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Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904.

Diana

Front Matter

Henry Constable (1562–1613)

DIANA,
OR,
The excellent conceitful Sonnets
of H. C. Augmented with divers
Quatorzains of honourable
and learned personages.

DIVIDED INTO VIII. DECADES.

Vincitur a facibus, qui jacet ipse faces.

AT LONDON,
Printed by Iames Roberts for
Richard Smith.
1584.

THE PRINTER
[i.e., JAMES ROBERTS]
to the Reader.

OBSCURED wonders, Gentlemen! visited me in TURNUS’s armour; and I, in regard of ÆNEAS’s honour, have unclouded them unto the world. You are that universe! You, that ÆNEAS! If you find PALLAS’s girdle, murder them! if not, environed with barbarism, save them! and eternity will praise you.

Vale.