[437b] Ib. v. 587-622.
[437c] Cf. Brydges’s Excerpta Tudoriana, 1814, i. 35-7. One was printed with some alterations in Rosseter’s Book of Ayres (1610), and another in the Third Book of Ayres (1617?); see Campion’s Works, ed. A. H. Bullen, pp. 15-16, 102.
[437d] Arber’s Garner, viii. 171-99.
[438a] See p. 390 and note.
[438b] Practically to the same category as these collections of sonnets belong the voluminous laments of lovers, in six, eight, or ten lined stanzas, which, though not in strict sonnet form, closely resemble in temper the sonnet-sequences. Such are Willobie’s Avisa, 1594; Alcilia: Philoparthen’s Loving Folly, by J. C., 1595; Arbor of Amorous Deuices, 1597 (containing two regular sonnets), by Nicholas Breton; Alba, the Months Minde of a Melancholy Lover, by Robert Tofte, 1598; Daiphantus, or the Passions of Love, by Anthony Scoloker, 1604; Breton’s The Passionate Shepheard, or The Shepheardes Loue: set downe in passions to his Shepheardesse Aglaia: with many excellent conceited poems and pleasant sonets fit for young heads to passe away idle houres, 1604 (none of the ‘sonets’ are in sonnet metre); and John Reynolds’s Dolarnys Primerose . . . wherein is expressed the liuely passions of Zeale and Loue, 1606. Though George Wither’s similar productions—his exquisitely fanciful Fidelia (1617) and his Faire-Virtue, the Mistresse of Phil’ Arete (1622)—were published at a later period, they were probably designed in the opening years of the seventeenth century.
[439a] They were first printed in 1656, seven years after the author’s death, in Poems by that famous wit, William Drummond, London, fol. The volume was edited by Edward Phillips, Milton’s nephew. The best modern edition is that edited by Mr W. C. Ward in the ‘Muses’ Library (1894).
[439b] Cf. William Browne’s Poems in ‘Muses’ Library (1894), ii. 217 et seq.
[440] Chapman imitated Spenser by appending fourteen like sonnets to his translation of Homer in 1610; they were increased in later issues to twenty-two. Very numerous sonnets to patrons were appended by John Davies of Hereford to his Microcosmos (1603) and to his Scourge of Folly (1611). ‘Divers sonnets, epistles, &c.’ addressed to patrons by Joshua Sylvester between 1590 and his death in 1618 were collected in the 1641 edition of his Du Bartas his divine weekes and workes.
[441a] Remy Belleau in 1566 brought out a similar poetical version of the Book of Ecclesiastes entitled Vanité.
[441b] There are forty-eight sonnets on the Trinity and similar topics appended to Davies’s Wittes Pilgrimage (1610 ?).