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The First Fovre Bookes of Virgil his AEneis

Translated intoo English heroical verse by Richard Stanyhurst, wyth oother Pohetical diuises theretoo annexed

Stanyhurst, Richard (1547-1618)

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THE FIRST BOOKE OF VIRGIL HIS ÆNEIS.

THEE SECVND BOOKE OF VIRGIL HIS ÆNEIS.

THEE THIRD BOOKE OF VIRGIL HIS ÆNEIS.

THEE FOVRTH BOOKE OF VIRGIL HIS ÆNEIS.

HEERE AFTER ENSVE CERTEYN PSALMES OF Dauid, translated in too English, according to thee obseruation of thee Latin verses.

HEERE AFTER ENSVE certayne Poëtical Conceites.

A diuise made by Uirgil, or rather by soom oother vpon a Riuer so hard frozen, that waynes dyd passe ouer yt: varyed sundrye wayes, for commendacion, as yt should seeme, of the Latin tongue, and thee same varietye dubled in thee English.

SO MANY TYMES IS THE LATIN varyed, and yeet as manye tymes more for the honoure of thee English.

Thee description of Liparen, expressed by Uirgil in thee eight booke of his Æneis, in which place, thee Poët played, as yt weare, his price, by aduauncing at ful thee loftines of his veyne: doon in too English by thee translatoure for his last farewel too thee sayd Virgil.

[Vntoe this hard passadge (good God) what phrensye dyd hale mee?]

AN ENDEVOVRED DESCRIPTION of his Mystresse.

HIS DEVISE WRYTTEN in his mystresses booke.

THREE ESPECIAL GIFTES, wherein his mystresse excelleth.

OF A CRAKING CVTTER, extracted owt of Syr Thomas Moore his Latin Epigrams.

OF A TEMPEST QVAYLING certeyn passengers borowed of thee same Syr Thomas Moore.

HESPERVS HIS CONFESSION, written in Latin by the Sayd Syr Thomas Moore.

OF TYNDARVS, THAT FRVMPED a gentlewoman for hauing a long nose, deliuered by the former author in Latin.

SYR THOMAS MOORE HIS receipt for a strong breath translated owt of his Latin Epigrames.

HEERE AFTER ENSVE CERTEYN Epitaphes framed as wel in Latin as English.

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SO MANY TYMES IS THE LATIN varyed, and yeet as manye tymes more for the honoure of thee English.

1

Theare chariots doe trauayle, wheare late the great argosye sayled:
By reason of the riuer knit with a frostye soder.

2

Wheare the great hulck floated, theare now thee cartwheele is hagling:
Thee water hard curded with the chil ysye rinet.

3

Where skut's furth laūched, theare now thee great wayn is entred:
When the riuer frized by reason of the weather.

4

Wheare rowed earst mariners, theare now godye carman abydeth,
Thee flud, congealed stifllye, relats the reason.

5

Now the place of sayling is turnd to a carter his entrye,
This change thee winters chillines hoarye bredeth.

6

Now wayns and chariots are drawne, wheare nauye dyd harrow:
This new found passadge frostines hoarye shaped.

7

Wheare barcks haue passed, with cart's that parcel is haunted:
From woonted moysture for that ice heeld the water.

8

Wheare stems haue trauersd, there haue oxen traced in headstal:
By reason yse knitting thee water heeld froe floing.

9

Wheare the flye boat coasted, theare cart wheels clustred ar hobling
This new strange passadge winter his hoarnes habled.

10

Earst the flud, vpbearing thee ship, now the cartwheele vpholdeth.
When water is ioygned firmlye with hoarye weather.

11

Whear ruther steered, thee goad theare poaked hath oxen:
Thee winters coldnesse thee riuer hardlye roching.