Tottel sig. Yir

[sig. Yir]

 No lengerlonger  fame could hold her peace, but blew a blast so                         hye, That made an eckow echo  in the aier and sowningresounding  through the skye. The voice was loude & thus it said come. R. with happy daies, Thy honest life hath wonne the fame & crowned thee with praiespraise . And when I heard my maistres name I thrust amids the throng,  And clapt my handes and wisht of god  thatyt she might                      prosper long. 

Of one vniustly
defamed. +Another copy in ARUND: Harrington, Temp. Eliz., c. 1550-92, fol. 60. Author: unattributed. Structure: 26: 2×9 ababccdcd10 + 1×8 ababccdd10

I  Ne cancannot  closeenclose  in short and cunning verse, Thy worthy praise of bountie by desart: The hatefull spite and slaunder to reherse. Of them that see but know not what thou art,  For kindnature  by craft hath wroughtfashioned  thee so to eyesee , That no wightman  may thy wit and vertue spye. Butunless  he haue other felefeel, sense  thenthan  outward sight, The lacke wherof doth hate and spite to trie +Rollins suggests ‘so trie’. Thus kindnature  thy +Rollins suggests ‘by’.  craft is letdeprived                             of vertues light:  See how the outward shew the wittes may dull: Not of the wise but as the most entend, +‘those who look most intently’,                            ( Holton/MacFaul  ). Minerua   yet might neuer perce their scull, That  Circes   cup and  Cupides   brand hath blendblinded . Whose fonde affects now sturred haue their braine,  So doth thy hapfortune  thy huecomplexion  with colour staine. Beauty thy soe thy shape doubleth thy sore, To hide thy wit and shew thy vertue vaine, +‘your foe beauty, through the agency of your shape, doubles your trouble by hiding                            your wit and making your virtue appear empty’ ( Holton/MacFaul  ). Fellterrible  were thy fate, if wisdome were not more. I meane by thee euen G. by name, +‘This cloudy poem seems to be addressed to a man, not a woman. One would like to believe that                            he was the Gray who contributed to the miscellany, and who is referred to as ‘G’ at [‘An epitaph made by W.G. lying on his death bed, to be set upon                            his own tomb’ (Rollins). *] ‘We are inclined to think the poem more likely to be addressed to a woman, on the basis of the emphasis                            on beauty, and on the basis of the

conclusion’ ( Holton/MacFaul  ).  Whom stormy windes of enuy and disdaine, Do tosse with boisteous blastes of wicked fame. Where stedfastnesse as chiefe in thee doth raigne. Pacience thy setled minde dothe guide and stere, Silence and shame with many resteth there.  Till time thy mother listdesires  them forth to call, Happy is he +‘any man who would marry this woman’ ( Holton/MacFaul  ). That said,                            the status of the ‘he’ in this line is ambivalent.  that may enioye them all. 

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Of one vniustly
defamed. +Another copy in ARUND: Harrington, Temp. Eliz., c. 1550-92, fol. 60. Author: unattributed. Structure: 26: 2×9 ababccdcd10 + 1×8 ababccdd10

Of the death of the late countisse
of Penbroke. +Anne Parr, see glossary . Author: unattributed. Structure: 24: 6×4 abab10

Of one vniustly defamed. +Another copy in ARUND: Harrington, Temp. Eliz., c. 1550-92, fol. 60. Author: unattributed. Structure: 26: 2×9 ababccdcd10 + 1×8 ababccdd10

Of the death of the late countisse of Penbroke. +Anne Parr, see glossary . Author: unattributed. Structure: 24: 6×4 abab10

Of one vniustly
defamed. +Another copy in ARUND: Harrington, Temp. Eliz., c. 1550-92, fol. 60. Author: unattributed. Structure: 26: 2×9 ababccdcd10 + 1×8 ababccdd10

Of the death of the late countisse
of Penbroke. +Anne Parr, see glossary . Author: unattributed. Structure: 24: 6×4 abab10