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Excerpt from Sir Philip Sidney: Type of English Chivalry in the Elizabethan Age
I am anxious to retract, and make such amends as I can for, one grave fault in the earlier volume. Careful thought and investigation have led me to repudiate the View there taken of the Astrophel and Stella episode; that is, of Sidney's connection with Lady Penelope Devereux, afterwards Lady Rich, and of the circumstances in which she became the hero ine of his sonnets. A blunder in noting down a wrong date, and consequently supposing that Lady Penelope's betrothal and marriage to Lord Rich took place in 1580 instead of 1581, partly misled me. This is all the more to be regretted because some critics and biographers, who were not aware of my error as to the date, appear to have been led thereby to over step the conclusions I drew from.it.
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