Fifty-five Sonnets follow this Dedication, in the 1594 edition of Daniel’s DELIA and ROSAMUND AUGMENTED. The edition was designed by the poet to be the final revision of his Sonnets to Delia, fifty of which had already appeared in a separate volume in 1592. One was now dropped and six were added. Twenty-two of the Sonnets included in the 1594 edition of Delia were originally published (in the case of three with verbal differences) among a series of twenty-eight forming an appendix to the 1591 quarto edition of Sidney’s ASTROPHEL and STELLA. Of these twenty-two poems, the three, which underwent much verbal change, are again reprinted here (see Nos. XIV., XLIII., and LV.), but the rest are now omitted.
