To The Right Honorable The Lord S.

Pardon, _sweete flower of Matchles poetrie,

And fairest bud the red rose euer bare;

Although my Muse, devorst from deeper care,

Presents thee with a wanton Elegie.

Ne blame my verse of loose unchastitie

For painting forth the things that hidden are,

Since all men acte what I in speache declare,

Onlie induced with varietie.

Complants and praises euery one can write,

And passion out their pangu's in statlie rimes;

But of loues pleasures none did euer write,

That have succeeded in theis latter times.

Accept of it, Deare Lord, in gentle gree,

And better lynes, ere long, shall honor thee.

Thomas Nashe

Thomas Nashe, (born 1567, Lowestoft, Suffolk, Eng.—died c. 1601, Yarmouth, Norfolk?), pamphleteer, poet, dramatist, and author of The Unfortunate Traveller; or, The Life of Jacke Wilton (1594), the first picaresque novel in English. Nashe was educated at the University of Cambridge, and about 1588 he went to London, where he became associated with Robert Greene and other professional writers. In 1589 he wrote The Anatomie of Absurditie and the preface to Greene’s Menaphon. Both works are bold, opinionated surveys of the contemporary state of writing; occasionally obscure, they are euphuistic in style and range freely over a great variety of topics.

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