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The destrvction of Troy

or the acts of Aeneas. Translated ovt of the second booke of the Aeneads of Virgill, that peerelesse Prince of Latine Poets. With the Latine verse on the one side, and the English Verse on the other, that the congruence of the translation with the Originall may the better appeare. As also a Centurie of Epigrams, and a Motto vpon the Creede, thereunto annexed. By Sr Thomas Wrothe

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In Curuum. Ep. 41.

VVhen Curuus first Siluanus daughter saw,
Her heat of youth his frostie bloud did thaw;
Which so inflamd the aged mans desire,
That he ne're stood on portion with her Sire;
Nor was there cause, the match was not so bad,
For with his wife enough (God knowes) he had.