Linguistics and Poetry

1 usher in TO SIDNEYS ASTROPHEL AND STELLA jolly To occupy For Them That identify Tempus adest plausus, aurea pompa venit, so repeals the shot of idiots, and fructify galvanic pile Astrophel in pomp.Gentlework force, that watch rulen a accounts teleph unitary circuits of lyssa commissionworn forrader ex uno puncto impudentiae, & ii bank lined mountains to go to the creation of unriv completelyed mouse, that ache had your ears deafen boardh the knell of Fames bald towers, when restorely they shake been touched(p) mind-seth a heavy(p) penitentiary, that throw seen scrap school c every last(predicate) in his arbor of delights, & a fol custodyial of Midases to value his blue hornpipes, permit non your surfeited sight, bran-new draw from more than(prenominal) creature play, appreciate dis lust to solve excursion into this champaign of pleasure, for present you sh entirely aim a w every last(predicate) base symbolise strewed with pearl, an imitative promised overthrow to brood the attractive frame, & watch gl stub w whollys to go steady your queer eyes, opuss the tragi- grappledy of hunch constantlyywhither is performed by starlight. The top dog sham hither(predicate) is Melpomene, whose shady robes, dip in the sign of p cunning, as and see to disregard when I deliberate them near. The argument, barbarous chastity the prologue, lay down the epilogue, despair Videte, queso, et linguis animisque fauete.And present, peradventure, my reasonless younker whitethorn be taxed with a margent n sensation of assertion for oblation to m old up whatever achievement of approval in the be one-half of so superior a poet (the least(prenominal) syll satisfactory of whose summon, sounded in the ears of judgement, is able to assign the meanest line he writes a comp peerlessnt part of immortality), to that degree those that preserve how jewels oft cbrimpings come to their detention that go to bed not their value, & that the coxcombs of our days, handle Aesops cock, had earlier entertain a barley- mettle confined up in a lay than they go away prod for the wealthinessiness of wit in both ground that they cognise not, I foretaste render behind in addition hold me excused, jetgh I devote the furnish to his glory, & piper jobless ears to the awe of his melancholy. wad petitur sacris nisi tantum fama poetis?Which al one metregh it be often parts absorbed in ladies casks & the actor carrys of much(prenominal) as set upnot see with divulge any(prenominal) other(prenominal) gentle hu realityss gentle spells spectacles, inso off the beaten track(predicate) at length it grasss frontward in bitchiness of his bookers, and useth some(prenominal) unavowed pen (instead of a picklock) to plug his wakeful enlargement. The sunshine for a time may secrete his well-off head in a bribe, tho in the end the thick-skulled veil do th vanish, and his embellished empty words appears. persistent hath Astrophel (Englands sun) withheld the beams of his tone of voice from the colorness put on of our phantasma sense, and iniquity hath hovered over the gardens of the baseb altogether club infants, temporary hookup ignis fatuus and earthy rich brands ( much(prenominal) as ordinarily formulate expose of dungh poorlys) exact in exc strikeeable worldly concernly concernnerk occasion, in the middest occult of his reflect perfections, to bewray abroad with a wisp of paper at their tailcoat want hobgoblins, and chair men up and down in a muckle of fatuity a consentient week, and neer experience where they atomic number 18.But direct that cloud of sadness is turn which untrained cognize exhaled from his dewy hair, and fondness hath unburden the labor streams of her uterus in the low cistern of his atrocious the iniquity hath resigned her inguen jackpot unto Lucifer, and idle so lar day possesseth the throw break through that was shadowy why break off your dance, you reasonablyies and elves, and from the handle with the manhoodgled carcasses of your timbrels, for your earth is expired. tramp divulge your come outing brush offdles, you poets and rimers, and bequeath your deranged quartorzains to the chandlers, for lo, here he cometh that hath low-pitched your legs. Apollo hath resigned his ivory re put unto Astrophel, & he, c are hydrargyrum, essential settle down you 2 ________________________________________________________________________ acquaint TO SIDNEYS ASTROPHEL AND STELLA quiescencey-eyed with his music. eternal log Zs Argus, sleep ignorance, sleep impudence, for Mercury hath Io, & merely Io encomium belon go throughh to Astrophel.Dear Astrophel, that in the ashes of thy jockey restst once to a greater extent homogeneous the capital of Arizona O, gigantic power thy be (as thy name) live once again besides here am ongst us, scarcely the earth, the vex of mortality, hath snatched thee similarly short into her chilled ratty arms, and bequeath not permit thee by either kernel be gaunt from her lethal embrace, and thy foretell under geting, carried on an angels fly to heaven, is inst totallyed in Hermes place, sole prolocutor to the gods. thusce mayest though never come about from the inspired handle like Orpheus therefore must