disabler or figure of Extenuation and this extenuation is vsed to diuers purposes sometimes for modesties sake and to auoide the opinion of arrogancie speaking of our selues or of ours as he that disabled himselfe to his mistresse thus Not all the skill I haue to speake or do Which litle is God wot set loue apart Liueload nor life and put them both thereto Can counterpeise the due of your desart It may be also done for despite to bring our aduersaries in contempt as he that sayd by one commended for a very braue souldier disabling him scornefully thus A ●●●ise man forsooth and fit for the warre Good at hand grippes better to fight a farre Whom bright weapon in shevv as it is said Yea his ovvne shade hath often made afraide The subtilitie of the scoffe lieth in these Latin wordes eminus cominus pugnare Also we vse this kind of Extenuation when we take in hand to comfort or cheare any perillous enterprise making a great matter seeme small and of litle difficultie is much vsed by captaines in the warre when they to giue courage to their souldiers will seeme to disable the persons of their enemies and abase their forces and make light of euery thing that might be a discouragement to the attempt as Hanniball did in his Oration to his souldiers when they should come to passe the Alpes to enter Italie and for sharpnesse of the weather and steepnesse of the mountaines their hearts began to faile them We vse it againe to excuse a fault to make an offence seeme lesse then it is by giuing a terme more fauorable and of lesse vehemencie then the troth requires as to say of a great robbery that it was but a pilfry matter of an arrant ruffian that he is a tall fellow of his hands of a prodigall foole that he is a kind hearted man of a notorious vnthrift a lustie youth and such like phrases of extenuation which fall more aptly to the office of the figure Curry fauell before remembred And we vse the like termes by way of pleasant familiaritie and as it were for a Courtly maner of speach with our egalls or inferiours as to call a young Gentlewoman Mall for Mary Nell for Elner Iack for Iohn Robin for Robert or any other like affected termes spoken of pleasure as in our triumphals calling familiarly vpon our Muse I called her Moppe But vvill you vveet My litle muse my prettie moppe If vve shall algates change our stoppe Chose me a svveet Vnderstanding by this word Moppe a litle prety Lady or tender young thing For so we call litle fishes that be not come to their full growth moppes as whiting moppes gurnard moppes Also such termes are vsed to be giuen in derision and for a kind of contempt as when we say Lording for Lord as the Spaniard that calleth an Earle of small reuenue Contadilio the Italian calleth the poore man by contempt pouerachio or pouerino the little beast animalculo or animaluchio and such like diminutiues apperteining to this figure the Disabler more ordinary in other languages than in our vulgar This figure of retire holds part with the propounder of which we spake before prolepsis because of the resumption of a former proposition vttered in generalitie to explane the same better by a particular diuision Epanodis or the figure of Retire But their difference is in that the propounder resumes but the matter only This retire resumes both the matter and the termes and is therefore accompted one of the figures of repetition and in that respect may be called by his originall Greeke name the Resounde or the retire for this word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 serues both sences resound and retire The vse of this figure is seen in this dittie following Loue hope and death do stirre in me much strife As neuer man but I lead such a life For burning loue doth vvound my heart to death And vvhen death comes at call of invvard grief Cold lingring hope doth feede my fainting breath Against my vvill and yeelds my vvound relief So that I liue but yet my life is such As neuer death could greeue me halfe so much Then haue ye a maner of speach Dialisis or the Dismembrer not so figuratiue as fit for argumentation and worketh not vnlike the dilemma of the Logicians because he propones two or moe matters entierly and doth as it were set downe the whole tale or rekoning of an argument and then cleare euery part by it selfe as thus It can not be but nigardship or neede Made him attempt this foule and vvicked deede Nigardship not for alvvayes he vvas free Nor neede for vvho doth not his richesse see Or as one that entreated for a faire young maide who was taken by the watch in London and carried to Bridewell to be punished Novv gentill Sirs let this young maide alone For either she hath grace of els she hath none If she haue grace she may in time repent If she haue none vvhat bootes her punishment Or as another pleaded his deserts

