But of that more hereafter. Nowe, my Dreames and Dying Pellicane being fully finished (as I partelye signified in my laste letters) and presentlye to bee imprinted, I wil in hande forthwith with my Faery Queene, whyche I praye you hartily send me with al expedition: and your frendly letters, and long expected judgement wythal, whyche let not be shorte, but in all pointes suche as you ordinarilye vse and I extraordinarily desire. Multum vale. Westminster. Quarto Nonas Aprilis, 1580. Sed, amabo te, meum Corculum tibi se ex animo commendat plurimum: iamdiu mirata, te nihil ad literas suas responsi dedisse. Vide quaeso, ne id tibi capitale sit: mihi certe quidem erit, neque tibi hercle impune, vt opinor. Iterum vale, et quam voles soepe. Yours alwayes, to commaunde, IMMERITO.
Postcripte.
I take best my Dreames shoulde come forth alone, being growen, by meanes of the Glosse (running continually in maner of a paraphrase), full as great as my Calendar Therin be some things excellently, and many things wittily, discoursed of E. K., and the pictures so singularly set forth and purtrayed, as if Michael Angelo were there, he could (I think) nor amende the beste, nor reprehende the worst. I knowe you woulde lyke them passing wel. Of my Stemmata Dudleiana, and especially of the sundry apostrophes therein, addressed you knowe to whome, muste more aduisement be had, than so lightly to sende them abroade: howbeit, trust me, (though I doe never very well,) yet, in my owne fancie, I neuer dyd better: Veruntamen te sequor solum; nunquam vero assequar.
Extract from Harvey’s Reply.
But Master Collin Cloute is not euery body, and albeit his olde companions, Master Cuddy & Master Hobbinoll, be as little be holding to their Mistresse Poetrie as euer you wist, yet he peraduenture, by the meanes of hir speciall fauour, and some personall priuiledge, may happely line by Dying Pellicanes, and purchase great landes and lordshippes with the money which his Calendar and Dreames haue and will affourde him. Extra iocum, I like your Dreames passingly well; and the rather, bicause they sauour of that singular extraordinarie veine and inuention whiche I euer fancied moste, and in a manner admired onelye in Lucian, Petrarche, Aretine, Pasquill, and all the most delicate and fine conceited Grecians and Italians, (for the Romanes to speake of are but verye ciphars in this kinde,) whose chiefest endeuour and drifte was to haue nothing vulgare, but, in some respecte or other, and especially in liuely hyperbolicall amplifications, rare, queint, and odde in euery pointe, and, as a man woulde saye, a degree or two, at the leaste, aboue the reache and compasse of a common scholars capacitie. In whiche respecte notwithstanding, as well for the singularitie of the manner as the diuinitie of the matter, I hearde once a diuine preferre Saint Iohns Reuelation before al the veriest metaphysicall visions and iolliest conceited dreames or extasies that euer were deuised by one or other, howe admirable or super excellent soeuer they seemed otherwise to the worlde. And truely I am so confirmed in this opinion, that when I bethinke me of the verie notablest and moste wonderful propheticall or poeticall vision that euer I read, or hearde, meseemeth the proportion is so vnequall, that there hardly appeareth anye semblaunce of comparison: no more in a manner (specially for poets) than doth betweene the incomprehensible wisedome of God and the sensible wit of man. But what needeth this digression betweene you and me? I dare saye you wyll holde your selfe reasonably wel satisfied, if youre Dreames be but as well esteemed of in Englande as Petrarches Visions be in Italy; whiche, I assure you, is the very worst I wish you. But see how I haue the arte memoratiue at commaundement. In good faith, I had once again nigh forgotten your Faerie Queene: howbeit, by good chaunce, I haue nowe sent hir home at the laste, neither in better nor worse case than I founde hir. And must you of necessitie haue my iudgement of hir indeede? To be plaine, I am voyde of al iudgement, if your nine Comoedies, whervnto, in imitation of Herodotus, you giue the names of the nine Muses, (and in one mans fansie not vnworthily), come not neerer Ariostoes comoedies, eyther for the finesse of plausible elocution or the rarenesse of poetical inuention, than that Eluish Queene doth to his Orlando Furioso; which, notwithstanding, you wil needes seeme to emulate, and hope to ouergo, as you flatly professed yourself in one of your last letters. Besides that, you know, it hath bene the vsual practise of the most exquisite and odde wittes in all nations, and specially in Italie, rather to shewe and aduaunce themselues that way than any other; as, namely, those three notorious dyscoursing heads, Bibiena, Machiauel, and Aretine, did, (to let Bembo and Ariosto passe,) with the great admiration and wonderment of the whole countrey: being, in deede, reputed matchable in all points, both for conceyt of witte and eloquent decyphering of matters, either with Aristophanes and Menander in Greek, or with Plautus and Terence in Latin, or with any other in any other tong. But I wil not stand greatly with you in your owne matters. If so be the Faerye Queeue be fairer in your eie than the nine Muses, and Hobgoblin runne away with the garland from Apollo, marke what I saye: and yet I will not say that I thought, but there an end for this once, and fare you well, till God or some good aungell putte you in a better minde.
APPENDIX III.
INDEX OF PROPER NAMES.
