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Hugo Grotius His Sophompaneas, or Ioseph

A Tragedy

Goldsmith, Francis (1613-1655)

HUGO GROTIUS HIS Sophompaneas,

TO THE Right Honourable, Henry, Lord Marquess of Dorchester, Earl of Kingston, Viscount Newark, Lord Pierrepont, &c.

The Preface.

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Vossius in Addend. l.2. Institut. Poetic.

To his own old dear Francis Goldsmith, Esq;

Somnium Dramaticum Synesii Iunioris, Cognomento Chirosophi.

On the Subject, Joseph. The Poet, Hugo Grotius. The Translator, F. Goldsmith.

To his honoured Friend, Francis Goldsmith, Esq; Upon his Translation of, &c.

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The Translators Prologue.

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TO THE Right Honourable, Henry, Lord Marquess of Dorchester, Earl of Kingston, Viscount Newark, Lord Pierrepont, &c.

My Lord,

Not any merit of mine hath emboldned mee to set forth this piece with (so resplendent a Frontispiece) your Name; but a duty of doing one of our best modern Latin Poets that full right, which my pen otherwise comes short of. Bee pleased likewise, that Sophompaneas, a divinely inspir'd Prophet, and Royall favourite, famous in holy Writ (which your own eminent virtues will most like) for wisdome and chastity, may find a favourable entertainment with your Lordship. I am not ignorant

upon how great disadvantage anything of this kind is presented unto your Lordship, after Iuvenal by Sir Robert Stapylton. Neither have I, though I much more need it, the warrant of your Lordships command, which might beg pardon for my disabilities and errataes: Yet this free-will & cheaper offering may not be unacceptable to your most noble goodnesse, and that this Coat of Ioseph is not so sullied with my handling, but that it may bee known, is the confidence and ambition of

Your Lordships most humble Servant, Francis Goldsmith.