Chapter 8

“If you keep it to yourself, or to such friends who will weigh error in the balance of good-will, I hope for the father’s sake it will be pardoned, perchance made much of, though in itself it have deformities. For indeed for severer eyes it is not, being a trifle, and that triflingly handled.” The _Arcadia_ was entered in the Register of the Stationer’s Company in 1588, by William Ponsonbie, the publisher of Spenser’s _Fairie Queene_; and the first edition saw the light in a thick quarto in 1590. A photo-lithog…