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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88518	Daphnis and Chloe. A most sweet, and pleasant pastorall romance for young ladies. / By Geo: Thornley, Gent.; Daphnis and Chloe. English	Longus.; Thornley, George, b. 1614.; Cross, Thomas, fl. 1632-1682, engraver.	1657 (1657)	Wing L3003; Thomason E1652_3; ESTC R202777	67,756	245

Daphnis Chloe Printed for John Garfeild 1657. Cross facit Daphnis and Chloe A Most Sweet and Pleasant Pastorall ROMANCE for Young Ladies By Geo Thornley Gent. Humili Casâ nihil antiquius nihil nobilius Sen. Philos. The Printing Press for Pictures London Printed for John Garfeild at the Sign of the Rolling-Presse for Pictures near the Royal-Exchange in Cornhill over against Popes-Head-Alley 1657. To young Beauties THis little pleasant Laundschip of Love by its own destiny and mine belongs most properly to your fair eyes and hands and happier laps And them who would not lay his legge over a book although that sometimes has been the complaint of a Schollar's solitude But hold There is nothing here to that purpose but what Lycaenium taught her Schollar in the Wood Here Cupid is a Shepherd Pan a Souldier Chloe a maid of whom Love would write a storie a Youth the Darling of the Nymphs Love catcht robbing an Orchard and his own Herald from a Myrtle Grove Here are Pipes that drown Pirats others reduceing a Captive maid pastorall Festivalls and Games The ceremonies customes and manners of the ancient Greekes with a delightfull interspersion of their old and sweet Tales And in short nothing to vex you unlesse perchance in your own conscience Chloe knew well enough though the Author makes her simple what and where her Fancie was and Daphnis too needed not Lycaenium's Lanthorn to a plakit or to follow Will with the wispe But hark you Lady and I will tell you a storie one I had at a Tavern vesper a Dialogue from a Summer shade A boy and a Girle were gott thither together The boy opened his shop and drew out all a yong beginner had to show The Girle askt him what it was The boy said It was his purse the Girle lookt upon her selfe And if that be thy purse Then quoth she my purse is cutt And these are parallells to the simple ruralls here But what say you to that Tradition of the Hebrewes That a very wise man knew not the way of a Serpent upon a Rock nor of a yong man with a maid And those that say Nicaula Sabaea had like to have puzzled him quite with Boyes and Girles in the same dresse but that he made them wash before him and found out as you do all the Boyes by a stronger kind of rubbing But besides It is so like your owne either simplicitie or Art you cannot but approve it here You do not know what we meane when we speak as plain as day And now you have an Author too which you never had before to prove you do not counterfeit The sophist in his third book a man of great Authoritie a Magistrate among the maids For this I have deserved a kisse of every sweet ingenious Girle and if I find that this book lyes nearer to you then the other Romances do those of the affected twirling tongue I shall trie either to find or ideate somewhat for you that for its various invention intertexture and the style shall be composed examin'd and sent to your hands by the test of Musick beautie Pleasure and Love Your loving Servant Geo. Thornley To the Criticall Reader THe Pastorals of Longus Sophista to my knowledge have bin signed with the Youthful Emeralds of some of our own most excellent sparky astrall Wits But Those have kept within their own Ingenious quiet Cortina and have not come abroad by their Pens and therefore I shall give you Testimonies to the Drama in hand as from the Laureats of other Countreys Angelus Politian an Eloquent Italian in his Books of Miscellanies Quatuor sayes he extant Graecè nimis quàm Libelli elegantes Poemenic●n Titulo There are extant in the Greek four very spruce Books under the Title of Poemenica and I am sure he meant These for That 's the Title to the Four and there are no other Extant Other Erotic Writers indeed there are Aristinaetus Achilles Tatius Heliodorus Eustathius or Eumathius as others call him but not under that Title Longi liber lectu Dignissimus and again Dulcissimus ac S●avissimus Scriptor is the language Maretus gives him Longus his Book is very well worth the reading A most sweet and pleasant Writer And now for him speaks the Tripos of the World so the Criticks call their Joseph Staliger and indeed in my Judgment he has hit him to a hair Auctor est Amaenissimus et Character eò melior quo Simplictor He is an Author pleasant as the Spring pleasant as Groves Launs Hills Vales Eccho's soft winds and his style or Character so much the better by how much the more Simple and rurall Heinsius too gives him the Venus Longo Sophist â Nil Venustius And besides These the Patriarch Photias very well might be cited hither too to the Assertion of the Book where he speaks of the Greek Erotic Writers though but to the generall and gives a breviary of Antonius Diogenes his book Of the Wonderful Incredible Things beyond Thule and tells us that That book was the Fountain of all Writings of this kind but I had rather if an Ingenuous man when he has satisfied himself may speak what he thinks of his own Work close up this discourse with our Authors own words {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} I drew up these four Books A Perpetuall Oblation to Love An Everlasting Anathema Sacred to Pan and the Nymphs and A Delightfull Possession even for all But here comes a Snapdragon Objection from a Poetaster in the way and he would spoil our Poetry as Prophetasters do Theologie These Books sayes he are handsome in the Greek but in our Saxon make the best it cannot be Our Pastorall Doricque Sir has shewn it self in verse and prose fine as Arcadian Holy-dayes But there is another still To imagine Children exposed the very basis of the book is not at all for this Age an Age wiser far then that It may be so For Aesculapius had alwayes a great beard though his Father Apollo never had any Did you never leave any your self to Saint Antholin's or Greggs Then read the Stories of the East and South and you shall find many Children both exposed and Fortunate This enough to face the Cuffs of this Book and make me laugh in my sleeve if any man require more Yours to serve you Geo Thornley Upon the most Ancient and Elegant Poëm of Daphnis and Chlcë accurately and deliciously rendred by his Learned Friend Mr. George Thornly To the READER AS flesh and Fish and Plants thy Body feed Gentle sweet Reader so thy Mind has need With Speakings Writings Printings to be fed And fresh-suggested Notions nourished And as our Rabbies of severest brow Not only food to keep thee live allow But to delight thee many daintie dishes Of Flesh and Fruit of Pasterall and Fishes By Art compos'd So that thou have t is fit Custards Tarts Puf-pasts Florentines of wit For to refresh the Palate of thy mind And to divert