TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES
The title-page to the 1593 edition—taken from The Complete Works of Sir Philip Sidney, Volume II (Cambridge, 1922)—is used as a cover.
Amongst the different editions Bithynia and Pontus are sometimes used interchangeably.
Some instances of “lower(ing)” should be pronounced “lour(ing).”
Endnote markers are given in [square] brackets, and page-numbers in {curly} brackets.
The following editions were consulted for most of the changes listed below: 10th edition, printed by William Du-Gard (London, 1655); 14th edition, printed for E. Taylor, et al. (3 vol., London, 1724-1725); Samson Low, Son, & Marston (London, 1868); and Penguin Classics (London, 1987).
Some minor spelling inconsistencies (e.g. gray/grey, sheep-hook/sheep hook/sheephook, etc.) have been preserved.
Alterations to the text:
Abandon the use of drop-caps.
Convert footnotes to endnotes.
Correct/regularize the spelling of character names.
Decouple ligatured Latin characters.
Modernize/regularize the spelling of: befel (befell), Bithinia (Bithynia), Bizantium (Byzantium), Cameleon (Chameleon), chastly (chastely), chrystal (crystal), dolor (dolour), dulness (dullness), e’er (ere), e’re (ere), enterprize (enterprise), fancie (fancy), fulness (fullness), gastful (ghastful), Hircania (Hyrcania), impressa (impresa), jerfaulcon (gyrfalcon), letchery (lechery), lilly (lily), loathesome (loathsome), Mantinæa (Mantinea), me seems (meseems), Missenia (Messenia), o’re (o’er), Panonia (Pannonia), porphyrie (porphyry), pye (pie), recompence (recompense), Seistine (Sestine), spie (spy), subtilty (subtlety), Trebisond (Trebizond), unchastly (unchastely), vail (veil), wherof (whereof), woful (woeful). Note: old word forms (e.g. dost, gat, sith, spake, etc.) have been preserved.
Punctuation is largely preserved save for the following changes: quotation mark pairings/nestings, possessives lacking apostrophes, missing periods, direct addresses lacking commas, etc. Also adjust some hyphenation: far fetched (far-fetched), illwill (ill-will), straw coloured (straw-coloured), etc.
Miscellaneous: farther/further, passed/past, than/then, and their/there.
Minor formatting changes to some songs and eclogues.
[Introductory matter]
“Jorge de Montemayor, the author of Diana Enamorada” change Diana Enamorada to Diana. (Jorge de Montemayor wrote Diana; Gaspar Gil Polo wrote Diana Enamorada, a continuation of Montemayor’s work.)
Change “they put wild improbabilites in the place” to improbabilities.
“made therein an absolute heroicall poem” to heroical.
“love in its various aspects; Helen, Queen of Corinth...” change semicolon to comma.
“of Elizabethan prose, the false antithees” to antitheses.
“of the older romances In imitation of Montemayor” add period after romances.
“London, Printed in the Yer MDCCXXV” to Year.
Change a few instances of “Fulke Grevil” to “Fulke Greville”, “Robert Walde-graue” to “Robert Waldegrave”, and Johnstoun to Johnstone.
“which brake the bone of his thigh” to broke.
“his will, and settling his wordly affairs” to worldly.
[Book I]
“that as our remembrance came everclothed unto us in the” to ever clothed.
“it is nor for me to attend so high a blissfulness” to not.
“to set on all the canvass he could and fly” to canvas.
“nor yet flubbered up with good fellowship” to slubbered.
“he thought migh either profit or gratify” to might.
“his countenance could not but with dum eloquence” to dumb.
“courage, and largness of magnificence” to largeness.
“small a boat) doth so overway poor Dametas” to oversway.
“This much now that I have told you is nothing” to Thus.
“Oh no, He cannot be good that knows” to he.
“by the skilfullest trencher-men of Medea” to Media.
“one of the Kalander’s servants rounded in his ear” delete the.
“not able longer to to control herself” delete one to.
“so famous over the the world as Argalus” delete one the.
“and whetttng their courage with revenge” to whetting.
“was acquainted with strategems) invented” to stratagems.
“to set fire in the all parts of Greece” to all the.
“was surpassing it in bravery of fighing” to fighting.
“wavering between looking for same stratagem” to some.
“upon oach never to bear arms against the Helots” to oath.
“this office be not. perchance, suitable to my” change period to comma.
“so ugly to behold, For my part” change comma to period.
“having set out some gallies under the charge” to galleys.
“of so many things united in perfecion” to perfection.
“so perfect a plat of the celestial dwellings” to plot.