And they be of diuerse sorts and vpon diuerse occasions growne one the chiefe was for the publike peace of a countrie the greatest of any other ciuill good And wherein your Maiestie my most gracious Soueraigne haue shewed your selfe to all the world for this one and thirty yeares space of your glorious raigne aboue all other Princes of Christendome not onely fortunate but also most sufficient vertuous and worthy of Empire An other is for iust honourable victory atchieued against the forraine enemy A third at solemne feasts and pompes of coronations and enstallments of honourable orders An other for iollity at weddings and marriages An other at the births of Princes children An other for priuate entertainements in Court or other secret disports in chamber and such solitary places And as these reioysings tend to diuers effects so do they also carry diuerse formes and nominations for those of victorie and peace are called Triumphall whereof we our selues haue heretofore giuen some example by our Triumphals written in honour of her Maiesties long peace And they were vsed by the auncients in like manner as we do our generall processions or Letanies with bankets and bonefires and all manner of ioyes Those that were to honour the persons of great Princes or to solemnise the pompes of any installment were called Encomia we may call them carols of honour Those to celebrate marriages were called songs nuptiall or Epithalamies but in a certaine misticall sense as shall be said hereafter Others for magnificence at the natiuities of Princes children or by custome vsed yearely vpon the same dayes are called songs natall or Genethliaca Others for secret recreation and pastime in chambers with company or alone were the ordinary Musickes amorous such as might be song with voice or to the Lute Citheron or Harpe or daunced by measures as the Italian Pauan and galliard are at these daies in Princes Courts and other places of honourable or ciuill assembly and of all these we will speake in order and very briefly CHAP. XXIIII The forme of Poeticall lamentations LAmenting is altogether contrary to reioising euery man saith so and yet is it a peece of ioy to be able to lament with ease and freely to poure forth a mans inward sorrowes and the greefs wherewith his minde is surcharged This was a very necessary deuise of the Poet and a fine besides his poetrie to play also the Phisitian and not onely by applying a medicine to the ordinary sicknes of mankind but by making the very greef it selfe in part cure of the disease Nowe are the causes of mans sorrowes many the death of his parents frends allies and children though many of the barbarous nations do reioyce at their burials and sorrow at their birthes the ouerthrowes and discomforts in battell the subuersions of townes and cities the desolations of countreis the losse of goods and worldly promotions honour and good renowne finally the trauails and torments of loue forlorne or ill bestowed either by disgrace deniall delay and twenty other wayes that well experienced louers could recite Such of these greefs as might be refrained or holpen by wisedome and the parties owne good endeuour the Poet gaue none order to sorrow them for first as to the good renowne it is lost for the more part by some default of the owner and may be by his well doings recouered againe And if it be vniustly taken away as by vntrue and famous libels the offenders recantation may suffise for his amends so did the Poet Stesichorus as it is written of him in his Pallinodie vpon the disprayse of Helena and recouered his eye sight Also for worldly goods they come and go as things not long proprietary to any body and are not yet subiect vnto fortunes dominion so but that we our selues are in great part accessarie to our own losses and hinderaunces by ouersight misguiding of our selues and our things therefore why should we bewaile our such voluntary detriment But death the irrecouerable losse death the dolefull departure of frendes that can neuer be recontinued by any other meeting or new acquaintance Besides our vncertaintie and suspition of their estates and welfare in the places of their new abode seemeth to carry a reasonable pretext of iust sorrow Likewise the great ouerthrowes in battell and desolations of countreys by warres aswell for the losse of many liues and much libertie as for that it toucheth the whole state and euery priuate man hath his portion in the damage Finally for loue there is no frailtie in flesh and bloud so excusable as it no comfort or discomfort greater then the good and bad successe thereof nothing more naturall to man nothing of more force to vanquish his will and to inuegle his iudgement Therefore of death and burials of th'aduersities by warres and of true loue lost or ill bestowed are th' onely sorrowes that the noble Poets sought by their arte to remoue or appease not with any medicament of a contrary temper as the Galemstes vse to cure contraria contrarijs but as the Paracelsians who cure similia similibus making one dolour to expell another and in this case one short sorrowing the remedie of a long and grieuous sorrow And the lamenting of deathes was chiefly at the very burialls of the dead also at monethes mindes and longer times by custome continued yearely when as they vsed many offices of seruice and loue towardes the dead and thereupon are called Obsequies in our vulgare which was done not onely by cladding the mourners their friendes and seruauntes in blacke vestures of shape dolefull and sad but also by wofull countenaunces and voyces and besides by Poeticall mournings in verse Such funerall songs were called Epicedia if they were song by many and Monodia if they were