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Title: The Arte of English Poesie
Author: George Puttenham
Release Date: August 3, 2005 [EBook #16420]
Language: English
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THE ARTE
OF ENGLISH
POESIE.
Contriued into three Bookes: The first of Poets and Poesie, the second of Proportion, the third of Ornament.
[Illustration: AN CHORA SPEI (shield with hand coming out of a cloud and holding onto an anchor entwined with vine)]
AT LONDON
Printed by Richard Field,
dwelling in the black-Friers, neere Ludgate.
1589.
TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE SIR WILLIAM CECILL KNIGHT,
LORD OF BVRGHLEY, LORD HIGH TREASVRER OF ENGLAND, R.F.
Printer wisheth health and prosperitie, with the commandement and vse of his continuall seruice.
_This Booke (right Honorable) coming to my handes, with his bare title without any Authours name or any other ordinarie addresse, I doubted how well it might become me to make you a present thereo