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fire_n	air_n	element_n	water_n	13,099	5	6.7742	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14497	Virgils Eclogues translated into English: by W.L. Gent; Bucolica. English	Virgil.; Lathum, William.; Vives, Juan Luis, 1492-1540.	1628 (1628)	STC 24820; ESTC S119264	75,407	208

hee is a God why doost thou seek the living amongst the dead● Hee is God that lives for evermore From hence comes joy into our hearts and great hope of blessednesse All which in the next verse is prayed for namely that hee would confirme his happinesse and ratifie that which by his expresse commandement we● promise to our selves concerning him Oh bee propitious and thy servants c. VVho trust in thee who with all their indeavour doe cleave and adhere unto thee and doe fly to thy patronage as to a safe Asylum and make them absolutely thine whosoever call upon thee for helpe Behould foure Altars c. Perhaps Virgil adds this after the custome observed of the heathen and hee very often mentions Apollo either in respect of the Pastorall verse or for that hee is the God of all Poets or els having respect to Augustus Caesar. But if hee tooke these verses out of the Sybil heereby is meant worship due to the humanity of Christ under the person of Daphnis and to his divinity under the person of Apollo Therefore it is that hee useth this word Arae to Daphnis and Altaria to Apollo forasmuch as Arae are used to those who of mortall men were made Gods Altaria dedicate to those who were the supreme and chiefe of the heavenly Gods Moreover Christ is the true Phaebus that is the Sunne of Iustice and Righteousnesse Ne store of Bacchus c. Christs feasts are not after the manner of such as are dead solemnized with griefe in silence and mourning but with joy and rejoycing as of one living and reigning and mediatour of our everlasting peace and grace with his Father These duties I will c. The remembrance of Christ his holy worship in the Church shall never end so long as man kinde and nature have any beeing This is saith St. Paul the Cup of my new and eternall testament so oft as yee shall eate of this bread and drink of this Cup yee shall shew the Lords death till hee come Their vowes to Bacchus and to Ceres c. As to the most usefull Gods for the sustaining of this mortall life without which man cannot propagate and preserve their kinde so they shall offer their vowes and other duties of devotion to thee and thy power to grant or deny suites made to thee shall bee no lesse then theirs Nathlesse nevertheless or notwithstanding THE ARGVMENT OF THE SIXTH EGLOGVE THis Eglogue intreateth of sundry secrets namely of the first beginning of all things and of the divinity of the Heathen Heerein the power and vertue of the Muses is deciphered whose Knowledge reacheth to all things They celebrate the Gods and preserve the memory of the Heroes and noble Personages as Gallus and Varus c. They also pierce into the ne●rest secrets and mysteries of nature whereof they have their denomination 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which signifies to search or by searching to know for asmuch as they have the knowledge of all things Therefore the opinion of some unskilfull and unlearned is ridiculous who imagine that onely the skill of songs verse belongs to the Muses seeing that a Muse properly is the knowledge and skill of all things both humane and divine as Virgil declares lib. 2. Georgie SILENVS Egloga sexta FIrst my Thalia daign'd in Siracusian verse To play ne 'mongst the woods blusht to converse When Kings and Arms I sung Cynthius mine eare Twicht and this Item whisper'd doost thou heare Tityrus a shepheard his flock fat must feede And homely Hornpipes carroll on his Rheede Now sith great Varus many may bee found That can thy praises and dread warres resound My Muse in tune to my small Pipe I le set Ne I unbidden sing if any yet These songs delight to reade my Tamarisk And euery wood shall Varus sing of thee Ne any lines to Pha●bus gratefull bee As which beare title of brave Varus name Ph●rian Muses now begin the same The Ladd Muasilus and young Chromis spyde All in a Cave Silenus gaping wide His veines all swell'd as woont and fast asleepe With wine which yesterday hee gusled deepe Slipt from his head his Guarland off did lye And his great tankard handle-worn hung by Now for the dotard had with hope of song Them oft deceivd they seize him all among And with his own-selfe Guarlands sast him brayld They fearfull standing Aegle him assayld Aegle mongst all the Naya●des most fayre And all his front and temples doth besmayre With Mulberry-bloody-Iuice with this hee wakes And scorning their abuse why Sirs what makes You bynd mee thus quoth hee Lads set mee free And think you blest that mee you might but see Call for what songs yee please songs your reward And other guerdon I le this Nymph award Eftsoones hee to his songs himselfe addreast Then mote yee see the Faunes the measures tripp The Beasts doe leape the rigid Okes doe skipp Their curled branches capr'e in the ayre For of Parnassus mountain the sole heyre Phoebus is not nor Orpheus th' only hee Whom Ismarus and Rhodope admire And first hee sings how seedes of ayre and fire Water and earth from that vast Chaos were Vnited first then from these Elements How th'infant world and all things did commense How th' Earth woxe firme and Naereus confin'd Within the Seas how all things in their kind Received forme successive by degrees Then how amaz'd the earth stands when it sees The new-Suns radiant Beames and clowdy tovvres Exhaled high now melting into shovvres And vvhen the vvoods in green vvere first arayd And vvhen strange Beasts the uncooth mountains strayd The story then of Pyrrha's stones again Hee doth recount and of Saturnus raign The Fowles of Ca●casus Prometheus theaft Of Hyl●● and the fatall streame where leaft The woefull Mariners him lowd deplore That Hylas Hylas ecchoed all the shore Then fortunate if heards had never bee Hee comforts in his song Pa●iphae For loving of the snow-white-Bull alack Ah haplesse Dame what fury did thee rack The Pratides the fields and forrests streawd With false-forc'd lowings yet were not so leaw'd With lust of Beasts unkindly to bee caught Though on their neckes they fear'd the yoak sought And fealt for horns in their smooth foreheads oft Poore sowle now roming'mongst the Hills aloft Whilst all among the Daffod Ilies soft Streaking his white lithe-limbes under some tall Black Holm-tree hee or upward doth recall Into his tender Cudd the pallid hearbs Or wooes some sweete-heart in the goodly heards Dict●ean Nymphes yee Lady Nymphes of woods Shut up the Groves fense round the Forrest-bracks Enaunter I espie his stragling tracks The pleasant Grass I muchil am afeard Or some or other Heyfer of the heard May to Cortinia this Bull perswade Then hee pursues the story of the Maid Erst of th' Hesperian fruit inamoured Then Phaetons sisters hee invelloped With bitter Alders-hoary-barke-around And tall straight Trees them planted in the ground Then did hee sing how Gallus wandring by