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To the Reader.
elamation in Engliſh, * that had it fallen
zanto my Hands eer I entred on this Work, tke
Perufal of 2 would have fearcely dijcourag at
mefrom purfuing theUndertaking: For to hav
adventured abroad a Second Edition of this
antiquated Verſion, would doubtleſs haze beenz
Interpreted as a Deſign rather of Exerciſing
the Reader in the unpleaſant Task of labori¬
oufly picking out the Meaning of obſolete
Words and Expreffions, than of fairly leading
him into the True and Genuine Sense of the
Original ; although what is here aljerted
might be eaſily made out beyond all Pojibility
of Exception 5 yet the Learned- Author ac¬
quitted bimfèlf Jo very well herein, that he
comes fully up, even to the moſt commendable
Way of Wretzug, which obtain d in bis Lime.
The Modern Tranflator (ro whom I intended
the Rule,but now laid down,to be chiefly applied)
reed himfelf fo ftrztily toa Literal OLfervance of
the Latin, that to.a bare Englith Reader, unac¬
quaënted with Allufions to the Eloquence of
the Latin Tongue, bis Verfion. is fometimes
puzzling and obſcure, at leaſt never fo finooth
and voluble, as.the Gaiety of the Argument
nvould better have difpeusd with ; whereas,
éz thes Rehearfal of mine, I have (more I
confeſs to my own Eafe, and more gratefully,
I queftion not, to the Palate of others) al¬
lowed my Jeif Juch Elbow-room of Expreffion,
às the Humourfomencfs of the Subject, and
the Idiom of Language, did invite, tf not
sn
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* Done bySir Thomas Chaloner, and Printed at Lone
don, 1549; in qto.,
Ca) command,