virtuous Edton {1} and I    t togeto learn horsemanship of Gio.

        Pietro Pugliano; o,    endation, able; and o tileness of talian , did not only afford us tration of ice, but sougo enricemplation t most precious.    But    any time more laden, t, or moved ion) y.

        estate of mankind, and    of soldiers.    ers of s of peace, speedy goers, and strong abiders, triumps; nay, to so unbelieved a point    o a prince, as to be a good     a "pedanteria" in parison.    tain praises by telling    tier,    flattery, t of most beauty, fait if I    been a piece of a logi before I came to o    t least, o me, t self love is better to make t seem geous wies.

        rong affe and s    satisfy you, I    times, o title of a poet, am provoked to say someto you in t my ued vocation;    folloeps of er.

        A I must say, t as I    cause to make a pitiful defence of poor poetry,    estimation of learning, is fallen to be tock of c some more available proofs, si, ,    danger of civil he Muses. {2}

        At first, truly, to all t, professing learning, inveig poetry, may justly be objected, t to ungratefulo seek to deface t ions and languages t are kno le eo feed afteroug being received into t ? {3} or rat s? {4}

        Let learned Greece, in any of o s poets.    Nay, let any ory    t    say any ers    men of t of t try t made pens deliverers of to posterity, may justly co be called t only in time ty (altself antiquity be venerable) but    before to draamed s to an admiration of knoones ry to build to be listeo by beasts, indeed, stony aly people, so among talian language, t t made it to aspire to be a treasure-s Dante, Boccace, ararcer    foing, oto beautify our motongue, as s.

        tably sself t t not a long time appear to t us; so tural pyrtaeus in ters; and Solon in matters of policy; or rats, did exercise tful vein in ts of    kno ly a poet it is ma, ten in verse table fable of tlantic Island, o. {6}    And, truly, even Platt y depended most of poetry.    For all stands upon dialogues; ters t if t on tical describing tances of tings, as t, terlag mere tiles, as Gygess Ring, {7} and ot to be flory, did never o Apollos garden.

        And {8} even rapy be ten in to borro of ts; so us entitled tory by t t follory, te describing of passions, ticularities of battles ions, put in t kings and captains, ain they never pronounced.

        So t, truly, rap t, ered into tes of popular judgments, if t taken a great disport of poetry;    t, is plain to be seen; in all urkey, besides ters but poets.    In our neigry Ireland,    are ts    reverence.    Even among t barbarous and simple Indians,    s os," botors deeds and praises of t probability, t if ever learning es among t must be by s softened and s deligry; for until t promises of muctle persuade t kno ts of knorue remnant of t Britons, as ties to sime ts,    do ts, even to t; so as it is not more notable in tinuing.

        But si of our sces    us, a little, stand upon ties; but even so far, as to see o t ;vates," iium," and "vatiari," is ma; so itle did t excellent people besto- raviso tion t t in tting upon any suc foretokens of tunes    is reported by many,     rationis in armis and in .    Alt ition; as also it o ts ; et servet to s reveres     ground, si same exquisite    of number and measure in t y of ceit proper to t, did seem to .

        And {10} may not I presume a little farto s;vates," and say, t t do it    testimony of great learned men, bot and modern.    But even terpreted, is not Songs; t is fully ten ire, as all learned    yet fully found. Lastly, and principally, ical.    For ruments; ten and free cable prosopopoeias, s joyfulness, and    a , e lover of t unspeakable and everlastiy, to be seen by t truly, no    to poetry, imation.    But t,    judgments, tle deeper into it, s sucly applied, deservet to be sced out of the church of God.

        But {11} no us see , and .    text], , go etext], ;a maker," le it is, I ial allegation.    t delivered unto mankind t    ture for ,    , and on    ure ronomer look upon tars, and by t    doure aken tri and ariti, in ts of quantities.    So dotimes, tell you ural paural virtues, vices, or passions of man; and folloure, sait not err.    t men ermined.    torian, ure    prove and persuade, tificial rules, ion, acc to tter. ture of mans body, and ture of tful unto it.    And tap be in traotions, and ted supernatural, yet doture. Only t, disdaining to be tied to any su, lifted up ion, dot, into anoture; in making tter ture brie aneure, not enclosed    of s, but freely ranging . {13}     Nature never set fortapestry as divers poets    rivers, fruitful trees, s-smelling flooo- muly deliver a golden.

        But let to man; {14} for termost ing is employed; and knorue a lover as tant a friend as Pylades; so valiant a man as Orlando; s a man every    tingly ceived, because tial, tation or fi; for every uanding knoificer sta idea, or fore-ceit of t in tself.    And t t    idea is ma by delivering t    to say by t build castles in t so far substantially it    only to make a Cyrus, icular excellency, as nature mig to bestoo make many Cyruses; if t,    be deemed too saucy a parison to bala point of mans    ure; but rat o t maker, ure; o t first accursed fall of Adam; since our erected    maket perfe is, a our ied o it.

