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THE GEORGICS OF HESIOD.

"The Georgicks of Hesiod, by George Chapman ; translated elaborately out of the Greek Containing Doctrine of Husbandrie, Moralitie, and Pietie; with a perpetuall Calendar of Good and Bad Daies; not superstitious, but necessarie (as farre as naturall Causes compell) for all Men to obserue, and difference in following their affaires.

"Nec caret vmbra Deo.

"London, printed by H. L. for Miles Partrich, and are to be solde at his Shop neare Saint Dunstans Church in Fleetstreet. 1618."

The Georgics of Hesiod.

[1618.]

THE MOST NOBLE COMBINER OF LEARNING AND HONOUR,

SIR FRANCIS BACON, KNIGHT,

LORD HIGH CHANCELLOR OF ENGLAND, ETC.

TIENT wisdom being so worthily eternized by the now-renewed instance of it in your dship; and this ancient Author, one of the most authentic for all wisdom crowned justice and piety; to what sea owe these poor streams their tribute, but to your dship's ocean? The rather, since others of the like antiquity, in my Translation of mer, teach these their way, and add comfort to their courses, by having received it cheerful countenance and approbation from your Lordship's most grave and oured predecessor.

All judgments of this season (savouring anything the truth) preferring, to the dom of all other nations, these most wise, learned, and circularly-spoken Grecians. ording to that of the poet :

Graiis ingenium, Graiis dedit ore rotundo
Musa loqui.

why may not this Roman eulogy of the Graians extend in praiseful intention (by of prophetic poesy) to Gray's-Inn wits and orators? Or if the allusion (or petition the principle) beg with too broad a licence in the general; yet serious truth, for the ticular, may most worthily apply it to your Lordship's truly Greek inspiration, and solutely Attic elocution. Whose all-acknowledged faculty hath banished flattery rein even from the Court; much more from my country and more-than-upland iplicity. Nor were those Greeks so circular in their elegant utterance, but their ard judgments and learnings were as round and solid; their solidity proved in their nity; and their eternity propagated by love of all virtue and integrity;—that love ng the only parent and argument of all truth, in any wisdom or learning; without ich all is sophisticate and adulterate, howsoever painted and splinted with degrees languages. Your Lordship's Advancement of Learning, then, well showing ar love to it, and in it, being true to all true goodness, your learning, strengthening it love, must needs be solid and eternal. This toTwp pws, therefore, expressed in Author, is used here as if prophesied by him then, now to take life in your Lordip, whose life is chief soul and essence to all knowledge and virtue; so few there are at live now combining honour and learning. This time resembling the terrible time hereof this poet prophesied ; to which he desired he might not live, since not a Grace puld then smile on any pious or worthy; all greatness much more gracing impostors

* Vir verè (seu clarè) sciens; aut illustris Judex, vel procul videns Arbiter, quia eos acutos Su, seu gnaros esse oporteat rei de quâ agitur.

VOL. II.

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