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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]
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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.
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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.
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[THE ODYSSES OF HOMER]

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

The true, and nothing-lesse-then sacred spirit
That moues your feete so farre from the prophane;
In skorne of Pride, and grace of humblest merit,
Shall fill your Names sphere; neuer seeing it wane.
It is so rare, in blood so high as yours
To entertaine the humble skill of Truth;
And put a vertuous end to all your powres;
That th' honor Age askes, we giue you in youth.
Your Youth hath wonne the maistrie of your Mind;
As Homer sings of his Antilochus,
The parallell of you in euery kind,
Valiant, and milde, and most ingenious.
Go on in Vertue, after Death and grow,
And shine like Ledas twins; my Lord and you.
Euer most humbly and faithfully deuoted to you, and all the rare Patrons of diuine Homer. Geo. Chapman.
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