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Excerpt from English Translations, From Ancient and Modern Poems, Vol. 2 of 3: Rowe's Lucan, Grainger's Tibullus, Fawkes's Theocritus, Apollonuis Rhodius, Coluthus, Anacreon, Sappho, Bion, Moschus, and Musaeus, Garth's Ovid, Lewis's Statius, Cooke's Hesiod
While my deceased husband was engaged in the following long and laborious work, he was not a little supported in it, by the honour which he proposed to himself of dedicating it to your sacred majesty. This design, which had given him so much pleasure for some years, Out-lasted his abilities to put it in execution: for, when his life was despaired of, and this part of the book remained unfinished, he expressed to me his desire, that this translation'should be laid at your majesty's feet, as a mark of that zeal and veneration which he had always entertained for your majesty's royal person and virtues. Had he lived to have made his own address to your majesty upon this occasion, he would have been able, in some measure, to have done justice to that exalted character, which it becomes such as I am to admire in silence: being incapable of representing my dear husband in any thing, but in that profound humility and respect with which I am.
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