        But ts ood, and by feed; t ty of reason, gave he name above all names of learning.

        No us go to a more ordinary opening of    trut not so unmatcymology of , yet ion, ly be barred from a principal endation.

        Poesy, {16} t of imitation; for so Aristotle termet i]; t is to say, a representing, terfeiting, uring forto speak metapure, o teac.

        Of {17} tiquity and excellency, ate tes, and Proverbs; Moses and Deboraer of Job; itle tical part of ture; against t    in due y, were Orp be used by w.

        Pauls sel, in singing psalms    by some, he never-leaving goodness.

        t deal ter pyrtaeus, Po, or, natural, as Lucretius, Virgils Geics; or astronomical, as Manilius {19} and Pontanus; or orical, as Lu; , quite out of taste, and not in t food of sly uttered knowledge.

        But because t is , and takes not tion;    grammarians dispute, and go to t poets, of     t of painters,    only suc before t, , besto in colours upon you    for to see; as tant, ting look of Lucretia,    Lucretia, ety of sucue.    For t properly do imitate to tead to imitate, borro is,    range only, reined ion, into tion of w may be, and should be.

        t, as t and most noble sort, may justly be termed "vates;" so ted on i languages a uandings, s.    For to imitate, and imitate boto deligeaove men to take t goodness in    deligranger; and teaake t goodness    scope to     t idle too bark at them.

        to sundry more special denominations; t notable be tragiic, satyric, iambic, elegiac, pastoral, aain otermed acc to tter t of verse t to e in; for, iest part of poets ical iions in t numerous kind of ing    an or, and no cause to poetry, si excellent poets t never versified, and no need never anso ts. {22}

        For Xenopate so excellently as to give us effigiem justi imperii, traiture of a just of Cyrus, as Cicero saite ion of t bote in prose;    is not r maket (no more te,    it is t feigning notable images of virtues, vices, or    deligeac be t describing o kno by.    Alte of poets test raiment; meaning, as in matter to go beyond t speaking table-talk fas pieg eac proportion, acc to ty of t.

        No s be amiss, first, to er sort of poetry by S; and if iomies e, t, and enlarging of ceit,    e forto e end soever it be directed; to lead and drao as ion as ee souls, made o tion of man, bred many formed impressions; for some t t ty principally to be gotten by knoo be so o be acquainted ars, gave to astronomy; oto be demi-gods, if tural and supernatural p dreo musid some tainty of demonstrations to tics; but all, one and oto knoo lift up to t    tronomer, looking to tars, migc t be blind in i migraig; t t all t serving sces,    are ted to t end of tress k], isideration,    of    end is to make a good saddle, but o serve a nobler faculty,    only to    to perform tice of a soldier. So t tuous a, t most serve t fort    just title to be princes over all t; o    before any otitors. {26}

        Among {27} ep fortoy (as t abide vice by dayligo ness outempt of out glory,    tically speaking against subtlety, and angry    of anger.    ting largesses as tions, divisions, and distins, errogative do soberly ask:     be possible to find any pato lead a man to virtue, as t ue is; and teaot only by delivering forts; but also by making knoroyed; and , passion, ered, by sies t tain it, and ties t are derived from it; lastly, by plaiing doends itself out of ts of a mans otle o t of families, and maintaining of public societies? torian {28} scarcely gives leisure to t to say so muc t en records, authorizing {29}

        part, upon otories,    auties are built upon table foundation of o accord differing ers, and to pick trut of partiality; better acquainted    age, a better knoiquities, and inquisitive of ies, a o young folks, and a tyrant in table-talk) de y man for teacue and virtuous as, is parable to ;testis temporum, lux veritatis, vita memoriae, magistra vitae, nuncia vetustatis." {30}    teacative virtue, but I do an active; ue is excellent in to, but miles of Maratiers, and Agincourt:    eacue by certain abstract siderations; but I only bid you folloing of t ted p I give tly, if    to te; and if .    tory by stories,    senators and princes ed by t of ory, as Brutus, Alp? if need be).    At lengtation makes a point in t t, and the example.

        Noa form in to be moderator?    truly, as me seemet; and if not a moderator, even t ougo carry title from ther serving sces.

        t orian, and co be excepted, not only for ernity exceedet, but even for passing eac;Jus" be ter of Justice, tues, yet because o make men good rat;formidine poenae" t;virtutis amore," or, to say rig endeavour to make men good, but t t not otizen, y maket in t truto stand in rank o take naug goodness even i et of our souls.    And t any ion of mens manners,    breed it deserve t endation.

        toria, t bot .    For tting dos tterance, and so misty to be ceived, t o    il    cause to be .    For arad general, t    man orian, ing t, is so tied, not to o o ticular trut to t ful doe.

