Note 83 — THE AUTHORS INDUCTION.
Reading edition
Higins, by correcting what he had wrote before, re-composed several passages: The first three stanzas of the Induction are thus varied in the edition of 1575.
As Somer sweete with all hir pleasures past, And leaues began to leaue both braunche and tree, While winter cold approched neere full faste, Mee thought the time to sadnes moued mee On drouping daies not half such mirth haue wee, As when the time of yeare and wether’s fayre, So moue our mindes as mocions moue the ayre. The wearye nightes approched on apace With darksom shades which somewhat breedeth care, The Sun hath take more neere the earth his race, In Libra than his greatest swinge he bare, For pardy then the daies more colder are, Then fades the greene fruite timely, herbes are don, And wynter ginnes to waste that Sommer won, I deemde some booke of mourning theame was beste To reade, wherwith instructions mingled so As migh[t] againe refresh my wittes oppreste, With tediousnes not driue mee quyte therfro: Wherfore I went the printer’s straight vnto, To seeke some woorke of price I surely mente That might herein my carefull mynde contente.