Epistolae HoElianae - 1754 Author:James Howell 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: Nor would thefe Letters be fo Familiar as to prefume upon fo high a Patronage,, were not many of them Records of your own Royal Actions : And'tis well known, tha... more »t Letters can treafure up, and tranfmit Matters of State to Pofterity, with as much Faith, and be as authentic Re- gifters, and fafe Repofitories of Truth, as any Story whatfoever, This brings them to He projlrate at your Feef, with their Author, who is, ' ' ... "'- ' ; S I R, Your Majefty's mofl Loyal Subjecl: and Servant, J. HO WELL. The chapter{Section 4Presented To His Majesty for a New-Tear's-Gtft, by Way of Difcourfe betwixt the Poet and his Muje. Calendis Januarii, 1641. P O E M A. TH E World's bright Eye, Time's Meafurer, begun Through wat'ry Capricorn his Courfe to run ; Old Janus haften'd on, his Temples bound With Ivy, his grey Hairs with Holly crown'd : When in a ferious Queft my Thoughts did mufe, What Gift, as beft becoming, I fliould chufe To Britain's Monarch (my dread Sov'reign) bring, Which might fupply a New-Tear's Offering. I rummag'd all my Stores, and fearch'd my Cells, Where nought appear'd, God-wot, but Bagatels : No far-fetch'd Indian Gem cut out of Rock, Or fifli'd in Shells, were trufted under Lock ; No Piece which Angela's ftrong Fancy hit, Or Titian's Pencil, or rare Hillyara"s Wit; No Ermines, or black Sables, no fuch Skins, ", As the grim Tartar hunts or takes in Gins ; No Medals, or rich Stuffof Tyrian Dye No coftly Bowls of frofted Argentry ; No curious Landfkip, or fome Marble Piece Digg'd dp in Ddphos, or elfewhere in Greece , No Roman Perfumes, Buffs, or Cordovans, Made drunk with Amber by Moreno's Hands ', No Arras or rich Carpets, freighted o'er The furging Seas fromJa's doubtful Shore ; No Lion's Cub, or Beaft of ftrange Afpect, Which in Num...« less