vttered by one alone and this was vsed at the enterment of Princes and others of great accompt and it was reckoned a great ciuilitie to vse such ceremonies as at this day is also in some countrey vsed In Rome they accustomed to make orations funerall and commendatorie of the dead parties in the publique place called Procostris and our Theologians in stead thereof vse to make sermons both teaching the people some good learning and also saying well of the departed Those songs of the dolorous discomfits in battaile and other desolations in warre or of townes saccaged and subuerted were song by the remnant of the army ouerthrowen with great skrikings and outcries holding the wrong end of their weapon vpwards in signe of sorrow and dispaire The cities also made generall mournings offred sacrifices with Poeticall songs to appease the wrath of the martiall gods goddesses The third sorrowing was of loues by long lamentation in Elegie so was their song called and it was in a pitious maner of meetre placing a limping Pentameter after a lusty Exameter which made it go dolourously more then any other meeter CHAP. XXV Of the solemne reioysings at the natiuitie of Princes children TO returne

dart her prickles from her and if they come neare her with the same as they sticke fast to wound them that hurt her But of late yeares in the ransacke of the Cities of Cartagena and S. Dominico in the West Indias manfully put in execution by the prowesse of her Maiesties men there was found a deuice made peraduenture without King Philips knowledge wrought al in massiue copper a king sitting on horsebacke vpon a monde or world the horse prauncing forward with his forelegges as if he would leape of with this inscription Non sufficit orbis meaning as it is to be cōceaued that one whole world could not content him This immeasurable ambition of the Spaniards if her Maiestie by Gods prouidence had not with her forces prouidently stayed and retranched no man knoweth what inconuenience might in time haue insued to all the Princes and common wealthes in Christendome who haue founde them selues long annoyed with his excessiue greatnesse Atila king of the Huns inuading Frāce with an army of 300000. fighting men as it is reported thinking vtterly to abbase the glory of the Romane Empire gaue for his deuice of armes a sword with a firie point and these words Ferro flamma with sword and fire This very deuice being as ye see onely accommodate to a king or conquerour and not a coillen or any meane souldier a certaine base man of England being knowen euen at that time a bricklayer or mason by his science gaue for his crest whom it had better become to beare a truell full of morter then a sword and fire which is onely the reuenge of a Prince and lieth not in any other mans abilitie to performe vnlesse ye will allow it to euery poore knaue that is able to set fire on a thacht house The heraldes ought to vse great discretion in such matters for neither any rule of their arte doth warrant such absurdities nor though such a coat or crest were gained by a prisoner taken in the field or by a flag found in some ditch neuer fought for as many times happens yet is it no more allowable then it were to beare the deuice of Tamerlan an Emperour in Tartary who gaue the lightning of heauen with a posie in that language purporting these words Ira Dei which also appeared well to answer his fortune For from a sturdie shepeheard he became a most mighty Emperour and with his innumerable great armies desolated so many countreyes and people as he might iustly be called the vvrath of God It appeared also by his strange ende for in the midst of his greatnesse and prosperitie he died sodainly left no child or kinred for a successour to so large an Empire nor any memory after him more then of his great puissance and crueltie But that of the king of China in the fardest part of the Orient though it be not so terrible is no lesse admirable of much sharpnesse and good implication worthy for the greatest king and conquerour and it is two strange serpents entertangled in their amorous congresse the lesser creeping with his head into the greaters mouth with words purporting ama time loue feare Which posie with maruellous much reason and subtillity implieth the dutie of euery subiect to his Prince and of euery Prince to his subiect and that without either of them both no subiect could be sayd entirely to performe his liegeance nor the Prince his part of lawfull gouernement For without feare and loue the soueraigne authority could not be vpholden nor without iustice and mercy the Prince be renowmed and honored of his subiect All which parts are discouered in this figure loue by the serpents amorous entertangling obedience and feare by putting the inferiours head into the others mouth hauing puissance to destroy On th' other side iustice in the greater to prepare and manace death and destruction to offenders And if he spare it then betokeneth it mercie and a grateful recompence of the loue and obedience which the soueraigne receaueth It is also worth the telling how the king vseth the same in pollicie he giueth it in his ordinarie liueries to be worne in euery vpper garment of all his noblest men and greatest Magistrats the rest of his officers