Elizabethan Critical Essays Volume 2 (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THOMAS NASH (THE Preface To Sidney-s Astrophel And Stella) [This Preface appears in the first quarto edition of Sir Philip Sidney's Astrophel and Stella, printed at London by Thomas Newman in 1591. The text is taken from the copy in the British Museum.] 'TEMPUS adest plausus; aurea pompa venit: so endes .. the Sceane of Idiots, and enter Astrophel in pompe. Gentlemen, that haue seene a thousand lines of folly, drawn forth ex vno puncto impudenhae,