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

Linckt was in wedlock a loftye Thrasonical huf snuffe:
Jn gate al on typstau's stalcking, in phisnomye daring.
This cutter valiant in warfare soght his auenture.
Thee whilst his minion, with carnal wantones itching,
Chooste for a freend secret no woorse, then a countrye lob heerd swayne.
A pray for a paragon: but what? thee knurrye knob oake tree,
Thogh craggy in griping, in strength surpasseth a smooth slip.
When Thraso from bickrings, not bluddye, returned is homeward,
Of this hap aduertisde, with frantick iellosye taynted,
Hee seeks in thee fields, with swift enquirye, the riual.
Stay vagabund raskal (so he spake when he spyde the lob heerd hyne)
Thee clowne stout standeth with a leshe of bulleted hard stoans;
Then Thraso with naked flatchet, with thunderus owtcrye
Sayd: thow scuruye peasaunt, my wiefe th' hast, villen, abused.
My bed defiled: lyke a breaklooue mak'bat adultrer.
Al this J deny not, quoa the clowne: and what then: I pray thee?
Doost thow confesse yt? Thraso sayd: bye the blessed asemblye
Of the heunly sociats, hadst thow thy knauerye reneaged,
This mye blade in thye body should bee with speedines hafted.