Note 179 — Chapter V
Elizabeth Lee translation
"Goe little booke! thy selfe present As childe whose father is unkent To him that is the President Of noblenesse and chevalree...."
Dedication of the "Shepheardes Calender." Sidney seems to have had a right and not over-enthusiastic appreciation of Spenser's eclogues; in his "Apologie for Poetrie" he is content to say that "the Sheapheardes Kalender hath much poetrie in his eglogues: indeede worthy the reading if I be not deceived" (Arber's reprint, p. 62).