        No perform botsoever t picture of it, by some one by icular example.    A perfect picture, I say; for o t    a    of t oto a man t , or a rell    exquisitely all ticular marks? or of a geous palace, an arcect, , as it e, all    sisfy , o itself of a true living kno t see ts ed, or t raig need of any description, to a judicial pre, tions, be it of virtue or vices, matters of public policy or private gover, replenisanding, lie dark before tive and judging po illuminated ured forture of poesy.

        tully taketimes not    poetiake us knory    us but    of troys flames, or see Ulysses, in ts, be but Sopage, killing or ell me, if you    a more familiar insigo aemperan Ulysses and Diomedes, valour in A ignorant man, carry not an apparent srarily, ting pride in Agamemnon; ty in reus; tion in tness of revenge in Medea; and, to fall loerentian Gnat o signify trades; and finally, all virtues, vices, and passions so in tural states laid to t    to    clearly to see t even in t excelleermination of goodness, uous man in all fortunes, as AEneas in Virgil?    Or a     of t of t; for t terning a on absolute, t so absolutely performed it.    For tion is, ru of peacly ss taio top of trut;Mediocribus esse poetis Non Di, non ; {33})    it is, I say again, not t of t, but t by fe art    be aplisainly, even our Saviour C could as    c t ate of Dives burning in antly, as it .    truly, for myself (me seems), I see before mine eyes t cy turo envy a s orical acts, but instrug parables.

        For clusion, I say teac ead    is to say, eac are already taug t is te stomac is, i popular philosopher.

        ales give good proof; ealing uales of beasts, make many, more beastly ts, begin to ue from those dumb speakers.

        But no be alleged, t if tters be so fit for tion, t torian needs surpass, ters, suc sucastically or falsely may be suggested to ruly, Aristotle ermiion, saying, t poetry is [Greek text], t is to say, it is more pory. ext], t is to say, ion, and treek text], ticular.    "No; sait;t is fit to be said or doy; ; totle. {35}     full of reason.    For, indeed, if tioo icular act truly or falsely set do ers pleasure, not if tion be, for your oter to    set do s ainly, is more doable true Cyrus in Justin; {36} and t AEneas in Dares Po a lady t desired to faseo t grace, a painter s o portrait a most s face, ing idia upon it, to paint idia as s dantalus, Atreus, and suc is not to be so be folloo tell t be liberal,    ical, of a perfect pattern; but, as in Alexander, or Scipio o be liked, some to be misliked; and t to follo by your oion, w reading Q.

        Curtius? {38}    And ri prevailet t tory, in    a man more in t :    t if and upon t AS, as if    rained yesterday t so-day; t some advao a gross ceit.    But if ured likeli doto frame o t    in ic, or private matters;    o overrule t imes    tell events    be poetically.

        For, t a feigned example bato teacrue example (for as for to move, it is clear, siuo t key of passion), let us take one example    did cur.    us and Justin do botestify, t Zopyrus, King Dariuss fait, seeing er loed by treme disgrace of o be cut off, and so flying to ted, t o deliver to Darius. Mucters dotarquinius and ly feigned sucratagem, performed by Abradatus in Cyruss beed unto you to serve your prince by suc dissimulation,    of Xenopion as of ty? and, truly, so mucter, as you sus did not terfeit so far.    So, t of torians is subject to t; for, ion or fa, ratagem torian is bound to recite, t may t, if , ation, make ifying it boteag, as it please es o y of    poets    , say I, and say again, I speak of t, and not of tificer.

        Noo t ed to tory, in respect of table learning ue exalted, and vice punisruly, t endation is peculiar to poetry, and far off from ory; for, indeed, poetry ever sets virtue so out in    colours, making fortune ing    one must needs be enamoured of her.

        ell may you see Ulysses in a storm, and in ots; but t exercises of patiend magnanimity, to make ty.    And, on trary part, if evil men e to tage, t (as tragedy er anso o misliked ttle animate folks to follo ory being captive to trutimes a terror from    to unbridled    valiant Miltiades rot in ters? t Pes put to deatraitors? t Severus miserably murdered?    Sylla and Marius dying in t exile a    virtuous Cato driven to kill    , after sixtee    even Caesars o only did ly, to put doyranny), "literas nescivit:" as if    of learning caused o do    not by poetry, ent    in yrants:    nor yet by peac;octes esse:" but, no doubt, by skill in ory; for t, indeed,    afford you Cypselus, Periander, P    speed ion.

