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 12. 24 The English Scholar’s Library. ro. Richard Stanyhurst, the Irish Historian. Translation of jEneid 1-IY. 1582. Thee first fovre Bookes of Virgil his ^Eneis translated intoo English heroical [i.e. y hexameter] verse by Richard Stanyhurst, wyth oother Poetical diuises theretoo annexed. Imprinted at Leiden in Holland by Iohn Pates, Anno M. D. LXXXII. This is one of the oddest and most grotesque books in the English language ; and having been printed in Flan- ders, the original Edition is of extreme rarity. The present text is, by the kindness of Lord Ashburn- HAMandS.CHRISTIE-MlLLER, Esq., reprinted from the only two copies known, neither of which is quite perfect. Gabriel Harvey desired to be epitaphed, The Inventor of the English Hexameter ; and Stanyhurst, in imitat- ing him, went further than anyone else in maltreating English words to suit the exigencies of Classical feet. II. Martin Marprelate. The Epistle. 1588. Oh read ouer D. John Bridges, for it is a worthy worke : Or an epitome of the fyrste Booke of that right worshipfull volume, written a- gainst the Puritanes , in the defence of the noble cleargie, by as worshipfull a prieste , John Bridges, Pres- byter, Priest or Elder, doctor of Diuillitie , and Deane of Sarum. The Epitome [p. 26] is not yet published , but it shall be, when the Byshops are at conuenient leysure to view the same. In the meane time, let them be content with this learned Epistle. Printed oversea, in Europe , within two furlongs of a Bounsing Priest, at the cost and charges of M. Mar- prelate, gentleman. | .Robert Greene, m.a. Menaphon. 1589. Menaphon. Cam- illas alarum to slumbering Euphues, in his melancholie Cell at Silexedra. Wherein are de- ciphered the variable effects of Fortune, the wonders of Loue, the triumphes of incon- stant Time. Display- ing in sundrie con- ceipted passions ( figured in a con- tinuate Historie) the Trophees that Vertue carrieth triumphant , maugre the wrath of Enuie, or the resolu- tion of Fortune. One of Greene’s novels, with Tom Nash’s Preface, so important in reference to the earlier HAMLET, before Shakespeare’s tragedy. Greene’s “ love pamphlets” were the most popular Works of Fiction in England, up to the appearance of Sir P. Sidney’s Arcadia in 1590.