nor thought any thing so meet, as these sweet conceited Sonnets, the deed of that well deserving gentleman, master Edmond Spenser: whose name sufficiently warranting the worthiness of the work: I do more confid
So as Amphion was said to move stones with his poetry to build Thebes, and Orpheus to be listened to by beasts, indeed, stony and beastly people, so among the Romans were Livius Andronicus, and Ennius; so in the Italian language, the first that made it to aspire to be a treasure-...