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Title: Hypnerotomachia
The Strife of Loue in a Dreame
Author: Francesco Colonna
Translator: Robert Dallington
Release Date: May 27, 2006 [EBook #18459]
Language: English
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Number 87
THE ENGLISH
EXPERIENCE
Its Record in Early Printed Books
Published in Facsimile
[Illustration]
(FRANCESCO COLONNA)
HYPNEROTOMACHIA
London 1592
Da Capo Press
Theatrum Orbis Terrarum Ltd.
Amsterdam 1969
New York

The publishers acknowledge their gratitude
to the Curators of the
Bodleian Library, Oxford,
for their permission to reproduce
the Library's copy.
S.T.C. No.5577
Collation: A-Z (4º), Aa-Cc (4º)
Published in 1969 by
Theatrum Orbis Terrarum Ltd.,
O. Z.
Voorburgwal 85, Amsterdam

&
Da Capo Press
· a division of Plenum Publishing Corporation ·
227 West 17th Street, New York. 10011
Printed in The Netherlands

HYPNEROTOMA-
_CHIA_.

The
Strife of Loue in a
_Dreame_.
[Illustration]
At London,
Printed for Simon Waterson, and are
to be sold at his
shop, in S. Paules Church-
_yard, at Cheape-gate_.
_1592._
TO THE THRISE HO-
NOVRABLE AND EVER LY-
VING VERTVES OF SYR _PHILLIP_
_SYDNEY_ KNIGHT;
AND TO THE
RIGHT HONORABLE AND OTHERS
WHATSOEVER,
WHO LIVING LOVED HIM,
_AND BEING
DEAD GIVE HIM_
_HIS DVE_.
To the Right Honourable Robert
Deuorax, Earle of Essex and Ewe,
Viscount
Hereford, and Bourghchier, Lorde Ferrers of Chartley,

Bourghchier and Louaine, Maister of the Queenes Maie-
_sties Horse,
and Knight of the most noble order of the Garter:_ Is wished, the
perfection of all happinesse, and tryumphant felicitie in this life, and in

the worlde
to come.
When I had determined (Right honorable) to dedicate this Booke, to the
euerlyuing vertues of that matchlesse Knight Syr _Phillip Sydney_; me
thought that I could not finde out a more Noble personage then your
selfe, and more fit, to patronize, shield, and defende my dutie to the
deade, then your Honour, whose greatnes is such, and vertues of that
power, as who so commendeth them, deserueth not to be accounted a
flatterer, but he that doth not the same, may be thought an euill willer.
Hovv your Honor vvill accept hereof, I make no doubt, because that
curtesie attendeth vpon true nobilitie; but my humble request is, that
your Honor may not thinke of me (by the tytle of the Booke, and some
part of the discourse) as if I vvere amorous, and did speake according
to my ovvne passions, for I beeing restrained of my liberty, and helde
in the graue of obliuion, where I still as yet remaine, oppressed with
Melancholie, and wearied vvith deeper studies, I vvas glad to beguile
the time with these conceits, anothomising in them, the vanitie of this
life, and vncertaintie of the delights therof, in the Dreame of
_Poliphilus_; Which if it shall please your Honor at conuenient leysure
to looke ouer, pardoning what you finde amisse, and weighing my good
will, I shall thinke my selfe most happy.
And thus I humbly take my