Note 103c — VII—THE SONNETS AND THEIR LITERARY HISTORY

Lodge’s Margarite, p. 79. See Appendix IX. for the text of Desportes’s sonnet (Diane, livre ii. No. iii.) and Lodge’s translation in Phillis. Lodge gave two other translations of the same sonnet of Desportes—in his romance of Rosalind (Hunterian Society’s reprint, p. 74), and in his volume of poems called Scillaes Metamorphosis (p. 44). Sonnet xxxiii. of Lodge’s Phillis is rendered with equal literalness from Ronsard. But Desportes was Lodge’s special master,