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1567

and now into English, &c. Alfo the Apothegmes, &c. by James Sandford. Lond. 12mo.

EUNA PIUS SARDIANUS*.

The Lyves of Philofophers and Orators, from the Greek of Eunapius, 4to.

ACHILLES TATIUS.

1579

The most delectable and pleafant Hift. of Clitophon and Leucippe, from the Greek of Achilles Statius, &c. by W. B. 4to

M. ANTONINU ST.

1597†

The Golden Boke of Marcus Aurelius, Emperour and eloquent Orator, 12mo. Lond.

1553 Tranflated out of Fr. into Eng. by Sir John Bourchier, Kt.

&c. &c.

Other editions of this are in 1534, 1535, 2536, 1537, 1559. 1586, 1588.

DIONYSIUS.

Dionyfius's Defcription of the Worlde. Englyfhed by Tho. Twine, 8vo. Lond.

EUCLI D.

1572

Euclid's Elements of Geometry, tranfl. into Eng. by Rich. Candifh, who flourished, A. D.

1556

*Thus entered in the books of the Stationer's company. "Richard Jones. The Lives of divers excellente Orators and Philofophers written in Greeke by Enapius of the city of Sardis in Lydia, and tranflated into Englithe by

This book was entered in the fame year by Thomas Creede, on the books of the Stationers' company.

This book is only introduced, that an opportunity may be obtained of excluding it from any future catalogue of tranflated claffics. It was a fraud of Guevara's, but not undetected; for Chapman, in his Gentleman Usher, 1602, fpeaks of the book as Guevara's own. "If there be not more choice words in that letter, than in any three of Guevara's Golden Epifiles, I am a very afs." See his article in Bayle. Our countryman Elyott did fomewhat of the fame kind. He pretended to tranflate the Actes and Sentences notable, of the Emperor Alexander Severus, (from the Greek of Encolpius. See Fabricius' and Tanner's Bibliothec, &c.

Euclid's

Euclid's Elements, Pref. by John Dee. Lond.

HIPPOCRATE S.

1570

The Aphorifmes of Hippocrates, redacted into a certaine Order, and tranflated by Humfrie Llhyd, 8vo. 1585

GALEN.

Galen's Two Books of Elements, tranflated into Engl. by J. Jones, 4to. Lond.

1574

Certaine Workes of Galen, englyfhed by Tho. Gale, 4to.

HELIODORUS.

1586

The Beginning of Ethiopical History in Engl. Hexameters, by Abrah. Fraunce, 8vo. Lond.

1591

Heliodorus's Ethiopic Hift. tranfl. by Tho. Underdown, B. L. 4to. Lond.

VIRGI L.

1577 and 1587

The Boke of Eneydos, &c. by Caxton, fol. Lond. profe

1490 The thirteen Bukes of Eneados in Scottish Metir, by Gawain Douglas, 4to. Lond.

1553 Certain bookes of Virgile's neist turned into English Metir, by the right honourable Lorde, Henry Earle of Surrey, 4to. Lond.

1557

The firft feven Bookes of the Encidos, by Phaer. Lond. 4to. B. L.

This Tranflation is in rhime of fourteen fyllables.

1558

The nyne firft Bookes, &c. by Phaer, 4to. Lond.
The thirteene Bookes of Eneidos, by Phaer and Twyne,

1562

4to. Lond.

1584, 1596, 1607, &c. The first foure Bookes of Virgil's neis, tranflated into

A tranflation of the fame book is likewife entered at Statione's hall 1602, and again twice in 1604, for different printers.

This is a tranilation of the fecond and fourth books into blank verfe, and is perhaps the oldest fpecimen of that metre in the Englih language.

Among the entries in the books of the Stationer's company, is the following. "Tho. Creede.] Virgil's Encidos in Englishe verie, 1595. Again in 1600. Again his Bucolics and Georgies in the fame year.

Engl.

Engl. heroic Verfe, by Richard Stanyhurft, &c. 12mo.

Lond.

1583 The Bucolickes of Publius Virgilius Maro, &c. by Abraham Fleming, drawn into plaine and familiar Englyíle, Verfe for Verfe, 4to. B. L.

1575

Virgil's Eclogues and Georgicks, tranflated into blank Verfe, by the fame Author, Lond. 1589 The Lamentation of Corydon for the Love of Alexis, Veríe for Verfe, out of Latine.

This is tranflated into English Hexameters, and printed at the end of the Countee of Pembroke's Ivychurch 1591. By Abraham Fraunce.

Virgil's Culex paraphrafed, by Spenfer. See his works.

HORAC E.

Two Bookes of Horace his Satyres Englyfhed, accordyng to the Prefcription of Saint Hierome, 4to. B. L. Lond.

1566

Horace his Arte of Poetrie, Piftles † and Satyrs Englished, by Tho. Drant, 4to. Lond.

Weftm. fol.

OVID.

