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A48297	Metellus his dialogues the first part, containing a relation of a journey to Tunbridge-Wells : also a description of the Wells and place : with the fourth book of Virgil's Æneids in English / written under that name, by a gentleman of this nation, sometime gentleman commoner of Christ-Church in Oxford.	Lewkenor, John, 1657 or 8-1706.; Virgil. Aeneis. Liber 4. English.	1693 (1693)	Wing L1852; ESTC R10938	47,554	146

METELLUS HIS DIALOGUES The First PART Containing a RELATION OF A JOURNEY TO Tunbridge-Wells Also a Description of the WELLS and PLACE With the Fourth BOOK of Virgil's AENEIDS in English Written under that Name by a Gentleman of this Nation sometime Gentleman Commoner of Christ-Church in OXFORD LONDON Printed by Tho. Warren for N. Rolls in St. Paul's Church-Yard 1693. TO THE Right Honourable WILLIAM LORD BIRON BARON of RATCHDELL My Lord THis Orphan Book that can by no modish Amours recommend it self to the pleasant Men of the Time nor by Satyrizing Church or State can hope to have a Party on its side must needs be assured of many Adversaries and can be in hope but of very few Friends It flies My Lord therefore first to almost all that is left of 'em the Shadow and Name of the Ancient Heroes begs an Adoption to the vertuous Name and asks leave to make use of the Voice of Metellus not daring under a less Capacity to speak to the Vices of our Age. It hears my Lord from the Ghost of Eloquent Curio which here it has rais'd Livor edax tibi cuncta negat Luc. Phars lib. 1. which though he spake only to Caesar in his life-time his Ghost may yet with truth enough remember less Men of it now At a time when Party when Picque when Passion when Interest when but fansied Opinion may every thing to any Man deny Therefore this Orphan to decline the stroak of so wild a Passion as Envy has always appeared to the literate World falls to the ground as expert Hunters often do before the savage wild Boar and far When it turns upon ' em from the Ambition of contesting with such an Adversary as the best scarce withstand vanisheth from the sight of the World Leaves the Ghost of great Metellus the Light of Reason and the Voice of impregnable Truth in the mouths of sharp Acer and eloquent Curio to dispute Libertinage with the Age especially in the Second and Third Part where grown to more Virility it attacks the pregnant Vices of the Time and adventures to combat with the Darling of our Days Hoping from such mouths as those to speak inoffensively Truth if not to the Persons which this Book altogether declines at least to the Vices of the Times By this happy necessity this Little Book dignified my Lord and adopted to the vertuous Name of Metellus now truly ennobled addresses to your Lordship not as such Orphans and Destitutes commonly do presuming upon the Nearness of Blood its Authour has to your Lordship and that Noble Family of your Name but by a higher impulse of Nature yet as Iron to the Load-stone goes by a natural Sympathy the brave BIRONS of England have with the vertuous and glorious Metelli of Rome this Little Book by Metellus adopted to your Lordship now naturally comes and hopes that for the Palladium's sake by its brave adopting Ancestour rescued from the burning Temple Of Vesta it may find Favour and Countenance from a Family who have been as great Lovers of Minerva as Servants of Mars and who are beyond all Alliance of Blood to the glorious Metellus in Bravery of Kin. Metellus rescu'd from flames the Palladium at Rome The BIRONS had not Fate it self been a Foe and had not our Sins been our Enemies too had rescued from the worst of Confusions more than the Palladium here Non habet scientia ●nimicum praeter ignorantiam Not only our Universities from Ignorance the only Enemy Science has in the World our Churches from Profanation and Sacriledge our Monarch and Monarchy it self from Assassination our Countrey from Slavery worse than those flames if all had been as brave as faithful and of as good Lives as they Men if not the most admired certainly the most deserving Admiration of any of their time Seven brave Brothers six of them Knighted for their Bravery and Birth My Lord John Biron the Eldest Brother General Sir Richard Governour of Newark which he bravely defended Sir Robert sometime General of the Ordnance in Ireland Sir Thomas Colonel of the then Prince of Wales his own Regiment of Horse slain in the War Sir William and the other Two Field-Officers one of 'em slain at York in Defence of the Town The Eldest deservedly honoured with a Barony which he bought with his Blood All in eminent Command all eminently suffering all eminently acting for their Country and King might justly be thought as one well observ'd of 'em the bravest seven Brothers that have appeared in the World since the Maccabees days A Family deserving Eternal Memory if it were but for the brave Actions of the Eldest the then victorious Head of that Family that had so much Heart my Lord JOHN BIRON who to say nothing of those so many personal Braveries of his as that at Brill In Oxfordshire In Wiltshire and elsewhere At Round-way-down with Fifteen hundred Horse and Dragoons he not only defeated but absolutely routed a considerable Army of Horse and Foot under no unskilful General where he took Two and forty Colours all their Cannon all their Baggage and almost as many Prisoners as he had Men more might be remembred but Satis est hanc mihi nosse manum Mart. Epig. de Scaev. Yet to these brave seven Brothers we must add the brave Uncle Sir NICHOLAS BIRON Governour of West-Chester one of the Generals of the Royal Army and one of our then greatest Masters of the Military Art your Lordship 's great Uncle the Eighth good the Eighth brave Man of the same Family and the same Name at the same time surviving and with hazard of all they had fighting for their Country and defending their King Pardon therefore My Lord if this little Orphan adopted by the great Metellus from its Cradle as it were presume to Address it self to your Lordship the immediate Heir and Snccessour of so great a Name as BIRON is here since in you as in your Noble Ancestours Bravery still and Ingenuity join Qualities that sympathize so much with the Name of Metell In this First Part My Lord as in its younger Years it pretends but to divertise your Lordship with a pleasant Prelude to a more serious Discourse but in the Second and Third Part grown to more Virility it will entertain your Nobler and more Heroick Thoughts It s Authour being Ambitious but to be Esteemed Your Lordship 's Most faithful humble Servant and affectionate Kinsman J. L. A CHARACTER OF THE PERSONS Who speak in these DIALOGUES METELLVS A Lover of VERTVE and eminently Learned ACER A Divine of a sharp Wit and eloquent CVRIO A Civilian and an eloquent Man AESCVLAPE A Learned Physician and good Companion but inclined to Epicurus his Opinions LAELIVS A witty young Gentleman but a Deist Or take their Characters thus Deserving of that Name the great Metell In Vertue and in Learning does excell Eloquent Curio pleads and does commend Sharp Acer does both teach and