and seruants which are either embrodered vpon the breast and the back with siluer or gold or pearle or stone more or lesse richly according to euery mans dignitie and calling and they may not presume to be seene in publick without them nor also in any place where by the kings commission they vse to sit in iustice or any other publike affaire wherby the king is highly both honored and serued the common people retained in dutie and admiration of his greatnesse the noblemen magistrats and officers euery one in his degree so much esteemed reuerenced as in their good and loyall seruice they want vnto their persons litle lesse honour for the kings sake then can be almost due or exhibited to the king him selfe I could not forbeare to adde this forraine example to accōplish our discourse touching deuices For the beauty and gallantnesse of it besides the subtillitie of the conceit and princely pollicy in the vse more exact then can be remēbred in any other of any European Prince whose deuises I will not say but many of them be loftie and ingenious many of them louely and beautifull many other ambitious and arrogant and the chiefest of them terrible and ful of horror to the nature of man but that any of them be comparable with it for wit vertue grauitie and if ye list brauerie honour and magnificence not vsurping vpon the peculiars of the gods In my conceipt there is none to be found This may suffice for deuices a terme which includes in his generality all those other viz. liueries cognizāces emblemes enseigns and impreses For though the termes be diuers the vse and intent is but one whether they rest in colour or figure or both or in word or in muet shew and that is to insinuat some secret wittie morall and braue purpose presented to the beholder either to recreate his eye or please his phantasie or examine his iudgement or occupie his braine or to manage his will either by hope or by dread euery of which respectes be of no litle moment to the interest and ornament of the ciuill life and therefore giue them no litle commendation Then hauing produced so many worthy and wise founders of these deuices and so many puissant patrons and protectours of them I feare no reproch in this discourse which otherwise the venimous appetite of enuie by detraction or scorne would peraduenture not sticke to offer me Of the Anagrame or posie transposed ONe other pretie conceit we will impart vnto you and then trouble you with no more and is also borrowed primitiuely of the Poet or courtly maker we may terme him the posie transposed or in one word a transpose a thing if it be done for pastime and

sillable but be in effect egall in time and tune as is also the Spondeus And because they be not written with any hard or harsh consonants I do allow them both for short sillables or to be vsed for common according as their situation and place with other words shall be and as I haue named to you but onely foure words for an example so may ye find out by diligent obseruation foure hundred if ye will But of all your words bissillables the most part naturally do make the foot Iambus many the Trocheus fewer the Spondeus fewest of all the Pirrichius because in him the sharpe accent if ye follow the rules of your accent as we haue presupposed doth make a litle oddes and ye shall find verses made all of monosillables and do very well but lightly they be Iambickes bycause for the more part the accent falles sharpe vpon euery second word rather then contrariwise as this of Sir Thomas Wiats I fīnde nŏ peāce ănd yēt mĭe wārre ĭs dōne I feare and hope and burne and freese like I se And some verses where the sharpe accent falles vpon the first and third and so make the verse wholly Trochaicke as thus Worke not no nor wish thy friend or foes harme Try but trust not all that speake thee so faire And some verses made of monosillables and bissillables enterlaced as this of th'Earles When raging loue with extreme paine And this A fairer beast of fresher hue beheld I neuer none And some verses made all of bissillables and others all of trissillables and others of polisillables egally increasing and of diuers quantities and sundry situations as in this of our owne made to daunt the insolence of a beautifull woman Brittle beauty blossome daily fading Morne noone and eue in age and eke in eld Dangerous disdainefull pleasantly perswading Easie to gripe but combrous to weld For slender bottome hard and heauy lading Gay for a while but little while durable Suspicious incertaine irreuocable O since thou art by triall not to trust Wisedome it is and it is also iust To sound the stemme before the tree be feld That is since death vvill driue vs all to dust To leaue thy loue ere that vve be compeld In which ye haue your first verse all of bissillables and of the foot trocheus The second all of monosillables and all of the foote Iambus the third all of trissillables and all of the foote dactilus your fourth of one bissillable and two monosillables interlarded the fift of one monosillable and two bissillables enterlaced and the rest of other sortes and scituations some by degrees encreasing some diminishing which example I haue set downe to let you perceiue what pleasant numerosity in the measure and disposition of your words in a