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ANCIENT TRANSLATIONS.
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Engl. heroic Verse, by Richard Stanyhurst[1], &c. 12mo. Lond.1583 The Bucolickes of Publius Virgilius Maro, &c. by Abraham Fleming, drawn into plaine and familiar Englyshe, Verse for Verse, 4to. B. L.1575 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 Pemhroke’s Ivychurch 1591. By Abraham Fraunce. Virgil’s Culex paraphrased, by Spenser. See his works.


HORACE.

Two Bookes of Horace his Satyres Englyshed, accordyng to the Prescription of Saint Hierome, 4to. B. L. Lond.1566 Horace his Arte of Poetrie, Pistles[2] and Satyrs Englished, by Tho. Drant, 4to. Lond.1567


OVID.

The fifteene Bookes of Metamorphoseos. In which ben contaynid the Fables of Ovid, by William Caxton, Westm. fol.1480 The four first Books of Ovid, transl. from the Latin into English Meetre, by Arthur Golding, Gent. 4to. B. L. Lond.1565 The fifteene Bookes of P. Ovidius Naso, &c. by Arthur Golding, 4to. Bl. L. Lond.1576 Another in 1575 according to Ames, and another earlier than either, in 1567, if we may believe the Date of the Dedication. [A former Edition was in 1572, in Rawlinson's catal.] Do.1587. Do. 1612. The pleasant Fable of Hermaphroditus and Salmacis. 8vo. Lond.1565

  1. 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.
  2. There is an entry at Stationer’s hall of the Epistles of Horace in 1591.