Lvcans Pharsalia Containing The Ciuill Warres betweene Caesar and Pompey. Written In Latine Heroicall Verse by M. Annaevs Lvcanus. Translated into English verse by Sir Arthur Gorges ... Whereunto is annexed the life of the Authour, collected out of diuers Authors |
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To the Translator.
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To the Translator.
Homer and Maro, that did Poetize,As much in matter, as in kinde of stile,
Did thereby dimme the glorious deeds the while
Of them, whose acts they meant to memorize.
So did not Lvcan, who (in other guize)
The gests of two great Worthies did compile;
S'deining their high atchieuements to defile,
Or inter-lace with idle vanities.
Therefore how farre from Fable Truth is set,
So farre aboue all feigners Lvcan shines;
While in his Muse both faculties are met,
That with sweet Number beauteous Truth combines.
And we to thee in endlesse debt must dwell
For making Lucan speake our tongue so well.
S. S.
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