meetre may be contriued by curious wits these with other like were the obseruations of the Greeke and Latine versifiers CHAP. XIIII Of your feet of three times and first of the Dactil YOur feete of three times by prescription of the Latine Grammariens are of eight sundry proportions for some notable difference appearing in euery sillable of three falling in a word of that size but because aboue the antepenultima there was amōg the Latines none accent audible in any long word therfore to deuise any foote of lōger measure then of three times was to them but superfluous because all aboue the number of three are but compounded of their inferiours Omitting therefore to speake of these larger feete we say that of all your feete of three times the Dactill is most vsuall and fit for our vulgar meeter most agreeable to the eare specially if ye ouerlade not your verse with too many of them but here and there enterlace a Iambus or some other foote of two times to giue him grauitie and stay as in this quadrein Trimeter or of three measures Rendĕr ăgaīne mĭe lībĕrtĭe ănd sēt yoŭr cāptĭue frēe Glōrĭoŭs īs thĕ vīctŏrĭe Cōnquĕrŏurs ūse wĭth lēnĭtĭe Where ye see euery verse is all of a measure and yet vnegall in number of sillables for the second verse is but of sixe sillables where the rest are of eight But the reason is for that in three of the same verses are two Dactils a peece which abridge two sillables in euery verse and so maketh the longest euen with the shortest Ye may note besides by the first verse how much better some bissillable becommeth to peece out an other longer foote then another word doth for in place of render if ye had sayd restore it had marred the Dactil and of necessitie driuen him out at length to be a verse Iambie of foure feet because render is naturally a Trocheus makes the first two times of a dactil Restore is naturally a Iābus in this place could not possibly haue made a pleasant dactil Now againe if ye will say to me that these two words libertie and conquerours be not precise Dactils by the Latine rule So much will I confesse to but since they go currant inough vpon the tongue and be so vsually pronounced they may passe wel inough for Dactils in our vulgar meeters that is inough for me seeking but to fashion an art not to finish it which time only custom haue authoritie to do specially in all cases of language as the Poet hath wittily remembred in this verse si volet vsus Quem penes arbitrium est vis norma loquendi The Earle of Surrey vpon the death of Sir Thomas Wiat made among other this verse Pentameter and of ten sillables What holy graue alas vvhat sepulcher But if I had had the making of him he should haue bene of eleuen sillables and kept his measure of fiue still and would so haue runne more pleasantly a great deale for as he is now though he be euen he seemes odde and defectiue for not well obseruing the natural accent of euery word and this would haue bene soone holpen by inserting one monosillable in the middle of the verse and drawing another sillable in the beginning into a Dactil this word holy being a good Pirrichius very well seruing the turne thus Whāt hŏlĭe grāue ă lās whăt fīt sĕpūlchĕr Which verse if ye peruse throughout ye shall finde him after the first dactil all Trochaick not Iambic nor of any other foot of two times But perchance if ye would seeme yet more curious in place of these foure Trocheus ye might induce other feete of three times as to make the three sillables next following the dactil the foote amphimacer the last word Sepulcher the foote amphibracus leauing the other midle word for a Iambus thus Whāt hŏlĭe grāue ă lās whăt fīt sĕpūlchĕr If ye aske me further why I make vvhat first long after short in one verse to that I satisfied you before that it is by reason of his accent sharpe in one place and flat in another being a commō monosillable that is apt to receiue either accent

with his mistresse Were it for grace or els in hope of gaine To say of my deserts it is but vaine For vvell in minde in case ye do them beare To tell them oft it should but irke your eare Be they forgot as likely should I faile To vvinne vvith vvordes vvhere deedes can not preuaile Then haue ye a figure very meete for Orators or eloquent perswaders such as our maker or Poet must in some cases shew him selfe to be Merismus or the Distributer and is when we may conueniently vtter a matter in one entier speach or proposition and will rather do it peecemeale and by distributiō of euery part for amplification sake as for exāple he that might say a house was outragiously plucked downe will not be satisfied so to say but rather will speake it in this sort they first vndermined the groundsills they beate downe the walles they vnfloored the loftes they vntiled it and pulled downe the roofe For so in deede is a house pulled downe by circūstances which this figure of distribution doth set forth euery one apart and therefore I name him the distributor according to his originall as wrate the Tuscane Poet in a Sonet which Sir Thomas Wyat translated with very good grace thus Set me vvhereas the sunne doth parch the greene Or vvhere his beames do not dissolue the yce In temperate heate vvhere he is felt and seene In presence prest of people mad or vvise