The Fuller Worthies' Library.

THE

COMPLETE POEMS OF SIR PHILIP SIDNEY.

VOL. I.

ESSAY ON THE POETRY OF SIDNEY.

I. ASTROPHEL AND STELLA, AND SONGS. II. SIDERA, III. PANSIES FROM PENSHURST AND WILTON.

WITH NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS.

LONDON:

ROBSON AND SONS, PRINTERS, PANCRAS ROAD, N.W.

THE COMPLETE POEMS

OF

SIR PHILIP SIDNEY.

FOR THE FIRST TIME COLLECTED AND COLLATED WITH

THE ORIGINAL AND EARLY EDITIONS AND MSS,

AND IN THE QUARTO FORM

A HITHERTO UNENGRAVED PORTRAIT (FORMERLY IN POSSESSION OF
FULKE GREVILLE, LORD BROOKE) AND OTHER ILLUSTRATIONS.

Edited

WITH ESSAY ON THE LIFE AND WRITINGS, AND NOTES AND
ILLUSTRATIONS,

REV. ALEXANDER B. GROSART,

ST. GEORGE'S, BLACKBURN, LANCASHIRE.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

PRINTED FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION.

1873.

156 copies only.

1874, Apr. 14. Exciscription Fund.

(Vol. I., II.)

£.1 - 15.

ΤΟ

DAVID MASSON, ESQ. M.A. LL.D.

PROFESSOR OF RHETORIC AND ENGLISH LITERATURE IN THE
UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH,

AUTHOR OF THE LIFE OF JOHN MILTON,

NARRATED IN CONNECTION WITH THE POLITICAL, ECCLESIASTICAL, AND LITERARY HISTORY OF HIS TIME, ETC.

I dedicate

THIS FIRST COMPLETE EDITION OF THE POETRY OF

SIR PHILIP SIDNEY,

ASSURED THAT MY 'LABOUR OF LOVE' WILL BE

SYMPATHETICALLY REGARDED BY HIM,

AND AS A 'PEPPER-CORN' ACKNOWLEDGMENT

FOR OBLIGATIONS WHILE PURSUING RESEARCHES KINDRED WITH HIS OWN IN MILTON.'

I LIKE TOO TO RE-LINK MYSELF THUS WITH MY

ALMA MATER AND AN OLD CLASS-ROOM.

VERY FAITHFULLY AND GRATEFULLY,

ALEXANDER B. GROSART.