Certain Selected Odes Of Horace, Englished and their Arguments annexed. With Poems (Antient and Modern) of diuers Subjects, Translated. Whereunto are added, both in Latin and English, sundry new Epigrammes. Anagrammes. Epitaphes [by John Ashmore] |
[RVERENDISSIMO IN CHRISTO PATRI ET DOMINO,
D. Todiæ, Archiepiscopo Eboracensi
Angl. Primati & Metropolitano dignissimo] |
Certain Selected Odes Of Horace, Englished | ||
[RVERENDISSIMO IN CHRISTO PATRI ET DOMINO, D. Todiæ, Archiepiscopo Eboracensi Angl. Primati & Metropolitano dignissimo]
If Thee, the Muses sacred Rites that knowes,And from whose Lips pure Attick Hony flowes,
These Lyrick Poet's Songs doo not displease,
Tun'd (as I could) to my Pipe's homely Laies,
But (doom'd to darknes) by thy gracefull Sight
Bee brought abroad, to see the gladsome Light;
No gleering Scorns I'll fear, nor spitefull Gibes,
Nor crabbed Criticks, nor Grammarian Tribes.
Thou, thou alone, 'gainst all these Darts shalt bee
An Aiax-Shield, and sweet Defence to mee.
Amplitudini tuæ, omni observantia devotus, Iohn Ashmore.
Certain Selected Odes Of Horace, Englished | ||