“shortenened the way’s length, till they came” to shortened.
“which Pyrocles had written before he went a hunting” to a-hunting.
“take a bye-way which might lead to Kalander’s” to byway.
“the less curiously inquisive after them” to inquisitive.
“Where are all hereoic parts but in Amphialus” to heroical.
“and thus much villiany am I content” to villainy.
“at the olympian games there celebrated” to Olympian.
“because I wear a woman’s apparal” to apparel.
“since it hath an end alloted unto it” to allotted.
“be in as great exellency in yourself” to excellency.
“a wonted kind of desire to see rare fights” to sights.
“the Amazons: myself neice to Senicia, queen” to niece.
“Jupitor when he was in the form of an eagle” to Jupiter.
“under and carried it ahout as a mill” to about.
“the next day early to come a foot thither” to afoot.
“known him further than by report of his good justing” to jousting.
“by a certain Sycionian knight, was lost” to Sicyonian.
“breath a mortal mislike against Basilius,” change comma to period.
“to make him miserable by the fight of Philoclea” to sight.
“even when the sun, like a noble hart” to heart.
“The injury seemed grievious, but when it came” to grievous.
“heavenly or hellish title thou lift to have” to list.
“she leaped up, and ran to the lodge ward” to lodge-ward.
“so that it was a new fight fortune had prepared” to sight Fortune.
“guided with such traiterous eyes” to traitorous.
“Till I get her, shall I to keep innure myself?” to inure.
“And love with lovers hurt is inhumanity” to which lover hurts.
“No thral like them that inward bondage have” to thrall.
“And lives in fancy seeing,” to fancy’s.
“Gynecia’s but that she fouud too well” to found.
“hillock show, by the lofty olympus” to Olympus.
“love is better tban a pair of spectacles” to than.
“Busy with oker did their shoulders mark” to ochre.
“As bragging that free of all passions none” to passions’ moan.
“And that the byass of her blood was wrought” to bias.
“But lickrous, poison’d, fain to her would go” to lick’rous.
“but game, the self hurt wonton meant” to self-hurt wanton.
“A field they go, where many lookers be” to Afield.
“Like some which seek to salve their blooted name” to blotted.
“A hasten’d hare from greedy grayhound go” to greyhound.
“And then the Phænix feared to be caught” to Phoenix.
[Book II]
“had at least wise produced thus much happiness” to leastwise.
“no faint pleasure could with-hold him” to withhold.
“Thus having delivered his tale in this perplexed manner” to my.
“banished all vain fancy of superstitution” to superstition.
“heavenly bodies there are great hidden dieties” to deities.
“lone to take the ring Wherein truly at least” add period after ring.
“One time he danced the matachine dance” to matachin.
“have made a handerchief by that time a-day” to handkerchief.
“Let the sweetness of virtue’s disposition, jealous” to Yet.
“whom see was half ashamed she did love so well” to she.
“from them and, as it were two counter-ballances” to counter-balances.
“made partaker of this oft-binding light” to oft-blinding.
“whether the heavens at that time lifted to play” to listed.
“that they might fill the sails as they lifted” to listed.
“the more way-ward it showed itself towards them” to wayward.
“already he had been apt to determinine” to determine.
“and thinking to make all men a dread” to adread.
“both make ostentation of his his own felicity” delete one his.
“spots he artifically put upon his face” to artificially.
“I needed envy no farther for the chief comfort” to father.
“having only with them the two valiaut brothers” to valiant.
(that occasion, I kneeled down, and with humble heartedness, and hearty earnestness printed in my graces; “Alas!” said I,) to he, his, and he, respectively.
“the river not running forth right” to forthright.
“they began by piece-meal to take away the eclipsing” to piecemeal.
“The second-sweetly senced word” to fenced ward.
“Like pomels round of marble clear;” to pommels.
“Perching within square royal roves” to rooves.
“Which conduite-like with curious crooks,” to conduit.
“he was driven with the pummel of his sword” to pommel.
“a mile hence, and crossing a high-way” to highway.
“To cause full-wrath, which thou can’st not resist” to causeful wrath.
“Can thoughts still thinking, so rest unapalled?” to unappalled.
“And in thy case do glaze mine own debility:” to glass.
“The wretch compell’d a runnagate became,” to runagate.
“but humbly besought Pamela we should perform” to she.
“could not but fertily requite his father’s fatherly” to fertilely.
“thou now receive this disastered changling” to changeling.
“keeping a countenance ascances she understood” to askance.
“with all the conjuriug words which desire could indite” to conjuring.