        I clude, t ory, not only in furnis iing it foro t ed good:    o tets as victorious; not only of torian, but over teac may be questionable. For suppose it be gra    t of eacly t, yet do I t no man is so mucext], as to pare t.    And t moving is of a eac may by t it is eacaug moved o be taug so muc teacill of moral doe) as t it moveto do t eacotle sait is not [Greek text] but [Greek text] {39}

        must be t:    a]    be,    being moved to practise, it is o sider.    ticularities, as ediousness of t lodging you surnings t may divert you from your    to no man, but to    eudious painfulness;    desire    for truly, learned men , t    to do    eacself is as good as a pure    is o do    in t    of natural ceit t; but to be moved to do t o kno;." Noill of o t), is our poet t only s givet a prospeto tiy man to enter into it; nay,    t give you a cluster of grapes, t full of t taste you may long to pass fart ions, erpretations, and load tfulness, but o you    in deligioing skill of musid ale, forsooto you ale end to virtue; even as ten brougo take most aste; ell ture of take t t t is in men (most of t till to ales of    needs    description of ice; o say, p out, t to sc imitation o nature of all ot, as Aristotle saittles, unnatural monsters, are made, iical imitation, delightful.

        truly, I    eve poesy, s moved to tesy, liberality, and especially ce.

        o perform so excellent an act?     turnus move (tale of turnus ed ion)    "--fugientem erra videbit? Usque adeone mori miserum est?" {42}

        o deligent little to move, saving us" be templative or tive life do excel; ius ress Pen borro of poesy. For even ted evil men, ;indulgere genio," and tere admonitions of t tand upo ent to be delig seems to promise; and so steal to see t but love, ere took a medie of cherries.

        Infinite {43} proofs e effects of tical iion migely divided te,    ster ruin, t time, an excellent orator, came not among trust, eitive spees, and muic, t ry before t, forsoot.    elletale, t time inous spiracy against t devoured ts of eac so unprofitable a spearve.    In to be s (for tale is notorious, and as notorious t it ale),    su t oion, for upon reasonable ditions a perfect recilement ensued.

        t, ery o do te office of a friend, in laying    by God to call again so c, ? but by telling of a man aken from ion most divirue, but tself feigned; al cause) as in a glass see    estifieth.

        By t may be ma t,    same , dotually t dot unfitly e as virtue is t excelleing-place for all o make ry, being t familiar to tead most prio move to, in t excellent    excellent workman.

        But I am tent not only to decipion and dispraise must ever y),but more narro (as in a man) togety ay percious {44} piece we may find blemish.

        No to term t is to be    some poesies ical and ical, ius; some ters oral; but t eto one in tion; for, if severed tion ot be ful.    tting some, and leaving some as needless to be remembered, it s be amiss, in a o cite to see s may be found in t use of them.

        Is it, toral poem    leap over. Is times, out of Melibaeuss moutityrus, o t lie lo from t sit ? Sometimes uy tales of ience; sometimes s tentions for trifles    get but a trifling victory;     ter-livers may say,    " victum frustra teempore nobis." {47}

        Or is it ting elegiac, {48} y t pus, tco be praised, eitely apanying just causes of lamentations, or fing out    tter, but    of villany,    against naugiric? ium ridenti tangit amico;" {50}

        il    folly, and, at lengto laug    avoid    avoiding t;circum praecordia ludit," giveto feel e life brio;    Ulubris, animus si nos non deficit aequus." {51}

        No, perc is ty play-makers and stage-keepers ly made odious.    to ts of abuse I er anso be said, t tation of tet ridiculous and sful sort t may be; so as it is impossible t a to be sucry, t be kno, and in aritic, tions of our life, et foil to perceive ty of virtue.    te and domestical matters, as, , , as it o be looked for, of a niggardly Demea, of a crafty Davus, of a flattering Gnat only to knos are to be expected, but to know whe edian.

        And little reason o say, t men learn t so set out; since, as I said before, t by truture, no sooner seets, but rinum;" {53} alts lie so be    o dan to yet noto see ions ptibly set fort t use of edy hink, by nobody be blamed.

        And muc tragedy, {54} t ope issue; t maketo be tyrants, and tyrants to mayrannical    irring ts of admiration and iseration, teaty of tions gilded roofs are builded; t maket;qui sceptrasaevos duro imperiit, timet timentes, metus in aut."    But     move, Plutarcable testimony of tyrant Alexander Pragedy, ed, dreears, y e numbers, and some of     aso make matters fedies, yet could not resist t violence of a tragedy.    And if it    e of o t    it is nedy t oo absurd to cast out so excellent a representation of    o be learned.

        Is it t most displeasetuned lyre ao virtuous acts? ural problems? o t of tal God?    Certainly, I must fess mine o my    moved more trumpet; {55} a is sung but by some blind croyle;    uncivil age,    rimmed in t t all feasts, and all otings, to ors valour,    kindlers of brave ce.    t only carry t kind of music ever o t even at ent to be singers of ty men o tell    t t Pindar many times praisetories of small moment, ratters of sport tue; as it may be ans    of t, and not of try, so, i ime and    of t toys at so    P Olympus among ties.    But as table Pindar often did, so is t kind most capable, and most fit, to as from to embrace erprises.

        ts t all backbiters.    For by     a tongue be directed to speak evil of t ydeus, Rinaldo? eaco trut teaco t    truty and justice sy fearfulness and foggy desires? ully be true, t tet to make o t    to disdain until tand.    But if any t poetry, all curreto taining t only a kind, but t and most aplisry.    For, as tion stirretructety image of suflameto be o be    AEneas be ablet of your memory, ry; in ts, to leave Dido, t only passionate kindness, but even tion of virtuous gratefulness, rangers, o allies, o enemies; o ly, ; and I t prejudiced ing ful.    Yea, as ;Melius C tore:" {57} but, truly, I imagi fallet - in fait tell o t s,    tains icularities desding from    o their carping dispraise.

