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The Whole Works of Homer

Prince of Poetts: In his Iliads, and Odysses. Translated according to the Greeke. By Geo: Chapman

Chapman, George (1559?-1634)

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[THE ILIADS OF HOMER]

To the Imortall Memorie, of the Incomparable Heroe, Henrye Prince of Wales.

TO THE HIGH BORNE PRINCE OF MEN,

AN ANAGRAM OF THE NAME OF OVR DRAD PRINCE, MY MOST Gracious and sacred Mœcænas;

TO THE SACRED FOVNTAINE OF PRINCES; SOLE EMPRESSE OF BEAVTIE AND VERTVE; ANNE, Queene of England, &c.

TO THE READER.

THE ILIADS OF HOMER

TO THE RIGHT GRACIOVS and worthy, the Duke of Lennox.

TO THE MOST GRAVE AND honored Temperer of Law, and Equitie, the Lord Chancelor, &c.

TO THE MOST WORTHIE Earle, Lord Treasurer, and Treasure of our Countrey, the Earle of Salisbvry, &c.

TO THE MOST HONOR'D RESTORER of ancient Nobilitie, both in blood and vertue, the Earle of Svffolke, &c.

TO THE MOST NOBLE AND learned Earle, the Earle of Northamton, &c.

TO THE MOST NOBLE, MY singular good Lord, the Earle of Arundell.

TO THE LEARNED AND most noble Patrone of learning the Earle of Pembrooke, &c.

TO THE RIGHT GRACIOVS Illustrator of vertue, and worthy of the fauour Royall, the Earle of Montgomrie.

TO THE MOST LEARNED and Noble Concluder of the Warres Arte, and the Muses, the Lord Lisle, &c.

TO THE GREAT AND VERTUOUS, the Countesse of Montgomrie.

TO THE HAPPY STARRE, DISCOUERED in our Sydneian Asterisme; comfort of learning, Sphere of all the vertues, the Lady VVrothe.

TO THE RIGHT NOBLE PATRONESSE and Grace of Uertue, the Countesse of Bedford.

TO THE RIGHT NOBLE AND most toward Lord in all the Heroicall vertues, Vicount Cranborne, &c.

TO THE MOST HONORD, AND Judiciall honorer of retired vertue, Vicount Rochester, &c.

TO THE RIGHT VALOROVS and virtuous Lord, the Earle of Sovth-hamton, &c.

TO MY EXCEEDING GOOD Lord, the Earle of Svssex: with duty alwaies remembred to his honor'd Countesse.

TO THE RIGHT NOBLE AND Heroicall, my singular good Lord, the Lord of VValden, &c.

TO THE MOST TRVLY-NOBLE and Uertue-gracing Knight Sir Thomas Hovvard.

TO THE RIGHT GRAVE AND noble Patrone of all the Vertues, Sir Edward Philips, maister of the Roles &c.

[THE ODYSSES OF HOMER]

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TO THE GREAT AND VERTUOUS, the Countesse of Montgomrie.

Your Fame (great Lady) is so lowd resounded,
By your free Trumpet, my right worthy frend;
That, with it, all my forces stand confounded,
Arm'd, and disarm'd at once, to one iust end;
To honor and describe the blest consent
Twixt your high blood and soule, in vertues rare.
Of which, my friends praise is so eminent,
That I shall hardly like his Echo fare,
To render onely th' ends of his shrill Verse.
Besides; my Bounds are short; and I must, meerely,
My will to honour your rare parts, rehearse;
VVith more time, singing your renowme more clearely.
Meane-time, take Homer for my wants supply:
To whom adioyn'd, your Name shall neuer die.