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Show c.Mimlridls of * HII!IJ GrDtir~ .,.. Some will accuie che Variety and defuJ. fi.:f~~mo Grot1o ~orious kind of writing. The work indeed n not of one a~. Spnngand Summerare itveral fe!fons .' And a mans mind is not a. I ways in the (a me cemptr : fometimes free and at its own command; (omccimes wea. ry, and feeking where to breath· often by rcqueft of friends bound and c~nfined to a certain fubjeCl.Neither do I think it the part of a oon(tam man , to puc the fame counten~nce upon jeH arid earneft. Moreover, my wit and Gcnius 'beino dua: ile and apt tCJ follow , as it was ~armed with the reading of any Poet, was eafily led in the way of imitation. I acknowledge my felf in fome places full Jf L:ttans ipirir, in other very · lludious of Mtutilms, and in other a ttcinpting lomewhat more calligate after the pattern of Statrus and Cl~Audial1, &c. But for the edition of theie poe'ms, I neither Jay yea, nor n.ty , but leave you tO your felf, and to the Com1fils of thole , who are molt able to judge thereof. Such as are .rhofe ~rinces of this Art Hetnft m and Rutger· j1u.r , and the moll: honell: and moll lear· ned Vojfius. However , I rejoyce in ha" ving fuch a brother, who loved~ not my perion only but my writings to frater· na11y. W~ar~ now coming neertothat Ecclipfe cf honour, which overtook thu great light in hi.r own Cottntrey: but , before we give you the jl-ory of that,you Jhall,if )'OU pltafe, ~ehold the Vt!Mthor. behold him fhining in his full [plemlor , in that happy £logy or charailer bejfoJt~ea on him by his moft worthy a.nd moft dear friend now-mentiond , Gerard us V offius : * 0 quam te memorem , optimi parentis,. ] 1• Gtr~rlli Proles maxima ter-betf.tcGroti! vo(ii&IJ'mtn a4 Tu Phar[alica bella detonantcm Rugonem Gro- V'ittt. reftituis: tuum eft quod £ger tiurll. t Felix nomine c.}itl.arcianm ille Jam felix tterum vigere cwpit : Vivunt per te u4vienm atq; Aratm Et Gerrpanicus. Alter e/.Efcult~pi Vas vitam & jimul accipis perenncm. Sed ne fumma tru fit ifta !audu, *En Jilvas Jimt!cs 'Papinianis, En pares ~/egos Tibu!lianis ; Non cedunt Senec£ tui cothurni, Ncr: cedunt Epigrammatum ltbelli Mtt{£ Biibzlic£ aut Catullian£. Ludunt fngula Jinguli Poet£: Jftfc tu cunlla potes,. Pocta no{lert. Q.uis non hoc ftupeat Batava Siren ? NondtJm diximus,. &xpbcas futuris Bella Belgic a Jeculis fuavi Ex virtutibus utriu[q; cinno, {ontendens Tacitoq; Livioq; Gratior Themidi nee eft [acerdo;, Et follcrtior cxpedire C£C4 Legum ttnifTtnata. (hart a teftu i/llf, , ~"' pr'"4jla~ ma,·e liberum Batavis, Et qu., pDft a[itt, Jequentur illam. Teftu innumera ilia, cui fuifti Sa/m ptrfHgiumq;, turba. Tejfu Cat a "H. Grorii Potmata. t The bell: Poems of thefe later Ages were writren l:>y the bcfr Scholar , the immorral Hugo Grotius. The editor nf Mr.Canwrzght. / |