crazed quatorzains
to the chandlers! for lo, here he cometh that hath broken your legs.'
But the effect of Sidney's work was just the opposite to that which Nash
anticipated. It gave the sonnet in England a vogue that it never enjoyed
before or since.
{429b} With collections of sonnets of the first kind are occasionally
interspersed sonnets of the second or third class, but I classify each
sonnet-collection according to its predominant characteristic.
{429c} Daniel reprinted all but nine of the sonnets that had been
unwarrantably appended to Sidney's _Astrophel_. These nine he
permanently dropped.
{431} It is reprinted in Arber's _Garner_, ii. 225-64.
{432a} Arber's _Garner_, v. 333-486.
{432b} Ben Jonson developed the same conceit in his masque, _The Hue and
Cry after Cupid_, 1608.
{433a} Dekker's well-known song, 'Oh, sweet content,' in his play of
'Patient Grisselde' (1599), echoes this sonnet of Barnes.
{433b} Arber's _Garner_, viii. 413-52.
{433c} There is a convenient reprint of Lodge's _Phillis in Elizabethan
Sonnet-Cycles_ by Martha Foote Crow, 1896.
{435a} See p. 110, note.
{435b} Arber's _Garner_, vi. 135-49.
{435c} _Ib._ v. 61-86.
{435d} Reprinted in Arber's _English Scholars' Library_, 1882.
{435e} It was licensed for the press on November 19, 1594.
{436a} Reprinted for the Roxburghe Club in _A Lamport Garland_, 1881,
edited by Mr. Charles Edmonds.
{436b} Sir John Davies's _Complete Poems_, edited by Dr. Grosart, i.
52-62.
{436c} See p. 128, note.
{437a} Arber's _Garner_, vii. 185-208.
{437b} _Ib._ v. 587-622.
{437c} Cf. Brydges's _Excerpta Tudoriana_, 1814, i. 35-7. One was
printed with some alterations in Rosseter's _Book of Ayres_ (1610), and
another in the _Third Book of Ayres_ (1617?); see Campion's Works, ed. A.
H. Bullen, pp. 15-16, 102.
{437d} Arber's _Garner_, viii. 171-99.
{438a} See p. 390 and note.
{438b} Practically to the same category as these collections of sonnets
belong the voluminous laments of lovers, in six, eight, or ten lined
stanzas, which, though not in strict sonnet form, closely resemble in
temper the sonnet-sequences. Such are _Willobie's Avisa_, 1594;
_Alcilia_: _Philoparthen's Loving Folly_, by J. C., 1595; _Arbor of
Amorous Deuices_, 1597 (containing two regular sonnets), by Nicholas
Breton; _Alba_, _the Months Minde of a Melancholy Lover_, by Robert
Tofte, 1598; _Daiphantus_, _or the Passions of Lo
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