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ANCIENT TRANSLATIONS.

The Fable of Ovid treating of Narcissus, transl. out of Latin into Eng. Mytre, with a Moral ther unto very plesante to rede, 4to. Lond.1560 The Heroycall Epistles, &c. set out and translatcd by Geo. Turbervile, Gent. &c. B. L. 4to. Lond[1].1507, 1569, and 1600 The three first Bookes of Ovid de Tristibus, transl. into English, by Tho. Churchyard, 4to. Lond.1580[2] Ovid his Invective against Ibis, translated into Eng. Meeter, &c. 12mo. Lond.1569[3] And 1577, by Tho. Underwood. Certaine of Ovid's Elegies by C. Marlow[4]. 12mo. At Middleburghno date. All Ovid's Elegies, three Bookes. By C. M. At Middleburgh. 12mo. Somewhat larger than the preceding edition. Salmacis and Hermaphroditus, by Fra. Beaumont, 4to.1602 He Likewise translated a Part of the Remedy of Love. There was another Translation of the whole, by Sir Tho. Overbury, 8vo.without date[5].


PLAUTUS.

Menæchmi, by W. W. Lond.[6]1595


MARTIAL.

Flowers of Epigrams (from Martial particularly) by Tim. Kendall, 8vo[7].1577

  1. Among the Stationers’ entries I find in 1594, “A booke entitled Ocnone and Paris, wherein is described the extremity of Jove, &c.” This may be a translation from Ovid.
  2. This book was enter'd at Stationers’ hall by Tho. Easte, July 1, 1577, and by Thomas Orwin in 1591.
  3. Among the entries in the books ot the Stationers’ company is the following. Henry Bynneman] July 1, 1577, Ovid's Invective against Ibis. Bought of Tho. Easte.
  4. In the forty-first of Q. Eliz. these translations from Ovid were commanded by the archbishop of Canterbury and the bishop of London, to be burnt at Stationers' hall.
  5. On the books of the Stationers' company, Dec. 23, 1599, is entered “Ovidius Naso his Remedy of Love.” Again, in the same year, “Ovydes Epistles in Englyshe,” and “Ovydes Metamorphosis in Englyshe.”
  6. This piece was enter'd at Stationers' hall June 10th 1594. In 1520, viz. the 11th year of Hen. VIII. it appears from Holinshed, that a comedy of Plautus was played before the king.
  7. Entered at Stationers’ hall Feb. 1576.