<61.1> Achillis Tatii Alexandrini DE LUCIPPES ET CLITOPHONTIS AMORIBUS LIBRI OCTO. The translation of this celebrated work, to which Lovelace contributed the commendatory verses here republished, was executed by his friend Anthony Hodges, A.M., of New College, Oxford, and was printed at Oxford in 1638, 8vo. There had been already a translation by W. Burton, purporting to be done from the Greek, in 1597, 4to. The text of 1649 and that of 1638 exhibit so many variations, that the reader may be glad to have the opportunity of comparison:-- "TO THE LADIES. "Fair ones, breathe: a while lay by Blessed Sidney's ARCADY: Here's a story that will make You not repent HIM to forsake; And with your dissolving looke Vntie the contents of this booke; To which nought (except your sight) Can give a worthie epithite. 'Tis an abstract of all volumes, A pillaster of all columnes Fancie e're rear'd to wit, to be Little LOVE'S epitome, And compactedly expresse All lovers happy wretchednesse. "Brave PAMELA'S majestie And her sweet sister's modestie Are fixt in each of you, you are Alone, what these together were Divinest, that are really What Cariclea's feign'd to be; That are every one, the Nine; And on earth Astraeas shine; Be our LEUCIPPE, and remaine In HER, all these o're againe. "Wonder! Noble CLITOPHON Me thinkes lookes somewhat colder on His beauteous mistresse, and she too Smiles not as she us'd to doe. See! the individuall payre Are at oddes and parted are; Quarrel, emulate, and stand At strife, who first shall kisse your hand. "A new warre e're while arose 'Twixt the GREEKES and LATINES, whose Temples should be bound with glory In best languaging this story: You, that with one lovely smile A ten-yeares warre can reconcile; Peacefull Hellens awfull see The jarring languages agree, And here all armes laid by, they doe Meet in English to court you." Rich. Lovelace, Ma: Ar: A: Glou: Eq: Aur: Fil: Nat: Max. See Halliwell's DICTIONARY OF OLD PLAYS, 1860, art. CLYTOPHON. <61.2> There can be no doubt that Sidney's ARCADIA was formerly as popular in its way among the readers of both sexes as Sir Richard Baker's CHRONICLE appears to have been. The former was especially recommended to those who sought occasional relaxation from severer studies. See Higford's INSTITUTIONS, 1658, 8vo, p. 46-7. In his poem of THE SURPRIZE, Cotton describes his nymph as reading the ARCADIA on the bank of a river-- "The happy OBJECT of her eye Was SIDNEY'S living ARCADY: Whose amorous tale had so betrai'd Desire in this all-lovely maid; That, whilst her check a blush did warm, I read LOVES story in her form." POEMS ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS. By Charles Cotton, Esq. Lond. 1689, 8vo, p. 392.