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| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. |
| Diella |
| Front Matter |
| Richard Linche (fl. 1596–1601) |
DIELLA. Certain Sonnets, adjoined to the amorous Poem of Dom DIEGO and GYNEURA. By R. L., Gentleman. Ben balla, á chi fortuna suona. AT LONDON, Printed for HENRY OLNEY, and are to be sold at his shop in Fleet street, near the Middle Temple Gate. 1596. | 1 |
To the most worthily honoured and virtuously beautified Lady, the Lady ANNE GLEMNHAM, wife to the most noble, magnanimous, and worthy Knight, Sir HENRY GLEMNHAM, &c. MADAM, YOUR many honourable virtues having tied me to your eternal service; to shew some part of my duty, I present your Ladyship with a few passionate Sonnets intermingled with the Loves of Dom DIEGO and GYNEURA. | 2 |
| Deign, gentle Lady, to accept them, and therein shew the greatness of your benignity, in receiving courteously a gift of so small worth: which though it cannot any ways equal either the number of your virtues, or the greatness of that noble House, whence your Ladyship is descended; impute it not, Madam, to my defect of Judgement, but of Fortune; for were I furnished with the greatest riches that blind goddess could bestow on a man of my state, both they and I would fall prostrate at your feet, and ever rest at your Ladyship’s devotion. | 3 |
| Yet, Madam, as it is, it is a Child of the Muses, and, therefore, worthy to be cherished; conceived in the brain of a gallant Gentleman, and therefore to be favoured: sent into the world by me, who have ever honoured your Ladyship, and therefore crave of your Ladyship to be protected, to whom I ever wish long life, lengthened with all honourable happiness. Your Ladyship’s in all duty, HENRY OLNEY. | 4 |
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