AN ANAGRAM OF THE NAME OF OUR DREAD PRINCE, MY MOST GRACIOUS THE SACRED FOUNTAIN OF PRINCES, SOLE EMPRESS OF BEAUTY AND VIRTUE, ANNE, QUEEN OF ENGLAND, &c. WITH whatsoever honour we adorn bough. If it be honour then to join you both They know not virtue then, that know not what The virtue of defending virtue is; It comprehends the guard of all your State, And joins your greatness to as great a bliss. To de- Shield virtue and advance her then, great fend Both from foul death and age's ugly moth, Your Majesty's in all subjection most humbly consecrate, GEO. CHAPMAN. "Petrarchs Seven Penitentiall Psalms, Paraphrastically translated: with other Philos phicall Poems, and a Hymne to Christ upon the Crosse. Written by George Chapman. "Arri. Epict. "Progressus sum in medium, & pacem At mihi quod victo detruxerit inuida turba, "London, Imprinted for Matthew Selman, dwelling in Fleete-Streete neare Chancerie lane, rón Petrarch's Seven Penitential [1612.] ΤΟ HE RIGHT WORTHILY HONOURED, GRAVE, AND INGENUOUS FAVOURER OF ALL VIRTUE, SIR EDW. PHILLIPS, KNIGHT, MASTER OF THE ROLLS, ETC. SIR,-Though the name of a poem bears too light and vain a character in his foread, either to answer my most affectionate desire to do you honour, or deserve your acstance; yet since the subject and matter is grave and sacred enough (how rudely sor I have endeavoured to give it grace and elocution), I presumed to prefer to your ptiest leisure of reading, this poor dedication, in the substance and soul of whose mane and divine object, the most wise and religious that ever writ to these purposes, ave (for so much as this little contains) imitated and celebrated, good life, and the e feeling of our human birth and Being, being the end of it all: and (as I doubt not ar judicial and noble apprehension will confess) the chief end of whatsoever else, in authority and principality. Notwithstanding, either for the slenderness of the lume, or harshness of the matter, I have not dared to submit it (as the rest of my ak labours) to my most gracious and sacred patron, the Prince; reserving my thrice mble duty to his highness, for some much greater labours, to which it hath pleased And thus most truly thankful for all your right free and honour n to command me. le favours, I humbly and ever rest, The most unfeigned and constant observer of you and yours, |