Set me in hye or yet in low degree In longest night or in the shortest day In clearest skie or where clouds thickest bee In lustie youth or when my heares are gray Set me in heauen in earth or els in hell In hill or dale or in the foming flood Thrall or at large aliue where so I dwell Sicke or in health in euill fame or good Hers will I be and onely with this thought Content my selfe although my chaunce be naught All which might haue bene said in these two verses Set me wheresoeuer ye vvill I am and vvilbe yours still The zealous Poet writing in prayse of the maiden Queene would not seeme to wrap vp all her most excellent parts in a few words them entierly comprehending but did it by a distributor or merismus in the negatiue for the better grace thus Not your bewtie most gracious soueraine Nor maidenly lookes mainteind vvith maiestie Your stately port vvhich doth not match but staine For your presence your pallace and your traine All Princes Courts mine eye could euer see Not your quicke vvits your sober gouernaunce Your cleare forsight your faithfull memorie So sweete features in so staid countenaunce Nor languages with plentuous vtterance So able to discourse and entertaine Not noble race farre beyond Caesars raigne Runne in right line and bloud of nointed kings Not large empire armies treasurs domaine Lustie liueries of fortunes dearst darlings Not all the skilles fit for a Princely dame Your learned Muse vvith vse and studie brings Not true honour ne that immortall fame Of mayden raigne your only owne renowne And no Queenes els yet such as yeeldes your name Greater glory than doeth your treble crowne And then concludes thus Not any one of all these honord parts Your Princely happes and habites that do moue And as it were ensorcell all the hearts Of Christen kings to quarrell for your loue But to possesse at once and all the good Arte and engine and euery starre aboue Fortune or kinde could farce in flesh and bloud Was force inough to make so many striue For your person which in our world stoode By all consents the minionst mayde to wiue Where ye see that all the parts of her commendation which were partitularly remembred in twenty verses before are wrapt vp in the two verses of this last part videl Not any one of all your honord parts Those Princely haps and habites c. This figure serues for amplification and also for ornament and to enforce perswasion mightely Sir Geffrey Chaucer father of our English Poets hath these verses following in the distributor When faith failes in Priestes sawes And Lords hestes are holden for lawes And robberie is tane for purchase And lechery for solace Then shall the Realme of Albion Be brought to great confusion Where he might haue said as much in these words when vice abounds and vertue decayeth in Albion then c. And as another said When Prince for his people is wakefull and wise Peeres ayding with armes Counsellors with aduise Magistrate sincerely vsing his charge People prest to obey nor let to runne at large Prelate of holy life and with deuotion Preferring pietie before promotion Priest still preaching and praying for our heale Then blessed is the state of a common-weale All which might haue bene said in these few words when euery man in charge and authoritie doeth his duety executeth his function well then is the common-wealth happy The Greeke Poets who made musicall ditties to be song to the lute or harpe Epimone or the Loueburden did vse to linke their staues together with one verse running throughout the whole song by equall distance and was for the most part the first verse of the staffe which kept so good sence and conformitie with the whole as his often repetition did geue it greater grace They called such linking verse Epimone the Latines versus intercalaris and we may terme him the Loue-burden following the originall or if it please you the long repeate in one respect because that one verse alone beareth the whole burden of the song according to the originall in another respect for that it comes by large distances to be often repeated as in this ditty made by the noble knight Sir Philip Sidney My true loue hath my heart and I haue his By iust exchange one for another geuen I holde his deare and mine he cannot misse There neuer was a better bargaine driuen My true loue hath my heart and I haue his My heart in me keepes him and me in one My heart in him his thoughts and sences guides He loues my heart for once it was his owne I cherish his because in me it bides My true loue hath my heart and I haue his Many times our Poet is caried by some occasion to report of a thing that is maruelous Paradoxon or the Wondrer and then he will seeme not to speake it simply but with some signe of admiration as in our enterlude called the Woer I woonder much to see so many husbands thriue That haue but little wit before they come to wiue For one would easily weene who so hath little wit His wife to teach it him vvere a thing much vnfit Or as Cato the Romane Senatour said one day merily to his companion that walked with him pointing his finger to a yong vnthrift in the streete who lately before had sold his patrimonie of a goodly quātitie of salt marshes lying neere vnto Capua shore Now is it not a wonder to behold Yonder gallant skarce