Hypnerotomachia: The Strife of Loue in a Dreame

This text contains a few phrases in Greek, Hebrew and other languages, with transliterations given where possisble: אם לא כי הבהמה ΓΥΜΝΟΣ ΗΝ A number of typographical errors have been corrected. They are shown in the text with mouse-hover popups . Errors noted in the printed Errata list are similarly marked . The term “invisible” means that the character or punctuation mark does not appear in the text, but there is an appropriately sized blank space. Sidenote references (a, b, c...) are present or absent as in the original. Larger problems in transcription, along with some technical points, are addressed in the endnotes added by the transcriber. NUMBER 87 THE ENGLISH EXPERIENCE ITS RECORD IN EARLY PRINTED BOOKS PUBLISHED IN FACSIMILE (FRANCESCO COLONNA) HYPNEROTOMACHIA LONDON 1592 DA CAPO PRESS THEATRVM ORBIS TERRARVM LTD. AMSTERDAM 1969 NEW YORK [ v ] 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 4 , Aa-Cc 4 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. Strife of Loue in a Dreame. At London, Printed for Simon Waterson, and are to be sold at his shop, in S. Paules Church- yard, at Cheape-gate. 1592. [ v ] TO THE THRISE HO- NOVRABLE AND EVER LY- VING VERTVES OF SYR PHILLIP SYDNEY KNIGHT; AND TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE AND OTHERS WHAT- SOEVER, 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. W hen 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,…