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The epigrams of P. Virgilius Maro, and others With the praises of him and his workes. Also his epitaphs composed by diuers illustrious persons. And lastly, the arguments of his workes. Englished by I.P. louer of learning.
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Penkethman, John.; Virgil, attributed name.
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1624
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STC 24825; ESTC S119271
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all 6 In praise of the Aeneid By Ouid. WAndring Aeneas lofty Romes beginning No worke hath Italy more glory winning 7 Of Virgils want on writing By Ouid to Augustus YEt happy he whose Muse thy Aeneid bred Armes and a man brought to a Tyrian bed Yea in verse Bucolicke before but yong Phyllis and Amarillys loues he sung 8 Of Virgil. By Christodorus ANd whom for Eloquence Ausonia chose Her fauourite sweet Swan-like Maro flourisht Whom with renowne at Rome where Tyber flowes His country as another Homer nourisht 9 Vpon Virgil and his workes By Sextus Propertius in his 2. Booke Elegy 24. PHoebus-fenc'd Actium Virgd it delights That he could sing with Caesars nauall fights Who with Aeneas conflicts now restores The citie ruin'd on Lauinian shores Ye Greeke and Latine writers backwards stand Some greater worke then th'lliad is in hand Thou by Galesus where Pines shading breed Thyrsis and Daphnis singst with slender Reed And how Ten apples could a Maid infect And from the printed Teat a Kid select He 's blest that buyes loue at so deare a Rate Though Tityrus doe sing to her ingrate Blest Corydon that tempts Alexis chaste The Husbandman his Lords delights to taste Though wearied with his pipe to rest he layes him The gentle Hamadryades doe praise him The precepts of old Hesiod thou dost sing What field yeelds corne what vallyes grapes doe bring As Phoebus if the learned Lute he take And play thereon such Musicke thou dost make Here may I conclude his praises with two lines vpon his Georgickes written by our most witty and famous Epigrammatist Mr. Iohn Owen late Fellow of New-Colledge in Oxford deceased Thus Englished TRim verses of Grounds Tillage Maro writ Who thereby tills the Readers fields and wit Epitaphs vpon Virgil. By diuers illustrious persons 1 Palladius HEre am I couer'd whose late rusticke pen Through woods and fields came to the armes of men 2 Asclepiades I Maro sung of Mars a man sheepe corne Buried in Naples but in Mantua borne 3 Eusebius Here Virgil lies that pastures did reherse Good husbandry and Troian warres in verse 4 Pompelianus The Poet that sung battailes fields and sheepe Dy'd in Calabria and here lies asleepe 5 Maximianus Virgil by Verse of cattell grounds and warres Hath merited fame lasting like the starres 6 Vitalis My verses woods grounds warres my place of birth Mantua name Virgil my graue Naples earth 7 Basilius Vnder this heape the Poet Maro lies That woods fields warres in verses beautifies 8 Asmodianus The Shepheards Poet here vntimely prest Country and combats I in verse exprest 9 Vouianus Here lies wit-honour'd Maro whose Muse came From woods to fields from fields to Mars his game 10 Eugenius Precepts I writ of Pasturage and tyllage Then Armies vntill Death of me made pillage 11 Iulianus Here sleepeth Virgil that in sweetest measures Vtter'd Pan Ceres and Bellona's pleasures 12 Hilasius Shepheards and Plowmens cunning I that taught And set forth fights this Tombe am vnder brought The same Authour vpon Virgils picture Maro thy Picture foyles the fatall dart Whom Nature tooke we see restor'd by Art Another by the same Authour So great a Poet feeles no hurt by death Whose Verses honour keepes him still in breath Virgil or another in his name Me Mantua Brunduse Naples bore tooke holds Whose volume pastures plow-lands armes infolds Vpon his Daphnis By an vncertaine Authour In Daphnis wailing for thy Flaccus fate With Gods learn'd Maro thou mak'st him a mate By an vncertaine Authour I Shepheard Plowman Horseman stout did Pasture my Goats with leaues till my grounds with spade out-stand my enemies with hand Now seeing I haue before inserted an Epigram made by M. Iohn Owen giue me leaue in this place to annex his owne Epitaph which is ingrauen in a plate of Brasse and fixed vnder his monumentall Image formed and erected by the most exquisite Artist M. Epiphanius Euesham withinthe Cathedrall Church of Saint Paul thus Englished SMall was thy state and stature which doe claime Small statue through great lands thy small Booke flies But small thine honour is not nor thy fame For greater wit then thine the world denies Whom a small house a great Church shelter giues A Poet when he dies then truly liues The Arguments of Virgils workes viz. 1. Monostichs of all his workes He sings in sundry strifes the Shepheards Muse Grounds tillage learnedly he shewes in measures Teacheth to graft and plant without abuse Beasts nurture next and Pales with her treasures Bees ordring then with honies gifts and pleasures To Carthage comes Aeneas wandring farre Reports the manner of the Troian warre The same Reporter shewes his proper courses Death on her selfe loue-burnt Eliza forces His fathers graue with sports Aeneas graces Then Ghosts he visits and infernall places He enters Latium and th' Italian bounds Here Turnus from his roofe warre-thundring sounds A mother and young men her sonne lament To death is Lausus and his father sent Reneng'd Camilla by a speare extinct With spirts infernall Daunus sonne is linkt 2 Tetrastichs of his 4. Bookes of Georgickes WHat man in Bucolicks and read how well In tillage and in vines trees plants heards bees Troyes Poet was Tetrastichs here shall tell Each bookes contents who viewes my writing sees 1 What makes Corne thriue he shewes what wether 's meet For Husbandmen the fields with ploughes to greet How casting seeds he should manure the soyle To reape much profit for his cost and toyle 2 Earths tillage hitherto and season-skill Now fings he vine-leaues and the virent hill What places Bacchus and the vineyard sute And th' Oliue branch that beares the chiefest fruite 3 Pales and Shepheards through the world renowu'd Ordring of cattell and grasse clothed ground What soile to beasts or lambes we should assigne All these our Poet shewes in verse diuine 4 Then Realmes of dew-bred hony sweetly smelling Bees bred in Hybla and their waxen dwelling What flowres they sucke with swarme collecting drifts He shewes and their moist combe celestiall gifts 3. Monostichs of his 12. Bookes of Aeneids I Th' first Aeneas comes to th' Lybian Queene i th' second be Troyes warres and ruine seene The third his wandring shewes and buried sire The fourth Eliza vext with Cupids fire Games in the fifth and burning Ships appeare Hell in the sixth is search'd and Spirits there To th' destin'd land the seuenth Aeneas brings Warres preparation th' eighth ' gainst foemen fings They fight i th' ninth whose Captaine is remote Mezentius flies i th' tenth to Charons boate i th' last but one hard Mars a virgin spild i th' last by armes diuine is Turnus kild 4. Pentestichs of the same 1 AT Iuno's suite winds Aeole setting free To Affricke driues the Troians wandring fleet Ioues words to Venus grieu'd a comfort be Dido in Carthoge doth Aeneas meet Cupid Iulus like her heart doth greet 2 Aeneas mou'd warres fortune doth relate The horse how guilefull Greekes with Sinon were The citie ruin'd