The encomium of lady pecunia12/15/2023 Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Each page is checked manually before printing. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. NO changes have been made to the original text. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. Find more at This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Christmas, Librarian of Sion College, for the courtesy and liberality with which he permitted our transcript to be made from a volume of tracts possessing the greatest charm for the bibliographer for besides the present one, it contains the first edition of Shakespeare's Lucrece, and several other pieces of nearly equal value, in the finest possible condition. The Affectionate Shepherd itself will be found remarkably free from the coarseness which disfigures so much of the Elizabethan lite rature, - an additional inducement, if any were necessary, for rescuing it from the liability to destruction which is of course incident to any book of such excessive rarity. It Should be mentioned that in the original copies of the following tract are a few hexameter verses on the Rape of Helen, which have been omitted as of an inferior kind to the other part of the work, and for still more Obvious reasons. Excerpt from The Affectionate Shepherd Encomium of Lady Pecunia, or the Praise of Money, a curious manuscript in the Ashmolean Museum, and likewise printed in the author's life-time. Barnfield's Lady Pecunia and The Complaint of Poetry were used as sample texts by the early 17th-century phonetician Robert Robinson for his invented phonetic script. In 1599 The Passionate Pilgrim was published, with the words "By W. In 1598 he published his third volume, The Encomion of Lady Pecunia, a poem in praise of money, followed by a sort of continuation, in the same six-line stanza, called The Complaint of Poetry for the Death of Liberality. Two months later, in 1595, Barnfield published his second volume, Cynthia, With Certain Sonnets and the Legend of Cassandra. Although the poem was successful, it did not pass without censure from the moral point of view. In 1594, in his twenty-first year, Barnfield published anonymously his first work, The Affectionate Shepherd, dedicated with familiar devotion to Penelope, Lady Rich. Richard Barnfield (1574-1620) was an English poet who matriculated at Brasenose College, Oxford in 1589 and took his degree in 1592.
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