The Complete Poems of Richard Barnfield/Part 4
IV.(A) THE ENCOMION OF LADY PECUNIA.
(B) THE COMPLAINT OF POETRIE FOR THE DEATH OF LIBERALITIE.
(C) THE COMBAT BETWEENE CONSCIENCE AND COUETOUSNESSE IN THE MINDE OF MAN.
1598-1605.
Note.—Besides the fac-similes of the original title-pages of the Encomion of Lady Pecunia, &c. (1598) there precede it (in print) the title-page of the new edition of 1605. Mr. Collier has reprinted both—the latter a superfluity, as the additions are of no extent. In the places these additions are added, and also the few variæ lectiones. Mr. Collier imagined that the Bridgewater copy of the 1605 edition was unique, but there is a second in the Bodleian. See our Introduction on Mr. Collier's mistaken withdrawal of Barnefield's charming Ode from him to Shakespeare; also the Isham MS., at close of this volume, for the sonnet-dedicatory with a gift-copy of "Lady Pecunia," which is found (without the name of Spencer) in 1605 edition.—G.