Book 4 — Le hore di recreatione:
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OR,
THE PLEASANT
HISTORIE OF
Albino and Bellama.
Discovering the severall changes of
Fortune, in CUPIDS journey to HYMENS joyes. To which is annexed
Il Insonio Insonadado, or a sleeping-waking Dreame, vindicating the
divine breath of Poesie from the tongue-lashes of some Cynical Poet-quippers, and Stoicall Philo-prosers
By N. W. Master in Arts, of Queenes Colledge in Cambridge.
—— Semel in anno Apollo.
Ergo,
Nè mea metra tibi Musâ composta jocosâ, Delibata priùs quàm sint contempta relinquas,
LONDON, Printed by J.D, for C.G. and are to be sold at the Princes Armes in Pauls churchyard. 1638.
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Notes in this chapter
Note 1 · In the case of most of the constituents of these volumes, there was little need of 'deliberating and pondering' like the excellent Sir ThomaNote 2 · I said, in speaking of Leoline and Sydanis, that we must take not merely the Heroic but the Mock-Heroic poem into consideration as origins fNote 3 · The curious addition Il Insonio Insonadado or 'Waking-Dream Undreamt' (whether the title is invented or borrowed, some one with greater knowNote 4 · Of Whiting himself I have been able to find out very little.6 He was of Queens' College, Cambridge; Brydges erroneously says 'King's', havin