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The Complete Works of Thomas Lodge 1580-1623? Now First Collected...
The Complete Works of Thomas Lodge 15801623 Now First Collected Author:Edmund Gosse, Thomas Lodge Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: with intollerablc iniurie. But if with Zoylus hee might kiffe the gibet, or with Patacion hop headleffe, the world fhoulde bee ridde of an iniurious flaunderer, ... more »and that tongue laboured in fuppofitions, might be nailed vp as Tullies was for his Philipicall declamations. But good Stephen, in like forte will I deale with thee, as Phillip of Macedon with Nicanor, who not refpecting the maieftie of the king, but giuing himfelfe ouer to the petulancie of his tongue vainly inueighed againft him, whom notwithftanding Philip fo cunningly handeled, that not onely he ceafed the rumor of his report, but al- fo made him as lauifh in commending, as once he was profufe in difcommending: his attempt was thus perfor- med, he feeing Nicanor forely preffed with pouerty, re- leeued him to his content. Wherevpon altering his cop- pie, and breaking out into fingular commendation of Philip, the king concluded thus: Loe, curtefie can make of bad good, and of Nicanor an enimie, Nicanor a friend. Whofe actions my reprouer, I will now fit to thee, who hauing flaundered me without caufe, I will no other- wife reuenge it, but by this meanes, that now in pub- like I confeffe thou haft a good pen, and if thou keepe thy Methode in difcourfe, and leaue thy flandering without caufe, there is no doubt but thou fhalt bee commended for thy coppie, and praifed for thy ftile. And thus defi- ring thee to meafure thy reportes with iuftice, and you good Gentlemen to anfwere in my behalfe if you heare me reproched. I leaue you to your pleafures, and for my felfe I will ftudie your profit. Your louing friend, Thomas Lodge. BARNABE RICH Gentleman Souldier, in praife of the Author. T F that which warnes the young beware of vice, And fchooles the olde to fhunne vnlawfull gaine, If pleafant ftile and metho...« less