Works, Dedicatory poem – Preface
—IOSEPHI MEDI?—
Assurge, quicquid uspiam es docti chori,
Tantóque honores exhibeto nomini;
Cui Musa nostra pangeret carmen lubens,
Sed Medus omni major est praeconio.
Verùm beatum te, Iosephe, duxerim,
Sortita talem Scripta quòd sint vindicem;
Qui sparsa dudum ceu Sibyllae folia
Prodire curat debito volumine,
Mendísque preli seculíque sordibus
Vix illa toto liberat triennio:
Nunc integer, comptus, nitens, concors tibi
Vigebis infinita ad usque secula.
O te beatam paginam tanto Hospite!
O cui invidere cuncta possint marmora!
G. D.
THE WORKS OF The Pious and Profoundly-Learned Ioseph Mede, B. D. SOMETIME Fellow of CHRIST'S Colledge in CAMBRIDGE.
Corrected and Enlarged according to the Author's own Manuscripts.
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HINC LVCEM ET POCVLA SACRA &
ALMA MATER CANTA BRIGIA
LONDON, Printed by Roger Norton, for Richard Royston, Bookseller to His most Sacred MAIESTY, M DC LXXII.
THE WORKS OF Ioseph Mede, B. D. IN FIVE BOOKS.
The Third Edition. duplicate page duplicate page
Almae Matri ACADEMIAE CANTABRIGIENSI, Augustissimo Literarum Sacrario, Haec Filii Sui, IOSEPHI MEDI, S. T. B.
Collegii CHRISTI aliquando Socii, foreign Auro contra non cara, Omni aestimio digna, Sed & omni majora, In honoris & Debitae observantiae Testimonium
L.M.Q. D.D. Iohannes Worthingtonus.
The General PREFACE.
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