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Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904.

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Front Matter

William Percy (1575–1648)

SONNETS
TO THE FAIREST
COELIA.

  • Parve, nec invideo, sine me liber ibis ad illam,
  • Hei mihi quod domino non licet ire tuo.—TRIST. 1.


  • L O N D O N,
    Printed by ADAM ISLIP,
    for W. P.
    1594.

    To the Reader.

    COURTEOUS READER,
    WHEREAS I was fully determined to have concealed my Sonnets as things privy to myself; yet, of courtesy, having lent them to some, they were secretly committed to the Press and almost finished, before it came to my knowledge.

    Wherefore making, as they say, Virtue of Necessity, I did deem it most convenient to prepose my Epistle, only to beseech you to account of them as of toys and amorous devices; and, ere long, I will impart unto the World another Poem, which shall be both more fruitful and ponderous.

    In the mean while, I commit these, as a pledge, to your indifferent censures.
    London, 1594.

    W. PERCY.