“unto me to meet him at a place appionted” to appointed.
“have left such an off-spring, in shape” to offspring.
“those servants of our’s in readiness” to ours.
“thereto had she that scutchion of her desires” to scutcheon.
“who had been one of the cheifest make-bates” to chiefest makebates.
“laying indifferently among tbem, made such havoc” to them.
“meaning to observe a wassailling watch all” to wassailing.
“seemed to sing mauger the mauses” to maugre and Muses.
“which being confrmed with presagious chances” to confirmed.
“dull to any behooful resolution” to behoveful.
“marking eyes, he conferred wtth Antiphilus” to with.
“some hazard he might be in apparant likelihood” to apparent.
“she had even newly recelved news from” to received.
“which multipled the force of his anguish” to multiplied.
“by so henious a treason murdered” to heinous.
“Thy faint is dead, or dead is thy devotion” to saint.
“although my mettall were most mutable” to metal.
“I curse the fidling finders out of music” to fiddling.
“On rock’d despair, the burial of my bliss” to rock.
“The seed saft meaning is, no truth to miss” to fast-meaning.
“Hailstones of tears, of sight a monstrous blast,” to sighs.
“Be those despairs which have my hopes quite waft” to rased.
“For even the herbs our hateful music destroyes” to stroys.
“Who minds to please the mind drown’d in annoyes” to annoys.
“For proof of man, woo sprung of heav’nly fire” to who.
“One faith, he mocks; another faith he plays,” change both to saith.
“Yet thou art mickle warse, then e’er was I” to worse.
“When that we see our off-spring gaily bent” to offspring.
“And what manner a mind which had to that humour a vain?” to vein.
“Can then a cause be so light that forceth a man to go die? I.” to Aye.
“since unto her will I do winde? Winde.” to wind and Wind.
“Wo, but seems to me joy, that agrees” to Woe.
“Ods? what an ods is there since” to Odds and odds.
“My muse what ailes this ardor” to ails.
“So great passion all feel,” add a after great.
“Alas she faith I am thine” to saith.
“Thus sweet pain, I do yield what ere I can yield,” to whate’er.
[Book III]
“Dread not awhit (O goodly cruel) that pity may” to a whit.
“but they set so among certain tuffs of cypress” to tufts.
“Therefore would he not emply the still man” to employ.
“and will confirm his gilt, and your receipt of both” to gift.
“Then can one string make as good music as a concert” to consort.
“I have now such a liberty as the sealed dove hath” to seeled.
“the more it did exprobate, as she thought” to exprobrate.
“marriage; the worthiness of the suiter” to suitor.
“a certain prophesy had been told him that” to prophecy.
“For near acquaintaince doth diminish reverent fear” to acquaintance.
“was rather increased than any wise satisfied” to anywise.
“any entertainment of so unwelcome a guest the made Cecropia” delete the and add comma after guest.
“Dear niece, or rather dear daugher, if my affection” to daughter.
“great clerks into the world to serve as shields to keep them from those faults” to shewels (“scarecrows”).
“by the staff of vulger opinions, I would not” to vulgar.
“tail covered the crupper of of the horse” delete one of.
“so that he battered the lams thereof” to lames.
“His petrel and reins were embroidered with” to poitrel.
“Amphialus had over sticken himself so” to over-stricken.
“letting him have reins, petrel, with the rest” to poitrel.
“was indeed like the painter, that faith in his picture” to saith.
“thy wretched heart think it was timerousness that made” to timorousness.
“Place, see my grave up torn” to uptorn.
“repine with never so much grieving-Mother,” replace hyphen with period and space.
“This sight being the more cruel, since both love” to fight.
“took a body to show his (self unconceivable) beauty” to else-unconceivable.
“and looking a sideward upon the ground” delete a.
“that were accessary to this cruelty” to accessory.
“for no eye could have abiden to see such beauty” to abidden.
“prefering dutiful affection before fearful duty” to preferring.
“that thou art he beggarliest dastardly villain” to the.
“means to temper the minds of their proud woers” to wooers.
“self-love then first in him divided itself from vain glory” to vainglory.
“No villian, die: it is Philoclea that” to villain.
“a strong cask bravely covered, wherewith he covered his head” to casque.
“encroached to usurp a room in her right ride” to side.
“the rest were quickly discomfitted, and, despairing” discomfited.
(“can Musidorus have anything wherein I have no interest?” “I,” said he, “and for the present a greater wonder...) to Aye.
“and we only can restore them to themselvee” to themselves.
(“I,” quoth he, “and when my man Dorus durst...) to Aye.
