Specimens of English literature from the 'Ploughmans crede' to the ...

XIX. (b) (c) lord SURREY.439649. Coates, sheepcGtes.650. Of slaughter, with slaughter; Lat. ' furentem caede.'665. Thold, The old.Did on, put on, donned.721. Neoptoleni, &c. ; Neoptolemus (i.e. Pyrrhus) has swerved fromhis natural disposition.(B) The Restless State of a Louer.With respect to the poems of Surrey and Wiat, the following remarksare made by Puttenham, in the ' Arte of English Poesie,' first printed in1589.'In the latter end of the same kings raigne [Henry VIII] sprongvp a new company of courtly makers, of whom Sir Thomas Wyatth' elder and Henry Earle of Surrey were the two chieftaines, who hauingtrauailed into Italie, and there tasted the sweete and stately measuresand stile of the Italian Poesie, as nouices newly crept out of the schoolesof Dante, Arioste, and Petrarch, they greatly pollished our rude andhomely maner of vulgar Poesie from that it had bene before, and forthat cause may iustly be sayd the first reformers of our English meetreand stile. '—Arber's reprint, p. 74. This poem is in the metre calledterza rima; see note to Wiat's Satires, p. 442,14. Reducetb, brings again.Returne, return to former vigour.18. At hand, when near.19. Ti77ie list, lit. it pleases time ; but used for tiitie pleases.24. Against all others vse, contrary to the custom of all others.37. ' That, whilst appearing slack, ever most knits together.'40. ' For if I sometimes have found that which I sought, viz. thosestars by which I trusted to reach the port.'43. As, as if; as is short for also, wholly so.Sprites,spirits.48. Whiche, &c. ; which recovers its power through the haste of myflight.49.Plaine, complain.50. Carefidl, melancholy, sad.51. Strictly, this line ought to rime to Jill, but Surrey wished to makea complete set of three rimes {te?ie, grene, sene) at the end of the poem.(C) Description of Spring.This is one of the finest sonnets in the language.6. The hart hath shed his horns. Cf. Ovid, Art. Amat. iii.77, 78.8. Flete, float or swim ; see Extract A, 1. 259 ; p. 206.