        Siry is of all    a, and of most fatiquity, as from    is so universal t no learned nation dot, nor barbarous nation is    it; sio it, t i name of making is fit for    ain t, and receive, as it , t only, only briuff, and dot learn a ceit out of a matter, but maketter for a ceit; sineition nor end tai be evil; since s be so good as to teac t; siri only far pass torian, but, for instrug, is ure ( poetical, and t even our Saviour C vouco use t; since all    only in ted forms, but in tions fully endable; I tly, ted for triump captains, dots triumph.

        But {59} because    test reasons t may be, o    in terbalance, let us    objes be made against t, wher of yielding or answering.

        First, truly, I note, not only i], poet-ers, but in all t kind of people    many aunting at eacirring tay t.

        tions, as ty, but t an itgue may rub itself upon it), so deserve t, instead of laug t, to laug ter.    e kno    praise tion of an ass, tableness of being i, and ties of being sick of trary side, if urn Ovids verse,    "Ut lateat virtus proximitate mali."    "t good lies ; Agrippa y of Sce, as Erasmus ter escape some touc for Erasmus and Agrippa, tion t    fault-finders, a scoffing et of    title in true Englis s, is to be called good fools; for so ermed t ers.

        But t    scope to t is already said, and, as I truly said, it is not r maket    versing, and a versifier    poetry.    But yet, presuppose it    seemetruly, it ion; for if "oratio" o "ratio," speec to reasoest gift bestoality, t ot be praiseless    by    measured quantity; carrying even in t, per be in our time grown odious.

        But lay aside t praise it    speec diviriker of tedly true, t if reading be foolis remembering, memory being treasure of k for memory, are like ve for kno verse far exceedetting up of t:    t, y to memory, being so set as one ot be lost, but tself, calleto itself, and so most strongly firmet.    Besides, oing anot in ro tly, even t aug of memory,    for it as a certain room divided into many places,     perfectly, every ,    needs make t o all men?     t ever    carry aatorem fugito:    nam garrulus idem est. Dum sibi quisque placet credula turba sumus." {62}

        But tness it ably proved by all delivery of arts, , from grammar to logic, matics, p, to be borne a verse being in itself s and orderly, and bei for memory, t must be i any man    speak against it.

        Noo t important imputations laid to ts; f learn, these.

        First, t tful knoer spend ime in this.

        Sedly, t it is ther of lies.

        t it is ting us ilent desires, ness, drao ts tail of sinful fancies; and    field to ear, as s and ours, before poets did soften us, o martial exercises, ty, and not lulled asleep in ss pastimes.

        And lastly and c    Robin    Plato banis of h.

        truly trut.

        First, {64} to t, t a man migter spend ime, is a reason indeed; but it dot "petere principium." {65}    For if it be, as I affirm, t no learning is so good as t ue, and t none    boteauc, t ink and paper ot be to a more profitable purpose employed. Aainly, t t assumption, it s good is not good because better is better.    But I still and utterly deny t t of eartful knowledge.

        to {66} t t truly, I truly, t of all ers u is t liar; and t,    scarcely be a liar.    tronomer, ri,    ake upon to measure t of tars.

        en, terion before to    o affirm.    No, ake it, to lie is to affirm t to be true s, and especially torian, affirmet t, as I said before, never affirmet never maket your imagination, to jure you to believe for true et auties of otories, but even for ry callet Muses to inspire into ion; in trot lab to tell you , but    t true, yet because ellet for true ;     Nato David;    AEsop lied in tales of s; for e it for actually true, o s et eto a play, and seeing tten i letters upon an old door, dot it is to to kno ts persons and doings are but pictures ories    affirmatively, but allegorically and figuratively ten; and tory, looking for trut    for fi, tion but as an imaginative ground-plot of a profitable iion.

        But o is replied, t ts give o men te of, ual trut being true, provetile, and Jotet t is easily ans to make ture t to build any ory.    Painti leave men nameless;    play at c t    give o our c, metial crut itle of a bis o s men of tunes, aes should do.

        t abuset, training it to a on sinfulness and lustful love.    For, i is t only abuse I    eacs; te sos; t of ress; and t even to tiously climbed.    Alas! Love, I    as    offend ot attend, could eit t grant love of beauty to be a beastly fault, alt be very ,    gift to dis beauty; grant t lovely name of love to deserve all eful reproacers t a good deal of tting frant, I say, ed, t not only love, but lust, but vanity, but, if t, scurrility, possess many leaves of ts books; yet, ted, tence may,    t ; and not say t poetry abuset, but t mans    abusetry.    For I    deny but t mans    may make poesy, ], ext],    ts; as ter,    perspective, or some fine picture fit for building or fortification, or taining in it some notable example, as Abraing oers.

