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Which other fansies driueth from my hart.  That to my selfe I do the thought reserue, The which vnwares did wounde my woful brest, For on her face mine eyes moughtmight  neuer rest, Sinssince  that she knew I did her loue and serue, Her golden tresse is clad alway with blacke,  Her smiling lokes to hide thus euermore, And that restraines which I desire so sore. So doth this corner gouerne my alackeexclamation of regret, failure, loss : In somer, sunne: in winters breath, of frost: Wherby the light of her faire lokes I lost. 

Request to his loue to ioyne
bountie with beautie. +A possible distant source is Petrarch, Rime 159: ‘In qual parte de Ciel, in quale Idea/era l’esempio onde Natura tolse/quell bel viso leggiadro … et come dolce parla et dolce ride,’ ‘In what part of Heaven, in what Idea was the pattern from which Nature copied that lovely face … and how sweetly she speaks and sweetly laughs’, translation Durling ; possibly alludes to the ‘Judgement of Paris’ . Author: Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey. Structure: 14: sur son

T He golden gift that nature did thee geue To fasten frendes, and feede them at thy wyll, With fourme and fauour, taught me to beleue. How thow art made to shew her greatest skill.  Whose hidden vertues are not so vnknowen, But liuelyquick  domesdooms, judgements  might gather at the furst Where beauty so her perfect seede hath sowen, Of other graces folow nedes there must. Now certessecertes, certainly, assuredly  Garret, +Unique to this edition, see                          Holton/MacFaul  : ‘Since ‘Garret’ is a common rendering of Fitgerald, this may be an attempt to                         adjust the poem to fit the popular Geraldine myth’.  sinssince  all this is true,  That from aboue thy giftes are thus electchosen : Do not deface them than with fansies newe, Nor change of mindes let not thy minde infect: But mercy himshow mercy to him  thy frende, that doth thee serue, Who seekes alway thine honour to preserue. 

Prisoned in windsor, he recoun-
teth his pleasure there
passed. +Occasioned by Surrey’s imprisonment at Windsor in 1532 for striking a courtier, see also ‘How each thing save the lover in spring reviveth to pleasure’ ; cited by Drayton, ‘Annotations of the Chronicle Historie, Henry to the Lady Geraldine, Englands Heroicall Epistles , Works , II, p. 287. Compare with ‘Description and praise of his loue Geraldine’. Another copy in L: Add. 36529, fols. 51-51v. Author: Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey. Structure: 54: 13×4 abab10+aa10

S O cruell prison how could betide, alas, As proude Windsor: where I in lustpleasure, secondary meaning of vigour  and ioy. With a kinges sonne, +Henry Fitzroy, Duke of Richmond, illegitimate son of Henry VIII and Elizabeth Blount,                         and husband of Surrey’s sister, Mary Howard.  my childishe yeres did passe, In greater feastes than  Priams   sonnes of Troy:  Where eche swete place returns a taste full sower, 