reame of _Poliphilus_; Which if it shall please your Honor at
conuenient leysure to looke ouer, pardoning what you finde amisse,
and weighing my good will, I shall thinke my selfe most happy.

And thus I humbly take my leaue, vntill that I may present your Honour,
with a matter more fitting the same.

_Your Honors deuoted,_

R. D.

* * * * *

Anonymi elegia ad Lec-
_torem_.

Candide _Poliphilum_ narrantem somnia Lector
auscultes, summo somnia missa polo,
Non operam perdes, non h[ae]c audisse pigebit,
tam varijs mirum rebus abundat opus.
Si grauis & tetricus contemnis erotica, rerum
nosce precor seriem tam bene dispositam.
Abnuis? ac saltem stylus & noua lingua novusq;
sermo grauis, sophia, se rogat aspicias.
Id quoq; sirenuis, geometrica cerne vetusta
plurima milliacis disce referta notis.
Hic sunt Pyramides, therm[ae], ingentesq; Colossi,
ac Obeliscorum forma vetusta patet.
Hic diuersa basis fulget, vari[ae]que column[ae]
illarumq; arcus, Zophora, epistilia,
Et capita atq; trabes, et cum quadrante coron[ae]
symmetria, & quicquid tecta superba facit.
Hic regum cernes exculta palatia, cultus
Nympharum, fontes, egregiasque epulas.
Hinc bicolor chorea est latronum, expressaque tota
in Laberintheis vita hominum tenebris.
Hinc lege de triplici qu[ae] maiestate tonantis
dicat, & in portis egerit ipse tribus._
Polia _qua fuerit forma, quam culta, tryumphos
inde Iouis specta quatuor [ae]thereos.
H[ae]c pr[ae]ter varios affectus narrat amoris,
atque opera & quantum s[ae]uiat ille Deus._

Faultes escaped in the printing.

[Transcriber's Note:
The corrections listed here have been made in the text. In many cases
the printed form is different from that shown under "faults"; these
original forms are given in [brackets].]

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| Fol. | page. | line. | faults. | correction. |
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| 1. | 2 | 38 | I begin of the | I began the |
| 4. | 2 | 8 | member. | members. |
| 6. | 1 | 12 | troake, | trunke, |
| 6. | 2 | 3 | assured, | azur'd. |
| 7. | 1 | 33 | fiing, [fying] | flying.