First published in 1579, this transcription is of the first edition. The copy transcribed is thought to be a very early one, as it features an uncorrected numbering of folio 49 as 94. [Based on A Critical Bibliography of the Works of Edmund Spenser printed before 1700 (1933), by Francis Rarick Johnson, pp. 2-3]
504551The Shepheardes CalenderEdmund Spenser
The Shepheardes Calender
Conteyning twelue Æglogues proportionable to the twelue monethes.
Entitled To the Noble and Vertvous Gentleman most worthy of all titles both of learning and cheualrie M. Philip Sidney. (·.·)
At London. Printed by Hugh Singleton, dwelling in Creede Lane neere vnto Ludgate at the Signe of the gylden Tunne, and are there to be solde.
1579.
TO HIS BOOKE.
Goe little booke: thy selfe presentAs child whose parent is vnkent:To him that is the presidentOf noblesse and of cheualree,And if that Enuie barke at thee,As sure it will, for succoure fleeVnder the shadow of his wing,And asked, who thee forth did bring,A shepheards swaine saye did thee sing,All as his straying flocke he fedde:And when his honor has thee redde,Craue pardon for my hardyhedde.But if that any aske thy name,Say thou wert base begot with blame:For thy thereof thou takest shame.And when thou art past ieopardee,Come tell me, what was sayd of mee:And J will send more after thee.
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