Esther M. Zimmer Lederberg
Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey 1546: Sonnet VIII
From Tuskane came my Ladies worthy race:
Faire Florence was sometime her auncient seate:
The Western yle, whose pleasant shore doth face
Wilde Cambers clifs, furst gave her lively heate:
Fostred she was with milk of Irishe brest:
Her sire, an Earle: her dame, of Princes blood.
From tender yeres, in Britain did she rest,
With kinges child, who tasteth ghostly food.
Honsdon did first present her to mine iyen:
Bright is her hewe, and Geraldine she hight.
Hampton me taught to wishe her first for mine:
And Windsor, alas, doth chase me from her sight.
Her beauty of kinde, her vertues from above,
Happy is he, that can obtaine her love.
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