Note 440 — APPENDIX (continued 2)

Chapman imitated Spenser by appending fourteen like sonnets to his translation of Homer in 1610; they were increased in later issues to twenty-two. Very numerous sonnets to patrons were appended by John Davies of Hereford to his Microcosmos (1603) and to his Scourge of Folly (1611). ‘Divers sonnets, epistles, &c.’ addressed to patrons by Joshua Sylvester between 1590 and his death in 1618 were collected in the 1641 edition of his Du Bartas his divine weekes and workes.