Batrachomyomachia, or, the wonderfull and bloudy Battell betweene Frogs and Mice (1634) by Homer, translated by William Fowldes
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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 thewarres: The severall combats of every person of worth, with many other memorableaccidents.
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.