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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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If any aske me now, whose booke I am,
I cannot answere without signes of shame;
For he that owns mee very often saith,
I am the worst of all the bookes he hath,
And which more grieues me, calls me triuiall rymes,
Th'vntimely issue of his idle times.