...servicable courtier without flattery, the beast of most beauty, faithfulness, courage, and such more, that if I had not been a piece of a logician before I came...he would have persuaded me to have wished myself a horse.33 Initiating his Defence with a negative example - Pugliano fails to persuade his student, breaking...

...flattery, the beast of most bewtie, faithfulnesse, courage, and such more, that if I had not beene a peece of a Logician before I came to him, I think he would have perswaded mee to have wished my selfe a horse.' Basset ParryJones had read the passage aloud to show...

...as: "the peerless . . . serviceable courtier without flattery." But Sidney's humorous response, "that if I had not been a piece of a logician before I came...have persuaded me to have wished myself a horse," mocked the knight-courtier's artificial performance of chivalric idealism.191 In 1581, Sidney performed...

...profession and of the creatures that are at its centre (praise so glowing, Sidney's narrator confides, that 'I think he would have persuaded me to have wished myself a horse', p. 95) as straightforwardly ironic, as a counter-example that sets off the latter's own vocation and...

...courtier ; without flattery, the beast of most beauty, faithfulness, courage, and such more, — that if I had not been a piece of a logician before I came to him, I think he would have persuaded me to hare wished myself a horse." Sir P. Sydney, Def. of Poesy. " Ecco apparire il cavalier armato Fuor...

...commended the art of horsemanship to Sir Philip Sidney with such warmth that, ' If I had not beene a piece of a Logician before I came to him, I think he would have persuaded me to have wished my selfe a horse.' In like manner, Sidney's famous apology for poetry and the English language worked...