Excerpt from Zepheria Began to make frequent journies to Italy, affected Italian manners and habits, and caufed Italian literature to become exceedingly popular and greatly imitated. Among other por tions of their poetry which had been introduced into England by Wyat and Lord Surrey, and had now become familiar to our writers, was the Sonnet (petrarch of courfe being the model, though not long followed), a form of compofition which, although attended with difficulties, was readily adopted, eafily imitated, and became very common. It is quite remarkable indeed, how fafhionable and general this practice of writing fonnets to the fair fex had become during the period when Petrarch might be fiyled lord of the afcendant in Englifh literature, from about 1589 to 1596. Many of thefe fonnets were floating about in manufcript for fome time among their. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. 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. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. 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.