Abessa, i.
Abus, ii.
Achilles, v.
Acidalian Mount, iii.; iv.
Acontius, ii.
Acrasiai, ii.
Actea, iii.
Adicia, iii.
Adin, ii.
Adonis, Gardens of, ii.; v.
Aeacidee, iv.
Aedus, iii.
Aegerie, ii.
Aegina, ii.
Aemylia, iii.
Aeneas, ii.
Aesculapius, i.
Aeson, v.
Aëtion, iv.
Agamemnon, v.
Agape, iii.
Agave, iii.
Agdistes, ii.
Agenor, iii.
Aggannip of Celtica, ii.
Aglaia, iv.
Aglaura, iv.
Alabaster, iv.
Aladine, iv.
Alane, iv.
Albanact, ii.
Albania, ii.
Albany, iii.
Albion, ii.
Alceste, v.
Alcluid, ii.
Alcmena, ii.; brood of, v.
Alcon, iv.; v.
Alcyon, iv.; v.
Alcides, ii.; iii.
Alebius, iii.
Alexander, ii.; iii.
Alexis, iv.
Algrind, iv.
Alimeda, iii.
Allan, ii.
Allectus, ii.
Allo, iii.; iv.
Alma, ii.
Alpheus, iii.
Amaryllis, iv.
Amavia, i.
Amazon (river), i.
Ambition, ii.
Ambrosia, ii.; v.
Ambrosius, King, ii.
America, ii.
Amidas, iii.
Amintas, ii.
Amoret, ii.; iii.
Amoretta, ii.
Amphisa, ii.
Amphitrite (Nereid), iii.
Amyas, iii.
Amyntas, iii.
Anamnestes, ii.
Anchyses, ii.
Androgeus, ii.
Angela, ii.
Angles, ii.
Antiochus, i.
Antiopa, ii.
Antiquitiee of Faery Lond, ii.
Antonius, i.
Aon, iii.
Ape (the), v.
Apollo, ii.
Appetite, ii.
Aprill, iv.
Arachne, v.
Aragnoll, v.
Arcady, iv.
Archigald, ii.
Archimago, i.; ii.
Ardenne, iii.
Ardeyn, iv.
Argante, ii.
Argo, ii.
Argonauts, iii.
Ariadne, iv.
Arion, iii.
Arlo-hill, iv.
Armeddan, iii.
Armoricke, ii.
Armulla, iv.
Arne, ii.
Arras, ii.
Artegall, ii.; iii.; iv.
Artegall, Legend of, iii.
Arthure, Prince, i.; ii.; iii.; iv.
Arvirage, ii.
Asclepiodate, ii.
Ascraean bard, v.
Asie, ii.
Asopus, iii.
Assaracus, ii.
Assyrian Lyonesse, v.
Asterie, ii.; v.
Astraea, iii.
Astraeus, iii.
Astrophell, iv.
Atalanta, ii.
Ate, ii.; iii.
Athens, ii.
Athos, Mount, v.
Atin, i.; ii.
Atlas, ii.
Atropos, iii.
Aubrian, iii.
August, iv.
Augustine, ii.
Augustus, v.
Autonoë, iii.
Autumne, iv.
Avarice, i.
Avon, iii.
Awe, iii.
Babell, ii.
Babylon, iii.; v.
Bacchante, ii.
Bacchus, iii.
Baetus, v.
Ball, iv.
Ban, iii.
Bandon, iii.
Bangor, ii.
Barnaby, v.
Barow, iii.
Barry, ii.
Bartas, v.
Basciante, ii.
Bath, i.; iii.
Bedford, v.
Belgae, iii.
Belgard, castle of, iv.
Belgicke, i.
Belinus, ii.
Bellamoure, Sir, iv.
Bellay, v.
Bellisont, Sir, iii.
Bellodant, iii.
Bellona, ii.; iv.
Belphoebe, i.; ii.; iii.; v.
Belus, iii.
Biblis, ii.
Berecynthian goddesse, v.
Bilbo, v.
Bisaltis, ii.
Blacke-water, iii.
Bladud, ii.
Blandamour, iii.
Blandford, iii.
Blandina, iv.
Blatant Beast, iii.; iv.
Blomius, iii.
Boccace, iv.
Bonfont, iii.
Bowre of Blis, i.; ii.
Boyne, iii.
Bracidas, iii.
Braggadocchio, i.; ii.; iii.
Breane, iii.
Bregog, iv.
Brennus, ii.
Briana, iv.
Brianor, Sir, iii.
Brigadore, viii.
Bristow, iii.
Britany, ii.
Britomart, ii.; iii.
Britomartis, Legend of, ii.
Britonesse, ii.
Briton Moniments, ii.
Briton Prince, i.; ii.; iii.
Broad-water, iv.
Brockwell, ii.
Brontes, iii.
Bronteus, iii.
Bruin, Sir, iv.
Bruncheval, iii.
Brunchild, ii.
Brunell, iii.
Brute, ii.
Brutus, ii.
Brytayne, Greater, ii.
Buckhurst, Lord of, i.
Bunduca, ii.; v.
Burbon, iii.
Burleigh, Lord, i.
Busyrane, ii.; iii.
Buttevant, iv.
Byze, v.