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With Scaliger, and Quintus Curtius;
Plutarch, Guichiardine, Gallobelgicus
Thomasio, and Hector Boetius;
Fox, Copper, Froysard, Grafton, Fabian,
Hall, Hove'den, Lanquet, Sleiden, Buchanan,
The Reverend learned Cambden, Selden, Stowe,
With Polychronicon, and Speed, and Howe,
With Parris, Malmsbury, and many more
Whose workes in paper are yet extant store.

Philemon Holland (famous for translation)
Hath (with our owne tongue) well inricht our nation.
Esope, and Aristotle, Pliny, Plato,
Pithagoras, and Cicero, and Cato,
Du Bartas, Ariosto, Martial, Tasso,
Plantus, and Homer, Terence, Virgill, Naso,
Fraunciscus Petrark, Horace, Juvenal,
Philosophers, and ex'lent Poets all.

Or Orators, historians, every one
In paper made their worthy studies knowne.

Who ever went beyond our learned King,
Whose Art throughout the spacious world doth ring:
Such a Divine, and Poet, that each State
Admires him, whom they cannot imitate,

In Paper, many a Poet now survives
Or else their lines had perish'd with their lives.
Old Chaucer, Gower, and Sir Thomas More,
Sir Philip Sidney who the Lawrell wore,
Spencer, and *SHAKESPEARE* did in Art excell,
Sir Edward Dyer, Greene, Nash, Daniell.
Silvester, Beaumont, Sir John Harrington,
Forgetfulnesse their workes would overrun
But that in paper they immortally
Do live in spight of death, and cannot die.

And many there are living at this day
Which do in paper their true worth display:
As Davis, Drayton, and the learned Dun,
Jonson, and Chapman, Marston, Middleton,
With Rowyle, Fletcher, Withers, Messenger,
Heywood, and all the rest where e're they are,
Must say their lines, but for the paper she ete
Had scarcely ground whereon to set their feete.

Acts, Statues, Lawes, would be consum'd and lost
All right and order, topsy-turvy tost:
Oppression, wrong, destruction and confusion,
We'rt not for paper, were the worlds conclusion.
Negotiations, and Embassages
Maps, Cartes, discoveries of strange passages:
Leagues, truces, combinations, and contracts,
Lawes, Nat'rall, Morall, Civill and Divine,
T' instruct, reprove, correct, inlarge, confine.

All Memorandums of forepassed ages,
Sayings and sentences of auncient Sages,
Astronomy, a[N]d Phisick much renownd,
The Liberall Arts rules, maxiomes, or gr[O]und,
The glory of Apolloes Radient shine,
Supporter of the Sacr[E]d sisters Nine,
The Atlas, that all histories doth beare
Throug[H]out the world, here, there, and every where.

All this and more is pa[P]er, and all this,
From fruitfull Hempseed still produced is. . . ..........................................
(TALUS) -52
[PHEON] -52
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Digges commendatory poem to the 1640 edition of Poems:
Written by Wil. Shakespeare, Gent. (1623? - 1635):
http://tinyurl.com/l2s76f3
.
UPON MASTER WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE,
THE DECEASED AUTHOUR, AND HIS POEMS.
.
Poets are borne not mad{E}, whe{N} I wo{U}ld pr{R}ove
......................
{RUNE} -4
.......................
This *TRUTH* , the glad r[E]memberance I must lo[V]e
Of n[EVER] dying Shak[E]speare, who alone,
Is a[R]gument enough to mak[E] that one. .........................................
. <= 18 =>
.
. T h i s*T R U T H*t h e g l a d r[E]
. m e m b e r a n c e I m u s t l o[V]
. e O f n[E V E R]d y i n g S h a k[E]
. s p e a r e,w h o a l o n e,I s a[R]
. g u m e n t e n o u g h t o m a k[E]
. t h a t o n e.
.
[E.VERE] 18 : Prob. near top ~ 1 in 95 ..............................................
. Yet these someti{M}es, even at a friends desire
. Acted, h{A}ve scarce defrai'd the *SEACOALE* fi{R}e
. And doore-keepers : whe[N] let but Fa{L}staffe c[O]me,
. Hall, Poines, the r[E]st y{O}u scarce shall [H]ave a roome
. All is so [P]ester'd : let but Beatrice
. And Benedicke be seene, loe in a trice ..............................................
________ <= 17 =>

