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	~~:Panofsky 1982\|~~Panofsky, Richard J., ed. ''The Floures of Philosophie (1572) by Hugh Platt and A Sweet Nosgay (1573) and the Copy of a Letter (1567) by Isabella Whitney.'' Delmar, New York: Scholars' Facsimiles & Reprints, 1982.		Panofsky, Richard J., ed. ''The Floures of Philosophie (1572) by Hugh Platt and A Sweet Nosgay (1573) and the Copy of a Letter (1567) by Isabella Whitney.'' Delmar, New York: Scholars' Facsimiles & Reprints, 1982.

	== Introduction ==		== Introduction ==

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:Panofsky 1982|Panofsky, Richard J., ed. ''The Floures of Philosophie (1572) by Hugh Platt and A Sweet Nosgay (1573) and the Copy of a Letter (1567) by Isabella Whitney.'' Delmar, New York: Scholars' Facsimiles & Reprints, 1982.

== Introduction ==

Plat's ''Floures'' -- Senecan proverbs, "derives from the complex manuscript tradition of the ''Proverbia Senecae'', which inclues material from Publilius Syrus the mime, St. Marten of Braga, and such pseudo-SEnecan works as the ''Liber de moribus''" (vii) -- see J. L. Heller, Classical Weekly 36 (1942-3): 151-2.

Whitney follows his first 97 sentences closely; then begins to group related sayings together (see table on x)

:"Plat's allegory of these customs in part teases the customer to buy his book and in part asserts for the reader a moral exercise. His amorous readers will stumble, here and there, across anti-love sententiae and so will make unexpected discovery of truths. The miscellaneous ordering creates such opportunities: as the readers imitate bees in tasting now this and now that particular flower, they are prepared for the sudden personal application of a truism or an example. They are also asked to play a game, to spend time in the profitable exercise of perception and discovery. Thus Plat's and other collections of moral sentences can claim at least indirect kinship with such game-books as ''The Book of Fortune'' and ''Wit's labyrinth, or, the exercise of idleness''." (xi)

:"The ideas and literary techniques in ''A Sweet Nosegay'' are by no means original. Its style of exaggerated complaint, with stock literary and Biblical references and a vocabulary of emotional extremes, is familiar to all readers of middle-Elizabethan poetry. The book is original, rather, in its application of life to literary convention and in its energetic fortune." (xiii)

1570s, poets trying out different forms of narrative sequencing -- Turberville Epitaphs (1567), Gascoigne's Hundreth sundry flowers (1573), The Rock of Regard (1576), Nicholas Breton's Small Handful of Fragrant Flowers (1575)

:"CAn Whitney be made out t be an Elizabethan feminist? ... In all, my sense is that Whitney wished to claim no special identity as a woman author, but that her sex was one fact among others in this very personal work." (xix)

Jones also printed Symon's "A pleasnt Poesie" (xx)

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