        But, ruly, t poesy may not only be abused, but t being abused, by t    do more    t s be so far from cluding, t to t, trari is a good reason, t    ly used (and upon t use eacitle) dot good.    Do    see skill of p rampire {68} to our often-assaulted bodies, being abused, teac violeroyer?    Dot knoo go in t) Gods    do mud as truly ( spoken) it ot do muc kill t defend try; so t, as in ts fat of abuse, tion.

        t before poets began to be in price, our nation    ts deligion, and not imagination; rato be ten, ting t to be done.     t before time ell; sinory is so a gives not to poetry.    Aain it is, t, in our plai    never ion    poetry.

        Marry, t, t be levelled against poetry, yet it is indeed a c against all learning or bookiserm it.

        Of su Got is ten, t y taken a fair library, oo execute ts of ts, .    "No," said anot;take    you do, for oys, ;    trine of ignorance, and many imes I    in it; but because t all learning as ry, or rat poetry; because it oe a digression to , or at least too superfluous, si is ma all gover of a is to be gotten by kno by gato    is of t opinion, "Jubeo stultum esse libenter--" {69} for as for poetry itself, it is t from tion, for poetry is take, Orlando Furioso, or    King Art ty of "ens" and "prima materia" urks and tartars are deligs.    o a sligure a jecture may be opposed, truly it may seem, t as by ook almost t ligive men receive t notions of ce.    Only Alexanders example may serve,    fortune     stool;    er, living Aristotle, be took dead h him.

        to deatinous, stubbornness; but to ern of A of fortitude. And, to misliked Fulvius for carrying Ennius o t may be ans if isliked it t, or else    do; for it    t Cato Utisis    rutter puniss, but else a man t o t against, all Greek learning, a, being fourscore years old, began to learn it, belike fearing t Pluto uood not Latin.    Io be carried to t    o misliked ered person,     t Roman) loved ues no less sur to be buried in ture. So, as Catos auty being but against    ay.

        But {70} no, t Platos name is laid upon me,     poetical; yet if ain out of    reason .

        First, truly, a man mig t Plato, being a pural enemy of poets.    For, indeed, after t of t mysteries of poetry t dising of true points of knoting it i of t eaess, beginning to spurn at teful apprentices,    tent to set up s sougo discredit ters; ed ties strove    members to live among tiain of Euripides verses many At many of to live.    Certais, as Simonides and Pindar, , t of a tyrant t king; tle     ions raised against poets ions against p so, or tarc do authey do.

        Again, a man mig of o doty of women.

        So, as belike t gre for effeminate onness, sitle sical sos be ful,    I rus, and bless ts co poetry.    Saint Paul s a co upon t upory.    Plato found fault t ts of ime filled t tales of t unspotted essence, and t    ts did not induce suc did imitate those opinions already induced.

        For all tories    estify t t time stood upon many and many-fas taugs, but folloo ture of imitation.     may read in Plutaration stood not upon sudeed superstitiously observed; and truly, si of C, did mucter in it tition, brougheism.

        Plato, ty I ly strue tly resist, meant not in general of poets, in t;qua autate, barbari quidam atque insipidi, abuti velint ad poetas e republica exigendos {71}:" but only meant to drive out ty, ianity aken aful belief, perouriseemed poets.    And a man need go no farto Plato o kno; {72}

        givetly, divine endation unto poetry.    So as Plato, banis t banis, but giving due o it, sron, and not our adversary.    For, indeed, I ruly I may do it, saking of Plato, uo overty; ributeto poesy more to be a very inspiring of a divine force, far above mans , as in t.

        Of t sort of judgments gra ts; Laelius, called tes, ; so as part of ontimeroumenos, in terence, o be made by him.

        And even tes, o    part of ime in putting AEsops Fables into verse; and, t bee o to put sucers mout poets. But otle es t;Art of Poesy;" and ten? Plutarceaco be gat be read? And s h guards {73} of poesy.

        But I list not to defend poesy rap it suffice to    is a fit soil for praise to d upon it is eitransformed into just endation.    So t si may be so easily and so justly firmed, and tions so soon trodden do not being an art of lies, but of true doe; not of effeminateness, but of notable stirring of ce; not of abusing mans , but of strengt; not banis o; let us rat more laurels for to ingarland ts e, as besides triump captains    auty to s to be o blohe clear springs of poesy.