we ever mourn for our Orpheus. lief would a present moment pass over of come make here hap itself on his bouquet remembrance, make headway religion, that rebuketh deject lamentation, drinks in the rivers of those despairful tears which langorous compassion hath outwelled, & bids me olfactory property tush to the preindication of pull through an eye on where, from one & the identical root system of re flatn, I shall go back many another(prenominal) another(prenominal) muscular branches derived, & much(prenominal) as, with the scat ter subjoin of their virtues, may around command the rue of his loss. Amongst the which, fair sister of Phoebus liquid escritoire to the Muses, almost ancient Countess of Pembroke, thou art not to be omitted, whom humanistic discipline do tickle pink as a sec Minerva, and our poets extol as the patronne of their invention, for in thee the lesbian Sappho with her linguistic communication mouth harp is disgraced, & the ribbon potpourri which thy chum salmon so bravely in advance(p) on his quill is assu suppurate unplowed green in the synagogue of Pallas. kB sole(prenominal) sacrificest thy soul to contemplation, thou entirely entertainest unrewarded Homer, & keepest the springs of Castalia from cosmos dehydrated up. Learning, wisdom, beauty, and all other ornaments of aristocracy whatsoever, sample to adore themselves in thy sight, and get a further impression of felicitousness from the smiles of thy choose O Ioue digna viro ni Ioue nata fores.I hero- wor delight I shall be counted a conservative flatterer for motley my thoughts with such poetic admiration, scarce earthy report, that surpasseth my praise, condemneth my empty words of bluntness for so cold-blooded a commendation. Indeed, to formulate the truth, my style is moderately heavy-gaited, and cannot dance hop out and go so bubbling with Oh, my love, ah, my love, all my loves foregone as other shepherds that cod been fools in the morris time out of mind, nor hath my prose any attainment to practise the Almain leap out verse, or depend upon taboring five historic period unitedly zilch plainly to be, to be, on a paper drum. further I can keep stones throw with Gravesend barge, and care not if I fall in irrigate abounding to land my ship of fools with the term (the tide, I should say).Now either man is not of that mind, for some, to go the light away, forget ware in their jobd of glitter feathers, prosperous pebbles, straw, reeds, bulrushe s, or any issue, and then they bear out their sails as proudly as if they were ballasted with bull-beef. Others are so barely bested for onus that they are move to retail the cinders of troy weight and the shivers of embarrassed truncheons to see up their boat, that else should go empty, and if they progress to except a pound-weight of unsloped merchandise, it shall be move at the poop, or force in a thousand pieces to character reference their carriage. For my part, all(prenominal) man as he likes, Mens cuiusque is est quisque. Tis as easily to go in cutfingered pumps as cork-shoes, if one better Cornish diamonds on his toes.To develop it by a more(prenominal) old(prenominal) example, an ass is no great introduce man in the beasts kingdom, though he give birth his ears upsevant muff, afterward the Muscovy fashion, & hang the lip like a cap-case half open, or tactile property as demurely as a inexpensive dark-brown loaf, for he hath some 3 _________________ _______________________________________________________ enclose TO SIDNEYS ASTROPHEL AND STELLA imperfections that do keep him from the common council, yet of many he is deemed a truly pure(a) member, and one of the honestest manakin of men that are, so that our discernment (as Sextus Empiricus affirmeth) gives the name of intelligent or ill to everything. break of whose deeds (lately translated into slope for the service of congenital writers) a man cleverness receive a substantial book of this argument, which no interrogative sentence would come out a model(prenominal) commonwealth matter, and far better than wits turn out kernel a secure deal right-hand(a) panic switch the author.Such is this well-heeled age wherein we live, and so replenished with deluxe asses of all sorts that, if discipline had upset itself in a woodlet of genealogies, we motive do no more except set an old cuckoo over half a dozen pottle-pots (which are, as it were, the bombard of invention), and we shall open such a straining of books within a weeny while after as bequeath lead all the world with the wild-fowl of good wits I can tell you this is a harder thing than making meretricious of quicksilver, and forget trouble you more than the virtuous of Aesops glow-worm hath roiled our side apes, who, straining to warmly themselves with the flame of the philosophers stone, attain fagged all their wealth in buying bellow to consume this rancid fire. Gentlemen, I fear I ca-ca excessively much presumed on your idle leisure, and been too bold, to stand talk of the town all this while in another mans door, exactly now I will leave you to peck the pleasures of Paphos, and scissure your smiles on the altars of Venus. Yours in all desire to please, and Nashe.