rected. anthonic vold b'zinom eyed. Puellam, cujus Zonam folvit, cujus VERNOS ЭТЕП Flos duv hod • DA6 20 A Votive VI Inicome now onthe Votive Table Table cor- which is rich in poetick Grades, howeverio verwhelm'd with Depravation and Sir Georgel seems as much to have mistaken the Pur? port, as the Words, of the Infcriptionisti I Chalcedon, fays he, foundians Inforption in) the Wall of a private Houses near the bær Fbzi which fignifieth, that Evaste the Son of's Anti pater, having made a prosperous Moyngd, and defiring to return by the gean Sea offerid akes at a Statue, which he had erected to I piter, which had fent fam. Jucb good Weath as a Token of his good Voyage. kim Ju abmo 2 to 心 πρωτοΝ ΩΝισιον εκπετάσας 4 Κυανεαίς ♦ EILI KTANEAS AINAS APOMPI δίνησιν ἐπίδε འ་ 9 Ευανθή. eld QAE 'EYANTH -olia has led us 1970 med το φίλων. 01 Στησει φιλων ἀγαθῆς συμβολαίοι τον I. I have mark'd as before, my Corrections at the Side; and I may venture to fay, I have fupported the the faltring. Verfes both with འ heard of viso V Numbers and Senfe. But who ever Ebanir, saa the Name of a Mon,in Greece? Neither is this Infcription a Piece of Ethnielda T Devotion, as Sir George has fuppos'd it to a Staude niccted to Jupiter: On the contrary, it defpifes: chofe fruitless Superftitions.es Philo (a Chriftians as it seems to me) fots Lit up in Thanks for a fafe Voyage, to the true God. Than all my Readers may equally fhare in this Mttle Poem, I have attempted to put it into an English Drefsg A sdi yd wrist of griripph -ut at bs tom ford, ed Invoke who Will the prosp’rous Gale behind, Jove at the Prow, while to the guiding Wind O'er the blue Billows be the Sail expands, 25 -Where Neptune with each Wave heaps, Hills of Sands: Then let him, when the Surge be backwardne Z plows ZAKIA Pour to bis Statue-God unaiding Vows. I 1 lafterc Tmhall have no Occafion, Fbelieve, to ask the Pardon of fome Readers for these Nine laft Pages and Others may be To kind to pafs them over 'at their Pleasure. Those Discoveries, which give Light and Satisfaction to d4 the The Delay the truly Learned, I must confefs, are Darkym nels and Mystery to the lefs capable: Del ramgaddick, buğuderon®N3 3Ép=6&•») 10 they be abfolutely foreign, I hope, to a Prod facoin fome Measure critical; especially, asb it could not be amifs to fhew, that I have read others Books with the fame Accuracy, with, which il profefs to have read Shakespeare, Befidas Ibdefign' this Inference from the Deb VifReal fence of Literal Criticifm. If the Latin and Grack Languages Have receiv'd the greatest, Adamages imaginable the Editors and Criticks of the two la from the Labours bysmbofe Aid and Alliftance the Grammarid V two laf Ageson anni Waveo been enabled to write to benut iho thee Art than even the preceding 2 and write infinitely Grammarians, Who Wrote when thofe Tongues a flednu boas living Languages : I should acto fledh'das count Litbad peculiar Happiness, that, by the q faint Afsay I Have made this Work Path g moghw be chalk'd our of abler Hands by which to derive the rame Advantages Advantages tho own Bongue:H' Tongue, which, tho it wantsil alodw yra paiword edT of this Edi- which, intended mould make any Parm of this tion excu Jed. mySubfcribers," why they haven waited don sa i if the middle of the Year 1728, Infuilt spur out Hfy Proposals for publishing only Emenda A tions and Remarks on our Poet: and had pad pro not gone on many Months in this Schemed before I found it to be the unanimous Wifhts of the way or of thole who did me the Honour off theird Subfcriptions, that I would give them othe Papwould Poet's Text corrected; and that, I would fubo john thofe Explanatory Remarks, which I had? purposed to publish upon the Foots of myst fit Proporals. Earneft Sollicitations weren mide to me, that I would think of fuchsanw Edition' Edition', which I had as trong: Defires too didas lifters to and some noble Perfons then, whom I have to Privilege to name, were pleafed tact intereft themfelves fo far in the Affair,mast tois propose to Mr. Tonson his undertaking amImil premnon of Shakespeare with my Corrections! q donfor The throwing my whole Work into anidifferent Form, to comply with this Propofal, was not the Mightent Labour and fo ng little Time Ɑ was unavoidably loft, While the Publicatio onbry Remarks was thus refpited, my my Enemies Enemies took an unfair. Occafion to fuggest, that I was to We wouiseorting my Subfcri without ever defigning to give them any I any Thing for it: an Infinuation levell at once to wound me in Reputation, and utereft Confcious, however, of my own juft Intentio idious to ons, and labouring all the while to bring my a with'd Purpose to bear, I thought thefe apo TAILS 20 037 nymous Standerers worthy of no Notice. Juftification of myfelf would have been gives want de 20 ing them Argument for fresh Abufe, and was willing to believe that any unkind Opinio ons, entertain'd to my Prejudice, would turally drop and lofe their Force, when they Publick thould once be convinced that I was in Earpeft, tO CONVIDA neft, and ready to do them, Justice, d Id left no Means untry'd to put it in my Power to do this and I hope, without Breach of Modefty, I may venture to appeal to all candid Judges, whether I have not employ'd all my Power to be juft to them in the Executw to themployd tion of my Task. I maft needs have been in office the mort Painoan mult, Pain, who faw myself daily fo bar barbully outraged. I might have taken, adap 11 Vanfare of theio, urable Impreffions enter tam'd of my Work, and hurried if crudelyr into the World : But I have fufferid, for my Authot's lake, those Impreffions, to cool, and, perhaps, be loft; and and can now appeal only to the Judgment of the Publick. If I fucceed in this Point, the |