And that woodcut was reused in Scipio Gentile's _Nereus siue de natali
Elizabethae Illustriss. Philippo Sidnaei Filiae_ (1585) and on the title
page of the 1590 Arcadia (see Skretkowicz, lvii). It has Henry Sidney's
motto (quo fata vocant) rather than Philip Sidney's (vix ea nostra voco),
but otherwise, if you have the Kent State U.P. facsimile to hand, is your
simplest, out of copyright, public domain source for the Sidney arms.
Gavin Alexander
At 10:16 09/08/00 +0300, you wrote:
>For curious Spenserians, the Henry Sidney arms are printed cheek-by-jowl
>with Arthur, Lord Grey's, and above those of Master Thomas Smith, customs
>agent, on the verso of the title page of Richard Robinson's translation (c.
>1582) of Leland's Arthurian history, *The Assertion of King Arthur*. The
>text and arms are reprinted in the Early English Text Society 165, *The
>Famous Historie of Chinon of England...*. Ed. W.E. Mead (1925).
>
>[The date of the text clearly intrigues re Grey + Sid's --and Arthur's--
>actions in Ireland... but does anyone know if this Thomas Smith (not the
>arduous son of the administrator) had connections to that country?]
>
>--Tom Herron
>
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