        But {75} sier, metop, it s a little more lost time to inquire, o poets,    ougo pass all ot, being, indeed, makers of t takers of ot exclaim, "Musa, mi; {76}

        S poesy! t ly reat captains, suly to favour poets, but to be poets; and of our imes    present for rons, a Robert, King of Sicily; t King Francis of France; King James of Scotland; suceacorius and Scaliger; so great orators as Pontanus and Muretus; so pierg s as Gee Buc before all, t al {77} of Fra realm never broug more firmly builded upon virtue; I say t only to read ot to poetise for ot poesy, time a s it, and t omed.    For ofore poets o be noted, even in times    of Mars did sound loudest.    And no an over-faint quietness so stres, t in as good reputation as tebanks at Veruly, even t, as of t givet praise to poesy, o better purpose), roubled in t    of Vul; so servet for a piece of a reason o idle England, s uake it, ue, to , ible, to bee ed; so t setting to it, by t graceful poesy.    For no    fortard poets,    any ission, t over til t-ime, t;Queis meliore luto finxit praecordia titan," {78} are better tent to suppress tflo, to be ated knighe same order.

        But I t, before ever I durst aspire unto ty, am admitted into true cause of    estimation is    of desert, taking upon us to be poets ie of Pallas.    No, o express.    But if I kle so ed to e by it; only, overmastered by some ts, I yielded an inky tribute unto them.

        Marry, t deligself, so kn glass of reason, if to it.

        For poesy must not be dra must be gently led, or rat must lead;    made t learned affirm it ; a poet no industry    make, if    carried into it. And t;Orator fit, poeta nascitur." {79} Yet fess I al as tilest ground must be manured, so must t flying    o guide    Daedalus, to bear itself up into tion; t is art, imitation, and exercise.    But tificial rules, nor imitative patterns,    very forebacker s, matter to be expressed by o express tter, i or imitatiter is "quodlibet," {80} indeed, alt;Quicquid abor dicere, versus erit;" {81} never mars into any assured rank, t almost t tell hemselves.

        Cedly, did excellently in roilus and Cressida; of        misty time could see so clearly, or t umblingly after     s, fit to be fiven in so reverend antiquity.    I at trates meetly furnisiful parts.    And in tasting of a noble birt;S;    deceived.    t same framing of yle to an old rustiguage, I dare not allous in Greek, Virgil in Latin, nor Sannazaro in Italian, did affect it.    Besides t remember to    feo speak boldly) pri ical si most of t in prose, and t    one verse did but beget anot    at t ; winkling sound of rh reason.

        Our {83} tragedies and edies, not    cause, are cried out against,    rules    civility nor skilful poetry.

        Excepting Gorboduc (again I say of t I anding, as it is full of stately speeco t of Seneca yle, and as full of notable morality,    deligea t, in trut is very defectuous in tances,    model of all tragedies.

        For it is faulty botime, tions.    For    one place; and ttermost time presupposed in it sotles precept, and on reason, but one day; tificially imagined.

        But if it be so in Gorboduc, ?    ever begin elling    be ceived.    No believe tage to be a garden.    By and by,    it not for a rock.

        Upon t es out a er o take it for a cave; ed        receive it for a pitcime t is, t ter many traverses s , groo get anot aug examples justified, and at taly    err in.    Yet ere taier of t far s of ty years.    true it is, and so    to be played io time it set fortus    us    it    miss    t fortory imes?    And do t kno a tragedy is tied to t of ory; not bound to folloory, but y eito feign a quite er, or to frame tory to t tragical venience? Again, many told,    rep and representing.    As for example, I may speak, t to tion of Calicut; but in a I ot represent it    Pacolets s took by some "Nuntius," {85}

        to ret time, or other place.

        Lastly, if t an ory, t not, as ;ab ovo," {86} but t e to t of t oion    expressed; I ory of young Polydorus, delivered, for safetys sake,    rior, King of trojan ime.    er some years, o make treasure aken up;    to be revenged most cruelly of tyrant.    ragedy-ers begin, but o t ravel numbers of places.    But o be told by t of Polydorus.    to be enlarged; t    may ceive it.

        But, besides ties,    tragedies n because tter so carriet, but t in to play a part in majestical matters, ion; so as ion and iseration, nor t sportfulness, is by tragi-edy obtained.    I kno t is a ted ime, not represented in one moment: and I kni- edies as Plautus rio.    But, if    tily, match horn-pipes and funerals.

        So fallet out, t    edy in t ical part of our tragedy, y, une ears; or some extreme sis to lift up a loud laugract of a edy s; as tragedy sill maintained in a ion.

        But our edians t    lauger may e , yet et not of delig ser; but oget rariety.    For delig in t o ourselves, or to ture.    Laug ever et disproportioo ourselves and nature: delig eit or present; laugig.    For example:    o see a fair    are far from being moved to laug deformed creatures,    delig in good c misc to ry, at    imes laugo find a matter quite mistaken, and go do t of tily sorroer.    Yet deny I not, but t togeture    out, y mad antics    beard and furious tenance, in a tire, spinning at Omp, it breeds bot and lauging of se a poirreter.

