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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.
  
Ad Famam
  
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
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THE FIRST BOOKE OF HOMERS ILIADS.
  
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THE SECOND BOOKE OF HOMERS ILIADS.
  
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The Catalogue of the Grecian ships and Captaines.
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THE THIRD BOOKE OF HOMERS ILIADS.
  
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THE FOVRTH BOOKE OF HOMERS ILIADS.
  
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THE FIFTH BOOKE OF HOMERS ILIADS.
  
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THE SIXTH BOOKE OF HOMERS ILIADS.
  
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THE SEVENTH BOOK OF HOMERS ILIADS.
  
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THE EIGHTH BOOKE OF HOMERS ILIADS.
  
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THE NINTH BOOKE OF HOMERS ILIADS.
  
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THE TENTH BOOKE OF HOMERS ILIADS.
  
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THE ELEVENTH BOOK OF HOMERS ILIADS.
  
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THE TWELFTH BOOK OF HOMERS ILIADS.
  
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THE XIII. BOOKE OF HOMERS ILIADS.
  
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THE XIIII. BOOKE OF HOMERS ILIADS.
  
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THE FIFTEENTH BOOK OF HOMERS ILIADS.
  
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THE SIXTEENTH BOOK OF HOMERS ILIADS
  
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THE XVII. BOOKE OF HOMERS ILIADS.
  
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THE XVIII. BOOKE OF HOMERS ILIADS.
  
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THE XIX. BOOKE OF HOMERS ILIADS.
  
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THE XX. BOOKE OF HOMERS ILIADS.
  
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THE XXI. BOOKE OF HOMERS ILIADS.
  
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THE XXII. BOOKE OF HOMERS ILIADS.
  
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THE XXIII. BOOKE OF HOMERS ILIADS.
  
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THE XXIIII. BOOKE OF HOMERS ILIADS.
  
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[epilogue]
  
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]
  
TO THE MOST WORTHILY HONORED, MY SINGVLAR GOOD LORD, ROBERT, Earle of Somerset, Lord Chamberlaine, &c.
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Certaine ancient Greeke Epigrammes
  
[All starres are drunke vp by the firie Sunne]
  
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THE ODYSSES OF HOMER
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THE FIRST BOOKE OF HOMERS ODYSSES.
  
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THE SECOND BOOKE OF HOMERS ODYSSES.
  
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THE THIRD BOOKE OF HOMERS ODYSSES.
  
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THE FOVRTH BOOKE OF HOMERS ODYSSES.
  
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THE FIFTH BOOKE OF HOMERS ODYSSES.
  
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THE SIXTH BOOKE OF HOMERS ODYSSES.
  
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THE SEVENTH BOOK OF HOMERS ODYSSES.
  
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THE EIGHTH BOOKE OF HOMERS ODYSSES.
  
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THE NINTH BOOKE OF HOMERS ODYSSES.
  
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THE TENTH BOOKE OF HOMERS ODYSSES.
  
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THE XI. BOOKE OF HOMERS ODYSSES.
  
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THE XII. BOOKE OF HOMERS ODYSSES.
  
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THE THIRTEENTH BOOKE OF Homers ODYSSES.
  
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THE FOVRTEENTH BOOKE OF Homers ODYSSES.
  
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THE FIFTEENTH BOOKE OF Homers ODYSSES.
  
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THE SIXTEENTH BOOKE OF Homers ODYSSES.
  
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THE SEVENTEENTH BOOKE OF Homers ODYSSES.
  
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THE EIGHTEENTH BOOKE OF Homers ODYSSES.
  
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THE NINETEENTH BOOKE OF Homers ODYSSES.
  
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THE TWENTITH BOOKE OF Homers ODYSSES.
  
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THE XXI. BOOKE OF Homers ODYSSES.
  
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THE XXII. BOOKE OF Homers ODYSSES.
  
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THE XXIII. BOOKE OF Homers ODYSSES.
  
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THE XXIIII. BOOKE OF Homers ODYSSES.
  
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The End of the XXIIII. and last Booke of Homers Odysses.
  
To the Ruines of Troy, and Greece.
  
Ad Deum.

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

The Lord not by the house must haue his grace;
But by the Lord the house: Nor is a man
Any thing betterd by his eminent place;
But his place, by his merits. Neither can
Your last place here, make you lesse first in honor,
Then if you stood first. Perfect Honor euer
Vertue distinguishes; and takes vpon her
Not place but worth; which place abaseth neuer.
So much you know of this; so much you show,
In constant gracing, for it selfe, each Good,
That all Forme, but the matter which I owe
To your deserts, I still leaue vnderstood.
And if this first of workes, your grace you giue,
It shall not be the last shall make you liue.
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