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The Third Dayes Creation

By that most excellent, learned, and diuine Poet, VVilliam, Lord Bartas. Done verse for verse out of the originall French by Thomas VVinter

Winter, Thomas

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The third Day of the first Weeke of the most excellent, learned, and diuine Poet, William, Lord Bartas.

To the Translator.

To the honorable Gentleman, Sir Thomas Chaloner Knight.

To the right worthy Knight Sir George Somers.

To the vertuous and nobly-descended Sir Thomas Lucy the younger, Knight.

To the learned Ciuilian, Doctor Iames, Iustice of Peace and Quorum in the Countie of Somerset.

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Scinduntur vestes, gemmæ franguntur & aurum,
Carmina quam tribuent fama perennis erit,

Ouid. Amor. lib. 1. Eleg. 10.