In the same MS. is a version of the poem on Archbishop Williams (p. 69). Most readings are bad, but the following are noteworthy: 4 concorporate one. 11 And vindicate whate'er. 55 when happier ages (which of late The viper cherish'd) with unpartial fate." ] * * * * * * * * POEMS AND TRANSLATIONS. BY _THOMAS STANLEY_ Esquire. _Quæ mea culpa tamen, nisi si lusisse vocari Culpa potest: nisi culpa potest & amasse, vocari?_ Tout vient a poinct qui peut attendre. Printed for the Author, and his Friends, 1647. POEMS, BY _THOMAS STANLEY_ ESQUIRE. _Quæ mea culpa tamen, nisi si lusisse vocari Culpa potest: nisi culpa potest & amasse, vocari?_ [Illustration] Printed in the Year, 1651. INTRODUCTION TO THOMAS STANLEY Thomas Stanley, poet, scholar, translator, and historian of philosophy, occupies a position in literary history, and in the general knowledge of fairly instructed people, which is less unenviable than that of Cleveland, almost equally curious, but more distinctly accidental. In a way--in more ways than one--he cannot be said to be exactly unknown. Everybody who has received the once usual 'liberal education', if not directly acquainted with his work on classical literature, has seen his _History of Philosophy_ referred to in later histories; and his notes on Aeschylus quoted, and sometimes fought over, in later editions. His translations have attained a place in that private-adventure Valhalla of English translations--Bohn's Library. A few at least of his poems are in all or most of the anthologies. Not many writers have such an anchor with four flukes, lodged in the general memory, as this. And yet there are probably few people who have any very distinct knowledge or idea of his work as a whole; his _Poems_ (until a time subsequent to the original promise of them in this Collection) had never been issued since his own day save in one of the few-copied reprints of the indefatigable Sir Egerton Brydges; and he makes small figure in most literary histories.