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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A58871	Amaryllis to Tityrus being the first heroick harangue of the excellent pen of Monsieur Scvdery, a witty and pleasant novel / Englished by a person of honour.	Scudéry, Madeleine de, 1607-1701.; Person of honour.	1681 (1681)	Wing S2143; ESTC R10262	26,814	97

as well as feigned examples for usually the Historical part of Tragedy is authentick And since I have begun to say somewhat of this kind of Poetry I can't without infinite ingratitude to the Memory of those excellent persons omit the first Famous Masters in 't of our Nation Venerable Shakespear and the great Ben Johnson I have had a particular kindness always for most of Sakespear's Tragedies and for many of his Comedies and I can't but say that I can never enough admire his Stile considering the time he writ in and the great alteration that has been in the Refineing of our Language since for he has expressed himself so very well in 't that 't is generally approv'd of still and for maintaining of the Characters of the persons design'd I think none ever exceeded him I shall say no more of Johnson but that his Catiline Sejanus and Alchymist will stand as eternal Monuments of his excellent abilities this way but yet I confess I have a greater inclination for the incomparable of their time Beavmont and Fletcher and chiefly of all theirs for the Maid's Tragedy King and no King the Faithful Shepherdess and Philaster notwithstanding some faults found in them Philip Messenger had also the happiness to be the Author of some good Plays Sir John Suckling's Aglaura Sir John Denham's Sophie are very well Writ Sir William Davenant's and Sir Robert Howard's Plays are generally good but I am full of the great obligation we all owe that love this innocent diversion to my Lord Orrory and to Mr. Dryden for those they have favour'd us and adorn'd this Age with for they have both equaled in my opinion the very best Authors in their's most excellent And Mr. Dryden has much exceeded any of his Predecessors in the number of good Plays And 't is well for his repose that I have bid adeiu to the Muses and humor of Verse or else I should have been troublesome unto him upon this occasion In telling him how very fond I am of his Plays and how much they ought to be celebrated And tho' Mr. Lee who I must name for Sophonisba's sake and some other persons have Writ divers Good ones Yet Mr. Dryden will be allowed to keep the Garland without competitors I think both for the Excellency and number of good Plays And I foresee without the assistance of Astrology or Spirit of Prophecy that his Dramatick Poetry will be always the Sun in that Firmament and himself the most illustrious Poet of this Nation in that kind Artemisia to Isocrates THE FIRST HARANGUE OF Monsieur de Scuderie's First Volume of HEROICK HARANGUES THE ARGUMENT After Artemisia had imployed the most expert Architects of her time to Build that stately Tombe which was since one of the seven wonders of the World the love that she had for her dear Mausolus being not fully satisfied She then made to come from Greece Isocrates and Theopompus the most celebrated Orators of Antiquity and by a Liberality truly Royal she obliged these great men to make use of all their Eloquence in favour of the King her Husband to externize his memory It was then to demand this kindness that this Fair disconsolate Lady spake to 'em in this manner when the excess of her love had made her forget that she spake to the Famous Isocrates Artemisia to Isocrates IT is from you O Illustrious Orator that I expect the immortality of Mausolus it is in you to give life to the Statue that I have erected to him it is in you to make him a monument which the Revolution of time can never destroy and which will eternize it for ever think not that I believe that either time or fortune respect Gold Marble Jasper Porphyry or Oriental Alablaster which I have imployed to build this superb structure No I know that these three hundred Columns of whom all the Orders are observed with care and the Bases are so well fixt and the Chapiters are so magnificent and whereof the workmanship exceeds the materials shall be one day but pitiful ruins and at last reduced to little or nothing and all the imbossed Images which make and adorne the four fronts of this Sepulchre shall be successively defaced by the very injury of the season and not without difficulty hereafter shall there be some imperfect Figures perceived of all that which we do admire at this day These obelisks who seem to defie the Tempests shall be perhaps struck with Lightning and by it reduced to Ashes these Vases smoaking with incense these extinguisht Flamboes these Trophies of Armes and all the ornaments whereof Architecture is capable cannot hinder the distruction of this Work In fine Isocrates when I have employed all my Treasures on 't when by the skilful hands of Scopus of Brixis of Timothus and of Lochares I have put it into an Estate to pass for one of the marvails of the World if after all that some one do not take care to conserve it in memory by his writings the Statues of Gold that I have erected the Marble Jasper Porphyry Alablaster the Columns the Images the Obelisks the Vases the Flamboes and all the ornaments of Architecture which appear in this work hinder not I say that Mausolus his Tombe his Architects his Sculptures and Artemisia her self be buried in oblivion and be as unknown to the ages afar off as if they had never been It is then in you Isocrates it is then in you O Theopompus to give this edifice its most solid foundation It is in you to animate these Marbles by magnificent inscriptions it is in you to resuscitate Mausolus It is in you to make me live eternally altho I feel that I shall dye very soon I demand not of you Isocrates that you give me the praises of Helen or the Eulogy of Busires tho' perhaps they have somtimes had their Penegyricks I shall give you a more easie and a more illustrious Theam the vertues of Mausolus and the conjugal affection of Artemisia this is a more noble subject than the inhumanity of Busires and the Lightness of Helen your Eloquence shall have no crimes to disguise All the Artifices that Rhetorick teaches to impose deceits and render 'em like truth shall not serve you but to persuade verity and without borrowing any thing of the Sophists it shall suffice that you write as an Orator as a Philosopher and as an Historian altogether Eloquence that Gift that the Gods have granted to men as a Ray of their own divinity ought never to be imployed but to protect the innocent or to eternize vertue those who made a Godess of Persuasion never designed to render her a slave to the capricio's of men and they knew without doubt better than I that Eloquence is a gift of Heaven that they ought never to profane the power that she hath either of exciting or appeasing the most violent passions to move the hearts of the most perverse to persuade the most incredulous to force