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P- 476. THE
SIXT & LAST BOOKE OF TROILUS
AND CRESEID WRITTEN BY
MR ROBERT HENDERSON
AND CALLED BY HIM
THE
TESTAMENT OF CRESEIDE.
1.
A doly season till a carefull dite
Should correspond & be equiualent.
Right so it was when I began to write
This Tragedy; the weder right feruent,
When Aries, in the middes of the lent,
Showres of haile gan fro the North descend,
That scantly fro the cold I might me defend.1
1.
Tempestas tristis argumento msesto
Videtur apta, bene & conuenire.
Sic erat, quando scribere eram praesto
Tragcediam hanc, inclemens coelum mire,
Cum grandines ab Ariete qui prodire
Solent coeperunt Borea sic descendere
Vt vix a frigore potui me defendere.
1 The English text follows, generally, that of Thynne (printed in Vol. III.
pp. 177-198); but see p. c, note 1.
The punctuation conforms to that adopted in the reprinting of Thynne’s,
supra. In the Latin, as prepared for press, in the copy presented to the
licenser Dr Thomas Wykes, there is hardly any pointing, and in some places
the marks are misleading.
P- 476. THE
SIXT & LAST BOOKE OF TROILUS
AND CRESEID WRITTEN BY
MR ROBERT HENDERSON
AND CALLED BY HIM
THE
TESTAMENT OF CRESEIDE.
1.
A doly season till a carefull dite
Should correspond & be equiualent.
Right so it was when I began to write
This Tragedy; the weder right feruent,
When Aries, in the middes of the lent,
Showres of haile gan fro the North descend,
That scantly fro the cold I might me defend.1
1.
Tempestas tristis argumento msesto
Videtur apta, bene & conuenire.
Sic erat, quando scribere eram praesto
Tragcediam hanc, inclemens coelum mire,
Cum grandines ab Ariete qui prodire
Solent coeperunt Borea sic descendere
Vt vix a frigore potui me defendere.
1 The English text follows, generally, that of Thynne (printed in Vol. III.
pp. 177-198); but see p. c, note 1.
The punctuation conforms to that adopted in the reprinting of Thynne’s,
supra. In the Latin, as prepared for press, in the copy presented to the
licenser Dr Thomas Wykes, there is hardly any pointing, and in some places
the marks are misleading.
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