alke of him whom louely Leda lost
And some of Echo's loue that was so coy, &c.[36]

Afterwards, falling in love with a lady, he closes these sonnets with a
palinode.[37]

I have before found occasion to cite the Sonnets of H. C. called _Diana_
printed in 1592.[38] As also _Dieella_ [sic], or _Sonnets_ by R. L.
printed in 1596.[39] With these may be mentioned a set of Sonnets,
entitled _Fidessa more chaste than kinde_. By B. Griffin, Gent. At
London. Printed by the Widow Orwin for Matthew Lownes, 1596.[40] They
are dedicated to Mr William Essex of Lambourne in Berkshire. Then
follows a deprecatory address to the gentlemen of the Inns of Court, who
are earnestly requested to protect at least to approve this first
attempt of a stranger; and who promises, if now successful, to publish a
pastoral the next time. It is possible that some other writers of this
class may have escaped my searches. I do not wish to disturb their
repose, which is likely to be lasting.

NOTES TO THE TEXT

Warton's notes, which in the manuscript are designated by letters or
symbols, have been numbered. Brackets enclose all the editor's
corrections, expansions, and comments. The parentheses are Warton's.

[1] [Thomas Warton's original version began "The temporary vogue which
..." The final version, here parenthesized in the text, represents, it
seems fairly certain, Joseph Warton's expansion. Although this
deprecatory comment seems rather abrupt coming after five sections
devoted to the Elizabethan satirists, Joseph Warton is not disparaging
where his brother praised. Thomas Warton had already (IV, 69) belittled
the "innumerable crop of _satirists_, and of a set of writers differing
but little more than in name, and now properly belonging to the same
species, _Epigrammatists_."]

[2] [Warton here combined several remarks in Dryden's essay "The Original
and Progress of Satire." See John Dryden, _Essays_, ed. W. P. Ker
(Oxford, 1900), II, 111-112. There were six, not four editions of
Holiday's _Persius_.]

[3] [Warton refers presumably to Isaac Reed's _Collection of Old Plays_
(London, 1780).]

[4] [Jehan de] Nostredam [e]. _[Les] Vies des [...] Poet[es]
Provens[aux]._ [Lyon, 1575] n. 59. pag. 199.

[5] [William Hayley. _An] Ess[ay]_ on _Epic Poetry_. [London, 1782]
_Notes, Ess._ iii. v. 81. p. 171.

[6] They are entered to him, feb. 4, under that year [1591/92]. Registr.
_Station._ B. fol. 284. a. In sixteens. I have a copy. Wh