Y e t t h e s e s o m e t I M e s
e v e n a t a f r i E n d s d e s
i r e A c t e D h A v e s c a r c
e d e f R a i d t h e S e a c o a
l E f i R e A n d d o o r e k E e
p e r s w h e [N] l e t b U t F a L
s t a f f e c [O] m E H a l l P o i
n e s t h e r [E] s t y O u s c a r
c e s h a l l [H] a v e a r o o m e
A l l i s s o [P] e s t e r d
........................................
_______ <= 14 =>

-Y- e -t t h e s e s o m e t (I)
{M} e s e v e n a t a f r i (E)
-n- d -s d e s i r e A c t e (D)
-h {A} v e s c a r c e d e f (R)
-a i -d- t h e S e a c o a l (E)
_f_ i {R} e A n d d o o r e k (E)
-e p e -r- s w h e n l e t b (U)
-t F a {L} s t a f f e c o m (E)
-H a l l -P- o i n e s t h e r
-e s t y {O} u s c a r c e s h
-a l l h a -v e a r o o m e A
-l l i s s o p e s t e r d

*MARLO* with a skip of 29 years.
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*CATILINE* His Conspiracy (1611), Jonson

TO THE READER IN ORDINARIE.

THE Muses forbid, that I should restrayn[E] your medling, whom I see al[R]eadie busie with the Titl[E], and tricking over the lea[V]es: It is your owne. I depart[E]d with my right, when I let it first abroad. And, now, so secure an Interpreter I am of my
chance, that neither praise, nor dispraise from you can affect mee. Though you COMMEND the two first Actes, with the people, [B]ecause they are the worst; [A]nd dislike the Oration of *[C]ICERO*, in regard you read s[O]me pieces of it, at School, a[N]d
understand them not yet; I shall finde the way to forgive you. .........................................................
. <= 22 =>
.
. T H E M u s e s f o r b i d,t h a t I s h o
. u l d r e s t r a y n [E] y o u r m e d l i n
. g,w h o m I s e e a l [R] e a d i e b u s i e
. w i t h t h e T i t l [E],a n d t r i c k i n
. g o v e r t h e l e a [V] e s:I t i s y o u r
. o w n e.I d e p a r t [E] d w i t h m y r i g
. h t, w h e n I l e t i t f i r s t a b r o a
. d.A n d,n o w,s o s e c u r e a n I n t e r
. p r e t e r I a m o f m y c h a n c e,t h a
. t n e i t h e r p r a i s e,n o r d i s p r
. a i s e f r o m y o u c a n a f f e c t m e
. e.T h o u g h y o u C O M M E N D t h e t w
. o f i r s t A c t e s, w i t h t h e p e o p
. l e,[B] e c a u s e t h e y a r e t h e w o r
. s t;[A] n d d i s l i k e t h e O r a t i o n
. o f*[C] I C E R O*i n r e g a r d y o u r e a
. d s [O] m e p i e c e s o f i t,a t S c h o o
. l,a [N] d u n d e r s t a n d t h e m n o t y
. e t; I s h a l l f i n d e t h e w a y t o f
. o r g i v e y o u.
.
[EVERE] -22 : Prob. ~ 1 in 48
[BACON] 22 : Prob. with same abs. skip ~ 1 in 1470 .........................................................
Though you COMMEND the two first Actes, with the people, [B]ecause they are the worst; [A]nd dislike the Oration of *[C]ICERO*, in regard you read s[O]me pieces
of it, at {S}chool, a[N]d understand them not yet; I shall finde the way to forgi{V}e you. Be any thing you will be, at your owne charge. Would I had DESE{R}V'D but halfe so well of it in translation, as that ought to DEsERV{E} of you in iudgment, if you have any. I know you will pretend (whosoe{V}er you are) to have that, and more. But all pretences are not iust claymes. The COMM{E}DATION [O]f good things may fa[L]l within a many, thei[R] approbation but in [A] few* fo{R} the most COM[M]END OUT OF AFFECTION, selfe tickling, an easinesse, or imitation: b{U}t MEN iudge only out of knowledge. That is the trying faculty. And, to those worke{S} that will beare a Iudge, nothing is more dangerous then A FOOLISH PRAYSE. You will say I shall not have yours, therfore; but rather the contrary, all vexation of Censure. If I were not above such molestations now, I had great cause to thinke unworthily of my studies,
or they had so of mee. But I leave you to your exercise. Beginne.

[MARLO] -17 : Prob. ~ 1 in 73
{VERVS} -53
{VERUS} 66 : Prob. of both ~ 1 in 2720 ------------------------------------------------------
Art Neuendorffer

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