Stoker doin ROBERT JEPHSON ESQ. Pub, or the Act directs by G.G & J. Robinson July 1 1794 I Singleton Sealp A POE M, IN HEROICK VERSE; WITH HISTORICAL REMARKS AND ILLUSTRATIONS: BY ROBERT JEPHSON, Esq. ΤΗΝ ΜΕΝ ΟΥΝ ΥΠΟΘΕΣΙΝ ΟΤΙ ΚΑΛΗΝ ΕΙΛΗΦΑ, ΚΑΙ ΜΕΓΑΛΟΠΡΕΠΗ, ΚΑΙ ΠΟΛΛΟΙΣ ΩΦΕΛΙΜΟΝ, ΟΥ ΜΑ ΚΡΩΝ ΟΙΜΑΙ ΔΕΗΣΕΙΝ ΛΟΓΩΝ, ΤΟΙΣ ΓΕ ΔΗ ΜΗ ΠΑΝΤΑΠΑΣΙΝ ΑΠΕΙΡΩΣ ΕΧΟΥΣΙ ΤΗΣ ΚΟΙΝΗΣ ΙΣΤΟΡΙΑΣ. DION. HAL. SEMPER AD EVENTUM FESTINAT, ET IN MEDIAS RES, LONDON: PRINTED BY HENRY BALDWIN, FOR G. G. AND J. ROBINSON, IN PATER-NOSTER ROW. M DCC XCIV. то EDMOND MALONE, Esq. T MY DEAR SIR, HIS short address to you is not intended as a formal Dedication; but having long wished for some fair opportunity of doing myself credit by publickly subscribing myself your friend, none seems likely to occur more favourable than the present. From our school-days to this hour, we have lived in a state of uninterrupted intimacy and kindness: natives of the same country, educated under the same masters, and pursuing similar studies, though we have not taken exactly the same path, both have been zealous in the cause of letters. Your labours have furnished instruction to the readers, and mine perhaps in a small degree may contribute to their entertainment; nor can I be insensible to the honour you have done me, when I reflect, that the best commentator on our greatest poet has condescended more than once to be my editor. Without your kind care and encouragement the following Work would not probably have been made publick ; to your protection therefore it is inscribed, with every assurance of esteem and cordiality, by Your obliged and faithful friend, DUBLIN CASTLE, May 26, 1794. ROBERT JEPHSON. |