Transcriber’s Note: This text contains a few phrases in Greek, Hebrew and other languages,with transliterations given where possisble:
אם לא כי הבהמה ΓΥΜΝΟΣ ΗΝ
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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
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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-Z4, Aa-Cc4
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
A
HYPNEROTOMA- CHIA.
THE
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.
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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.
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To the Right Honourable Robert
Deuorax, Earle of Essex and Ewe, Viscount
Hereford, and Bourghchier, Lorde Ferrers ofChartley, Bourghchier and Louaine, Maister of the Queenes Maie- sties Horse, and Knight of the most noble order of theGarter:
Is wished, the perfection of all happinesse, andtryumphant felicitie in this life, and in the