Facetiae : Musarum deliciae, or, The Muses recreation, conteining ...

,yfrEpigrams.1 17.To Mr: Benjamin Johnson.Had Rome but heard her worthies speak so high,As thou hast taught them in thy Poesie ;She would have sent her poets to obtain,(Tutour'd by thee) thy most majestique strain.8. To Mr. George Chapman on his Translationof Homers works into English meeter.Thou Ghost of Homer 'twere no fault to call,His the translation thine the Originall,Did not we know 'twas done by thee so well ;Thou makest Homer, Homers self excell.f9.To William Shake-spear.Shake-speare we must be silent in thy praise,'Cause our encomion's will but blast thy Bayes,Which envy could not, that thou didst so well ;Let thine own histories prove thy Chronicle..., ,,,,,,.. , ,10. To Mr. Thomas Randolph.Thou darling of the Muses for we mayBe thought deserving, if what was thy playOur utmost labours can produce, we willFreely allow thee heir unto the hill,The Muses did assign thee, and think't fitThy younger yeares should have the elder-wit.