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Show UU ttnDrials Df . Q.;li Phttbo Delph,fq; [uu, nee confuk ly celebrated in the Annals of Prance, to tantum be infcribed upon this Book : that Men, Patrt, fed & Mtt.glfi nomine dignu1 by this fign may fee, though I ~annot be ovat.) thankful enough, I have not willingly T(J the fame Thuanus, I fay, our .Au· been unthankful. Thettruetl praite ofth~ Grot. in tpi!l. •d ]llcobum thor th•"~ J ."..' dare·p!l~.e J h••m ·Jr.' et1'f· · .To You 'ts thts' ~f!r ene h- ."n'ra tto· n t· s H umam· ty , ei ip ec·ta 11 y rlfM,. ThH171. offer~d , moH illuHrious Prefident, who roward flrangers : but· your Humanity after that light of Scotland have revived bath exceeded all former Hmits,and is not T~agedy. Indeed Buchanan , in other common to the Nation, but proper to polnts moft excellent, feemeth to degene. your felf. You have new-fpirited ·a yorig rate from the bight of the Bn1kjn, fo that man, commendable for nothing but his I rna y (a y , You are the firft by whofc love of good learning , and ad~~ration of Anno 1~08. ' condu<St the old Ma jefty of the Stage is eminent perCons, and you have not 1 only brought back again , from that Prince of countenanced him& eneouraged him with Trag<J!dians u£[chy!HJ. Give me leaveto graciousw~rdi,(which was much:)-butof adore your foodleps, and receive here your own accoid, hav~ adri?itted him (~e~ Tragedy , and that a facred one; to me not offend your honqur in fayino fb) writing whereof as Your example i Into Y._OUr bofom·, as an intimate ftknd~: fo my manifefi inequality might have Moreover, You have laid hold on<aH oc• terred me. For no fober man , where nelc:llloJu co· advance me, with a bounHfuli de: fires to ex cell, would follow prone·, Qnd (I had al fm>fi faid) Paternal to whom who doth not fo gi'le the Affection. Whenf0evc:r: the Affairs of place , as not daring to afpire unto FrtUJCe ·and greater care5 Lhall recall :you• fecond? As for me , I contend not u~ ! it will bt b. fad time' to AU~· moll any one for Glory, but pleafed my toMe 1 ~· For it willde:p~i.ve me. oft:b'e c,h~c:~ in this facred Argument; fearing not fdl\ pmtt of my fttlltity : "'( et tis a com"! fure • vuhile I am unfollicitous of forc'yJthat it !hall never be able tO cxtin- .Anno. 1608. He puhlifhed gul&, 'feitber th'e memory which you arc Tragedy entitled Chriftns patiens pl~ftd to 'retein of, me·, or the honour dedicated it to Petrus Janninus,the whitlitl. have 're<:eived from fo illuflrious a - of France's Emhaffador to the St~tte Primdlhip. And,(eeing;itmuch~orlctr'Q~4 Gmii tpi{l. tld part of his dedic6ltory Epift!e is very lO ha-ve it known ;·1 thought it meet PetrttiiJ ]an11i· be rMd herer Suffel' , I pray , the · rthat 'account to·J~a~e thi$ publkk ul4m. name, and that which wiU be p :; and offer yQ~ this ·Ttagcdy fot Xx 3 a |