“my sun, whose beams are shinlng bright” to shining.
“which dost lightsomely, methink, make me see the...” to methinks.
“Betwixt which two in me I have this sight” to fight.
“scattering lying a great number of rich medals” to scatteringly.
“and with a look full of sworn spite” to forworn.
“never after to feed on worse than furmetry” to frumenty.
“Giv’n to my heart, by my forewounded eye:” to eyne.
“Ho’d me most yours, then my long suit is sign’d.” to Hold.
“Nay higher thoughts (though thralled thoughts)” add I call to the end of the line.
“You none can claim but you yourself a right,” to aright.
“with the shame faced look of that suitor” to shamefaced.
“rising up with a kindly bashfulnes” to bashfulness.
“I can never acccount a wrong” to account.
“(Better despis’d) be wonder gazing eye.” to bewonder.
“As princes lose or change:” to prince’s loss.
“Two gleaning suns of splendour like I see,” to gleaming.
“For mishiefs great, day after day doth show,” to mischiefs.
“commanded them to carry forwith Zelmane’s bed” to forthwith.
“Where simple love, which chastness doth impart,” to chasteness.
“So that you may on higher flippers stay,” to slippers.
“Burnt Caban, lost my cloke,” to cloak.
“Lanquet, the shepherds best swift Ister knew,” to shepherd.
“His good strong staff my flipp’ry years upbore:” to slipp’ry.
“Ant, industry; and conney, skill to build;” to coney.
“And aye more awe towards him for to plaint,” to plant.
“As tigers, leopards, bears, and lion’s feed” to lions’ seed.
“When falcon they, and gross hawk saw in mew” to goss-hawk.
“Austere she is, when he would honest p’ays;” to plays.
“Lord, what bye-words they speak, what spite” to bywords.
“That never past soul word, I dare well say:” to passed foul.
[Book IV]
“left all consideration how to recover her” to leave.
“daughter’s little wits had quite left her great noul” to noll.
“mumping out her hoarse chase” to chafe.
“creatures, as Phyche did upon her unknown lover” to Psyche.
“included all the world within his sheep coat” to sheep-cote.
“to taste into herself new devised counsel” to take.
“Of humane life to be the quiet measure” to human.
“that which may by safest for yourself” to be.
“O mother of mine what a dreadful fuck have you given” to suck.
“perfectest workmanship, their chieftest honour” to chiefest.
“For if it were not a respecting the harm,” delete a.
“and to became all as well hangmen as judges” to become.
“which as soon as she apppeared to play her part” to appeared.
“hold but of Pamela, thinkihg it want of a” to thinking.
“her grace knew the ancient laws of Arcadia were” to bare.
“which likewise acording to the statutes of Arcadia” to according.
“as windows, stones, and pinacles were well” to pinnacles.
“was an extreme medly of diversified thoughts” to medley.
“the soldiers desirious of trouble, as the nurse of” to desirous.
“and laying order for the goverment by” to government.
“especially in a pince under whom they had found a refuge” to prince.
“And inward grief fail up with outward wailing” to seal.
“Within itself, and never tasted end:” to tasteth.
[Book V]
“kept close, withou conference with any man” to without.
“be shadowed out by the skillfullest pencil than by” to skilfullest.
“that it doth appal their minds” to appall.
“or the licourishness of dominion make you beyond justice” to lickerishness.
“the modern minds, who made suiters magistrates” to suitors.
“Philanax and the other moblemen should deal” to noblemen.
“Had she I say no practice to lead her unto it?” add commas after she and say.
“the name of this mankind courtisan shall ever be remembered” to courtesan.
“in this matter, e’er the eyes of the world upon you” to are.
“excellent Philoclea her hononr, by taking” to honour.
“hard-heartedly bent to apppoint otherwise” to appoint.
“these two are both abominable and inexcuseable” to inexcusable.
“which had Lynce’s eyes in another’s” to lynx’s.
[Book VI]
“much pitying the before-unheard of death of so excellent a queen” delete first of.
“what estate the castle was against the beseigers” to besiegers.
“the fates reserved so great a blessing in store” to Fates.
“begging what goodness solicites you to grant” to solicits.
“and the ill-bought quiet of an ignominous peace” to ignominious.
“This kingdom of Argus, wherein you are,” to Argos.
“the fates must be indulgent to your youth and beauty” to Fates.
“with a down-cast look, which sorrow excused” to downcast.
“Sweet link of hearts, joy’s surest anchor hold,” to anchor-hold.
“Man still complains upon his state to lowre,” to lower.
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