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The Complete Poems of Sir Philip Sidney (Library of English Renaissance literature)
The Complete Poems of Sir Philip Sidney - Library of English Renaissance literature Author:Philip, Sir Sidney Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: NOTE. I give the heading of 'Pansies from Penshurst and Wilton' ('pansies for thoughts' : Hamlet, iv. 5) to such of the Verse of Sidney as has not been hither... more »to brought together, and which does not find a fitting place under the other divisions. The first, 'Two Pastoralls,' and the second, ' Disprayse of a Courtly life,' are from Davison's Poetical Rhapsody (1602); the third is from Dr. Bliss's Bibliographical Miscellanies (Oxford, 1813, 4', p. 63), taken from Bodleian Rawlinson MS., Poet 85; the fourth from England's Helicon ; the fifth from Dr. Bliss's edition of Wood's Athense (vol. i. p. 525); the sixth from Cottoni Posthuma, p. 327 ; seventh to twenty-two are from 'Certaine Sonetts,' as before—being the remainder of those not given in our preceding division; twenty-three to twenty-fifth are from 'The Lady of May—a Masque'; twenty-sixth from the autograph at Wilton ; and twenty- seventh, translations, are from Mornay's Trewnesse of the Christian Religion, 1592. G. chapter{Section 4PANSIES FROM PENSHURST AND WILTON. 1. T-wo Pastoralls.1 Made by Sir Philip Sidney, vpon his meeting with his two worthy Friends and fellow-Poets, Sir Edward Dyer and Maister Fulke Greuill.2 T OYNE, mates, in mirth to me, Graunt pleasure to our meeting; Let Pan, our good God, see How gratefull is our greeting. Ioyne hearts and hands, so let it be; Make but one minde in bodies three. 1 From Davison's Poetical Rhapsody, 1602 (Collier's reprint, pp. 7-9). 2 On the Two Pastorals, and the Friendship celebrated, see our editions of Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke and of Sir Edward Dyer. ' one minde in bodies three.' So Priamond, Diamond, Triamond: ' These three did love each other dearly well, And with so firm affection were allied, As if tut one soul in them all did dwell.' ...« less