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Batrachomyomachia, or, the wonderfull and bloudy Battell betweene Frogs and Mice

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Batrachomyomachia, or, the wonderfull and bloudy Battell betweene Frogs and Mice (1634)
by Homer, translated by William Fowldes

Originally published in 1613, with the author identified as 'W. F. CCC.' this transcription is of the 2nd edition of 1634.

Homer4282161Batrachomyomachia, or, the wonderfull and bloudy Battell betweene Frogs and Mice1634William Fowldes


Βατραχομυομαχία:

OR:

THE WONDERFVLL
and bloudy Battell betweene
Frogs and Mice.

The occasion of their falling out: TheirPreparation, Munition, and resolution for the warres: The severall combats of every person of worth, with many other memorable accidents.
Interlaced with divers pithy and morall sentences, no lesse pleasant to be read, then profitableto be observed.
Paraphrastically done into English Heroycall verse, by William Fowldes, late one of the Cursitorsof his Majesties high Court of Chancery.
LONDON: Printed by T. H. for Lawrence Chapman, and are to be sold at his shop in Holborne, at Chancery Lane end, 1634.


Perlege Mæonio cantatas carmine Ranas,Et frontem nugis solvere disce meis.Martialis in Xenia, 183.


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