        But I speak to t all t be not upon sucters as stir laug mix    t deligeac fault, even in t point of laugotle, is, t tir laugo be pitied t is it to make folks gape at a c tality, to jest at strangers, because t Englis do    is certain,    "Nil    infelix pauperatas durius in se, Quam qnod ridiculos, ." {88}

        But ratier, and a less tening ter; a ransformed traveller:    tage names, ful laugeaess:    as in tragedies of Bucly bring fortion.

        But I    too many ter; I do it, because, as ts of poesy, so is tifully abused; y to be called iion.

        Ots of poetry, almost,    t lyrical kind of songs and sos, e and publi singing tal beauty, tal goodness of t God, e, and s to ceive; of     never matter; of o not we should ever have new budding occasions.

        But, truly, many of sugs as e uible love, if I ress,    ings, and so caugain s oold me, "t nort and by sout; because o ;energia" (as t), of ter.    But let t, t     use of terial point of poesy.

        Noside of it, ) di, it is even    ron eloquence, apparelled, or ratesan-like painted affectation.

        Oime y seem monsters, but most seem strao any plisime ter, as if to folloionary: anotime remely er-starved.

        But I    o versifiers, and    as large possession among prose printers:    and, ied, among some preachers.

        truly, I could    I migo    imitators of tully a o be imitated, did not so mutive translation, as it    sugar and spice upon every dis is served at table:    like t tent to    t and natural place of t t jeo be fine.

        tully,    Catiline, as it    of eloquence, ofteion, as "vivit et vincit, imo ium venit, imo ium venit," &c. {93}    Indeed, inflamed     of    artificially wurally.

        And imes to a familiar epistle, oo muco be choleric.

        ore of "similiter ces" doty of t, I    invoke Demosto tell, ruly, ter, t oo muclety ed a soper, ain an opinion of a seeming fineness, but persuade few, wheir fineness.

        Noudes iain printed discourses, I ts, all stories of beasts, foitudes to    upon any of our ceits,    to tude not being to prove anyto a trary disputer, but only to explain to a    is a most tedious prattling, rato t inf t, already eitisfied, or by similitudes not to be satisfied.

        For my part, I do not doubt,    forefatestifietended not to kno, t to set by it, because     of popular ears,    step to persuasion ( doubt, I say, but t to o ed by to speak curiously truly.    Undoubtedly (at least to my opinion undoubtedly) I iers a more sound style t t tier follo est to nature, t not) doto art, t by art:    o s, and not    (as in ture, and indeed abuset.

        But o be pounded {94} for straying from poetry to oratory:    but boty in tions, t I tanding:    o take upoo teacs    only finding myself sick among t, to allos of tion gro part of ers; t, aoo t use botter and manner:     occasion, being, indeed, capable of any excellent exerg of it. {95}    I kno is a mingled language: aaking t of bot etruly, it    praise, t it s not grammar; frammar it mig needs it not; being so easy in itself, and so void of tenses;    a man s to sco learn ongue.    But for ttering sly and properly t of t    equally ongue in ticularly ions of togetin;    beauties    be in a language.

        Nos, t, t marked tity of eaco t framed , t sta like sounding of t,    more fit for musie    quantity; and more fit lively to express divers passions, by ty sound of tter, likeriketain music to t dot, t obtainess, and ing iy.

        truly t for bots; for, for t, talian is so full of vo it must ever be cumbered cs, t t yield t sliding fit for a verse.    t one     in t syllable, saving tepenultima; and little more, iles. t to none of ts.

        Noity,    very precisely,    do so absolutely.    t "caesura," or breat of talian nor Spanis fail of.    Lastly, evealian ot put in t syllable, by t still in t to t, , ;sdrucciola:" t;buono," "suono;" of t;femina," "semina."    t;bon," "son," and t;plaise," "taise;" but t;sdrucciola" ; ; "true," "fat; "rat; "motion," "potion;"    be said, but t already I find trifling of too mularged.

        So {97} t siue, breeding delig t ougo be in t it are eit is eemed in England is t of poet-apes, not poets; since, lastly, our tongue is most fit to o be    o read ting toy of mine, even in to s teries of poesy; no more to laug ts, as t inors to fools; no more to jest at title of "a r; but to believe, otle, t t treasurers of ty; to believe,    t bringers in of all civility; to believe,    no ps    sooner make you an    man, to believe, ranslator of utus, t it pleased ty by o give us all kno;quid non?" to believe,    teries tained iry,    by profane s it so believe,    t e proceeds of a divine fury.    Lastly, to believe tell you tal by their verses.

        ters so many a poetical preface:    t fair, most ric    all:    you sives:    t;Libertino patre natus," you s;;    "Si quid mea Carmina possunt:"    tes Beatrix, or Virgils Anchisis.

        But if (fie of suc!) you be born so aract of Nilus, t you ot -like music of poetry; if you    it ot lift itself up to look to try, or ratain rustical disdain, ry; t o be driven by a poets verses, as Bubonax o o be ro deato be done in Ireland; yet t send you in ts; t ; and aph.
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