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Title: The Lusiad
or The Discovery of India, an Epic Poem

Author: Luis de Camoes

Editor: E. Richmond Hodges

Translator: William Julius Mickle

Release Date: May 26, 2010 [EBook #32528]

Language: English

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THE LUSIAD.

[Illustration: Image of Camoens]

THE LUSIAD;

OR,

THE DISCOVERY OF INDIA.

_AN EPIC POEM._

TRANSLATED FROM THE PORTUGUESE OF LUIS DE CAMOENS.

WITH A LIFE OF THE POET.

BY WILLIAM JULIUS MICKLE.

_FIFTH EDITION, REVISED,_

BY E. RICHMOND HODGES, M.C.P.,

HON. LIBRARIAN TO THE SOCIETY OF BIBLICAL ARCHAEOLOGY,

_Editor of "Cory's Ancient Fragments," "The Principia Hebraica," etc., etc._

LONDON: GEORGE BELL AND SONS, YORK STREET,
COVENT GARDEN.

1877.

"As the mirror of a heart so full of love, courage, generosity, and
patriotism as that of Camoens, The Lusaid can never fail to please us,
whatever place we may assign to it in the records of poetical
genius."--HALLAM.

[ORIGINAL DEDICATION, 1776.]

TO THE DUKE OF BUCCLEUGH.

MY LORD,

The first idea of offering my LUSIAD to some distinguished personage,
inspired the earnest wish, that it might be accepted by the illustrious
representative of that family under which my father, for many years,
discharged the duties of a clergyman.

Both the late Duke of BUCCLEUGH, and the Earl of DALKEITH, distinguished
him by particular marks of their favour; and I must have forgotten him,
if I could have wished to offer the first Dedication of my literary
labours to any other than the Duke of BUCCLEUGH.

I am, with the greatest respect,
My Lord,
Your Grace's most devoted
And most obedient humble servant,

WILLIAM JULIUS MICKLE.

EDITOR'S PREFACE.

In undertaking, at the publishers' request, the function of editor of
Mickle's Lusiad, I have compared the transl