Abel redevivus or, The dead yet speaking. The Lives and Deaths of the Moderne Divines. Written by severall able and learned Men (whose names ye shall finde in the Epistle to the Reader.) And now digested into one Volumne, for the benefit and satisfaction of all those that desire to be acquainted with the Paths of Piety and Virtve [by Thomas Fuller] |
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The Life and Death of Thomas Erpenius, who dyed Anno Christi 1624.
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To this Erpenius honoured memory:
Who was most famous in his generation,
A man of exc'llent parts to admiration;
And in the Orientall tongues so rare,
That few or none with him deserv'd compare:
For th'Arabick and Hebrew tongues likewise,
The Kings of France and Spain did him so prize,
Yea England, Holland, Germany, Italy
Proffer'd great summes t'enjoy his company:
And rare endowments, deep experience;
At forty years of age death took him hence.
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