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Other editions of this are in 1534, 1535, 1536, 1537, 1559, 1586, 1588.

DIONYSIUS.

Dionysius's Description of the Worlde. Englyshed by Tho. Twyne, 8vo. Lond.

EUCLID.

1572

Euclid's Elements of Geometry, transl. into Engl. by Rich. Candish who flourished, A. D. 1556 Euclid's Elements, Pref. by John Dee, Lond. 1570

HIPPOCRATES.

The Aphorismes of Hippocrates, redacted into a
certaine Order, and translated by Humfrie
Llhuyd, 8vo.
See Granger's Biographical History, Vol. I. p. 270.

GALEN.

1585

1574

Galen's Two Books of Elements, translated into
Engl. by J. Jones, 4to. Lond.
Certayne Workes of Galen, englyshed by Tho.
Gale, 4to.

HELIODORUS.

1586

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

1591? Heliodorus's Æthiopic Hist. transl. by Tho. Underdown, B. L. 4to. Lond. 1577 and 1587

A translation of the same book is likewise entered at Stationers' Hall, 1602, and again twice in 1604, for different printers.

SOP.

t

Esop's Fables in true Orthography, with Grammar notes, translated out of the Latin by William Bullaker, B. L. 8vo.

1585

VIRGIL.

8

1490

1553

The Boke of Eneydos, &c. by Caxton, fol. Lond.
prose
The thirteen Bukes of Eneados in Scottish Metir,
by Gawin Douglas, 4to. Lond.
Certaine Bookes of Virgiles Eneis turned into
English Metir, by the right honourable Lorde,
Henry Earle of Surrey, 4to. Lond.
The first seven Bookes of the Eneidos, by Phaer,
Lond. 4to. B. L.
This Translation is in rhyme of fourteen syllables.
The nine first Bookes, &c. by Phaer, 4to. Lond.

9

1557

1558

1562

This is a translation of the second and fourth books into blank verse, and is perhaps the oldest specimen of that metre in the English language.

9 The following "Epytaphe of Maister Thomas Phayre," is found in a very scarce book entitled "Eglogs, Epytaphes, and Sonettes. Newly written by Barnabe Googe, 1563, 15 Marche. Imprynted at London by Thomas Colwell, for Raffe Newbery, dwelyng in Fletestrete a little aboue the Conduit in the late shop of Thomas Bartelet."

"The hawtye verse yt Maro wrote

"made Rome to wonder muche,
"And meruayle none, for why the style
"And weightynes was suche,

"That all men iudged Parnassus mownt

"had clefte her selfe in twayne,

"And brought forth one that seemd to drop
"from out Mineruaies brayne.

The thirteene Bookes of Eneidos, by Phaer and Twine, 4to. Lond. 1584, 1596, 1607, &c.1 The first four Bookes of Virgil's Æneis, translated into Engl.heroic Verse, by Richard Stanyhurst, &c. 12mo. Lond.

1583

The Bucolickes of Publius Virgilius Maro, &c. by

"But wonder more maye Bryttayne great
"wher Phayre did florysh late,

"And barreyne tong with swete accord
"reduced to such estate :

"That Virgils verse hath greater grace
"in forrayne foote obtaynde,
"Than in his own, who whilst he lyued
"eche other poets staynde.
"The noble H. Hawarde once,

"That raught eternall fame,
"With mighty style did bryng a pece
"of Virgils worke in frame,
"And Grimaold gaue the lyke attempt,
"and Douglas wan the ball,
"Whose famouse wyt in Scottysh ryme
"had made an ende of all.

"But all these same dyd Phayre excell
"I dare presume to wryte,
"As muche as doth Apolloes beames
"the dymmest starre in lyght.
"The enuyous fates (O pytie great)
"had great disdayne to se

"That us amongst there shuld remayn
66 so fyne a wyt as he:

"And in the midst of all his toyle

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dyd force him hence to wende,

"And leaue a worke unperfyt so

"that never man shall ende."

Among the entries in the books of the Stationers' Company, is the following. "Tho. Creede] Virgil's Æneidos in Englishe verse, 1595." Again, in 1600. Again, his Bucolics and Georgics in the same year.

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

Abraham Fleming, drawn into plaine and familiar Englyshe, Verse for Verse, 4to. B. L.

1575

The two first Eclogues of Virgil. By W. Webbe; inserted in his Discourse of Englysh Poetrie.

1586

Virgil's Eclogues and Georgicks, translated into blank Verse by the same Author, Lond. 1589 The Lamentation of Corydon for the love of Alexis, Verse for Verse, out of Latine.

This is translated into English Hexameters, and printed at the end of the Countesse of Pembroke's Toychurch, 1591. By Abraham Fraunce, 4to. bl. l.

Virgil's Culex paraphrased, by Spenser. See his works.

HORACE.

1564

The fyrst twoo Satars or poyses of Orace, Englished, by Lewes Euans, schole-master. Two Bookes of Horace his Satyres Englyshed, accordyng to the Prescription of Saint Hierome, 4to. B. L. Lond. Horace his Arte of Poetrie, Pistles and Satyrs

1566

Englished, by Tho. Drant, 4to. Lond. 1567 Horace's Art of Poetry was also translated loosely into prose by W. Webbe, together with Epistles ad Mecanatem &c. in his Discourse of English Poetrie

1586

OVID.

The fifteene Bookes of Metamorphoseos. In which

'There is an entry at Stationers' Hall of the Epistles of Horace in 1591.

1480

ben contaynid the Fables of Ovid, by William Caxton, Westm. fol. The four first Books of Ovid, transl. from the Latin into English Meetre, by Arthur Golding, Gent. 4to. B. L. Lond.

1565

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

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1567

1576

1565

Do. [Another in 1575 according to Ames. A former Edition was in 1572, in Rawlinson's catal. D°. 1587, D°. 1612 The pleasant Fable of Hermaphroditus and Salmacis, 8vo. Lond. The Fable of Ovid treating of Narcissus, transl. out of Latin into Engl. Mytre, with a Moral ther unto very plesant to rede, 4to. Lond. 1590 The Heroycall Epistles, &c. set out and translated by Geo. Turbervile, Gent. &c. B. L. 12mo. Lond.4 1567, 1569, and 1600 The three first Bookes of Ovid de Tristibus, transl. into English, by Tho. Churchyard, 4to. Lond.

15805

Ovid his Invective against Ibis, translated into Eng. Meeter, &c. 12mo. Lond.

And, by Tho. Underwood

15696

1577

Certaine of Ovid's Elegies by C. Marlow,' 12mo. At Middleburgh.

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no date.

Among the Stationers' entries I find in 1594, "A booke entitled Oenone and Paris, wherein is described the extremity of love," &c. This may be a translation from Ovid.

This book was entered at Stationers' Hall by Tho. Easte, July 1, 1577, and by Thomas Orwin in 1591.

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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 Thomas Easte."

7 In the forty-first of Queen Elizabeth these translations from

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