BODL THE HYMNS of CALLIMACHUS, Tranflated from the GREEK into ENGLISH Verfe, With EXPLANATORY To which are added, NOTES. Select Epigrams, and the Goma Berenices of the fame Author, AND The Encomium of PTOLEMY by THEOCRITUS. By WILLIAM DOD D, B. A. WH.Toms Sculp LONDON: Printed for the TRANSLATOR, And SOLD by 293. h.10. T. WALLER in Fleet-Street, and J. WARD, near the Royal Exchange. MDCC LV. то HIS GRACE THOMAS DUKE of NEWCASTLE, Chancellor of the University of CAMBRIDGE. MY LORD, HEN it was proposed to me by my Lord Bishop of Chester, that I should offer these First Fruits of my academical Labours to your GRACE, it was with much Satisfaction, that I embraced the PropoXfal: Nothing doubting of your GRACE's Favour to a Member of that Univerfity, which has been fo di 2 ftinguished by your Regard, and more especially to a Member of that College, which claims the Honour of your GRACE's Education. But when the Honourable Gentleman * who has long been an Ornament to that Icarned Body in general, and to our Society in particular, was pleased to introduce my Caufe to your GRACE, your ready and pleafing Acceptance of my little Tribute, was no more than the Fruits of a reafonable and well grounded Expectation. THE Author, here offered to your GRACE's Patronage, was happy in the Smiles and Protection of the most Noble and Worthy PRINCES: His Merits were equal to their Esteem, his Gratitude no inconfiderable Means of perpetuating their Glory, and thofe very Paffages, wherein he applauds his Benefactors, fufficient Testimonies of the Excellency of their Judgment. IT has been my Endeavour, that he should lofe none of his deserved Praise in an English Drefs; how far I have fucceeded, must be left to the De *The Honourable Thomas Townbend, Efq; Member for the Univerfity of Cambridge. cifion cifion of others: But I fhall efteem myself happy, if the acknowledged Worth of the Author fhall recommend to your GRACE's Regard, the more humble Labours of the Tranflator. OUR Author and his Patrons are no more ; but the Works of the one are the standing Memorials of the Fame of both: And, (in the Words of one of our Poets) What Reward Than this more excellent, for Pow'r and Wealth THEOC. Encom. p. 196. Suffer me, my Lord, (without that Flattery which have rendered Dedications infamous) heartily to wifh, that your GRACE, like these illuftrious Persons, may gain the Stamp of Worth and honeft Fame, by di recting |