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- THE PASSIONATE PILGRIM 17
Sidney's Sonnets, 1591.
The publisher Jones was indifferent to the complaint, and in 1594 he exposed the poet Breton to the like indignity for a second time. Very early in that year Jones published, with the licence of his Company, a new miscellany which he called ‘The Arbor of Amorous Deuices . . . by N. B. Gent.’ In a preliminary epistle *To the Gentlemen Readers*, he boldly called attention to the fact that ‘this pleasant Arbor for Gentlemen’ was ‘many mens workes, excellent Poets, and most, not the meanest in estate and degree’. Jones’ new miscellany consisted of thirty short poems. Breton was only responsible for six or seven of them, yet the title-page ascribed all of them to him.¹
Two volumes of the utmost literary interest, which were also issued in 1591, illustrate how readily poetic manuscripts fell, without the knowledge of the author or his friends, into a publisher’s clutches. Firstly, in that year, Thomas Newman, a stationer of small account, discovering that Sidney’s sonnets were ‘spread abroad in written copies’, put them into print on his own initiative, together with an appendix of ‘sundry other rare Sonnets’, which he ascribed to divers anonymous ‘noblemen and gentry’. Samuel Daniel, the poet, soon discovered to his dismay that Newman, without giving him any hint of his intention, had made free in the
¹ Of each of these miscellanies assigned to Breton only single copies are now known to be extant; they are even rarer than *The Passionate Pilgrim*. A unique copy of the *Bower* is at Britwell, and a unique copy of the *Arbor* (defective and without title-page) is in the Capell collection at Trinity College, Cambridge. Another example of the assignment by an adventurous publisher of a collection of miscellaneous poems to a single author, whereas the contents of the volume were from many pens, is offered by the second edition of Constable’s *Diana*, issued by James Roberts in 1594. The printer, Richard Smith, distributed twenty-one genuine sonnets by Constable, which he had brought out in a separate and authentic volume in 1592, through a collection of seventy-five sonnets, of which fifty-four were by ‘other honourable and learned personages’. Eight of the supplementary poems, which the publisher Smith connected with Constable’s name, were justly claimed for Sir Philip Sidney in the authorized collection of his works in 1598.
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