1567

The fifteene Bookes of Metamorphofeos. In which ben contaynid the Fables of Ovid, by William Caxton, 1480 The four first Books of Ovid, tranfl. from the Latin into English Meetre, by Arthur Golding, Gent. 4to. B. L. Lond.

1565

The fifteene Bookes of P. Ovidius Nafo, &c. by Arthur Golding, 4to. Bl. L. Lond.

1576

Another in 1575 according to Ames, and another earlier than either, in 1567, if we may believe the Date of the Dedica

tion.

[A former Edition was in 1572, in Rawlinson's catal.] Do. 1587. Do. 1612. The pleasant Fable of Hermaphroditus and Salmacis. 8vo.

Lond.

1565

The copy which I have feen, was in 4to, printed at Leiden, and was entered as fuch on the books of the Stationers on the 24th of January, 1582.

There is an entry at Stationer's hall of the Epistles of Horace in 1591.

The

1560

The Fable of Ovid treating of Narciffus, tranfl. out of Latin into Eng. Mytre, with a Moral ther unto very plefante to rede, 4to. Lond. The Heroycall Epiftles, &c. fet out and tranflated by Geo. 7 urbervile, Gent. &c. B. L. 4to. Lond*. 1597, 1569, and 1600 The three firft Bookes of Ovid de Triftibus, tranfl. into English, by Tho. Churchyard, 4to. Lond. 1580 + Ovid his Invective against Ibis, tranilated into Eng. Meeter, &c. 12mo. Lond.

And 157, by Tho. Underwood.

1569 I

Certaine of Ovid's Elegics by C. Marlow §. 12mo. At Mid

dleburgh no date. All Ovid's Elegies, three Bookes. By C. M. At Middleburgh. 12mo. Somewhat larger than the preceding edition. Salmacis and Hermaphroditus, by Fra. Beaumont, 4to.

1602

He likewife tranflated a Part of the Remedy of Love. There was another Tranflation of the whole, by Sir Tho. Overbury, 8vo. without date

PLAUTUS.

Menæchmi, by W. W. Lond. ¶

MARTIAL.

1595

Flowers of Epigrams (from Martial particularly) by Tim. Kendall, 8vo **,

1577

Among the Stationers' entries I find in 594, "A booke entitled Oenone and Paris, wherein is defcribed the extremity of love, &c." This may be a tranflation from Ovid.

This book was enter'd at Stationers' hall by Tho. Eafte, July 1, 1577, and by Thomas Orwin in 1591.

Among the entries in the books of the Stationers' company is the following. Henry Bynneman] July 1, 1577, Ovid's Invective against Ibis. Bought of Tho. Eafte.

§ In the forty-first of Q. Eliz. thefe tranflations from Ovid were commanded by the archbishop of Canterbury and the bishop of London, to be burnt at Stationers' hall.

On the books of the Stationers' company, Dec. 23, 1599, is entered "Ovidius Nafo his Remedy of Love." Again, in the fame year," Ovydes Epiftles in Englythe," and "Övydes Metamorphofis in Englyfhe."

This piece was enter'd at Stationers' hall June 10th 1594. In 1520, viz, the 11th year of Hen. VIII. it appears from Holinfhed, that a comedy of Plautus was played before the king. **Entered at Stationers' hall Feb. 1576.

TE

TERENCE.

Terens in Englyfh, or the tranflacyon out of Latin into Englyfh of the first comedy of Tyrens callyd Andria, Suppofed to be printed by J. Raftell*.

Andria,

*As the following metrical introduction to this play, relates chiefly to the improvements at that time fuppofed to have been made in the English language, I could not prevail on myfelf to fupprefs it.

The Poct.

The famous renown through the worlde is fprong
Of poetys ornate that usyd to indyte

Of dyvers matters in theyr moder tong
Some toke uppon them tranflacions to wryte
Some to compile bokys for theyr delyte.
But in our English tong for to fpeke playn
I rede but of few have take any gret payn,
Except mafter Gowre which furft began
And of moralite wrote ryght craftely
Than maiter Chaucer that excellent inan
Which wrote as compendious as clygantly
As in any other tong ever dyd any
Ludgate alfo which adournyd our tong
Whofe noble famys through the world be fprong.
By these men our tong is amplyfyed fo
That we therin now tranflate as well may
As in eny other tongis other can do

Yet the Greke tong and Laten dyvers men fay
Have many wordy's can not be Engly hid this day
So lyke wyfe in Englyfh many wordys do habound
That no Greke nor Laten for them can be found,
And the caufe that our tong is fo plenteoufe now
For we kepe our Englyfh contynually
And of other tongis many wordis we borow
Which now for Englyth we ute and occupy
Thefe thingis have gyven corage greily
To dyvers and fpecyally now of late
To them that this comedy have tranflate.
Which all difcrete men now do befech
And fpecyally lernyd men to take no dyfdayn
Though this be compylyd in our vulgare fpech
Yet lernyng thereby tome men may attayn
For they that in this comedy have take payn

Pray

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