ΤΟ HIS GRACE THOMAS DUKE of NEWCASTLE, Chancellor of the University of CAMBRIDGE. MY LORD, HANS HEN it was proposed to me by my Lord Bishop of Chefter, that I fhould offer these First Fruits of my academical Labours to your GRACE, it was with much Satisfaction, that I embraced the Propofal: Nothing doubting of your GRACE's Favour to a Member of that Univerfity, which has been fo di stinguished 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 learned Body in general, and to our Society in particular, was pleased to introduce my Cause to your GRACE, your ready and pleafing Acceptance of my little Tribute, was no more than the Fruits of a reasonable 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 Efteem, his Gratitude no inconfiderable Means of perpetuating their Glory, and those very Paffages, wherein he applauds his Benefactors, fufficient Teftimonies 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 Townshend, Efq; Member for the University of Cambridge. cifion L 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 And all their mighty Wealth is loft in Night, THEOC. Encom. p. 196. Suffer me, my Lord, (without that Flattery which have rendered Dedications infamous) heartily to wish, that your GRACE, like these illuftrious Perfonis, may gain the Stamp of Worth and honeft Fame, by di recting 1 recting all your Actions,---the leaft of which, in your high Station, is important---to the Glory of God, the Honour of your most gracious Sovereign, and the Good of your Country: That fo, when, like theirs, your outward Splendor shall be diminished, and you fleep in Duft, your Fame may flourish in happy Immortality below, yourself may flourish in far more happy Immortality above. I am, |