40 PREFACE. 



whose style and execution ought not to affect the intrinsic 

 merits of the Cynegeticus. 



Many classical quotations have been introduced in the 

 notes to elucidate and enliven the text ; some in their original 

 language, others in the English tongue. Where the fomier 

 appeared more illustrative and expressive, it has been retained. 

 The latter has been occasionally substituted, where the passages 

 selected conveyed information acceptable to an English courser, 

 or a version of acknowledged merit faithfully conveyed the 

 sense of the original. And in a few instances the original and 

 translation have been introduced in juxta-position, to enable 

 the reader to judge of their respective excellencies. To this 

 too I have been '' moved," as Wase very nicely observes, by 

 a wish that the quotations from the dead languages " may be 

 understood with ease, and the delight of attending to the 

 elegancies in them rather doubled than intermitted, by adjoyn- 

 ing a translation in equal consort:" "wherein," as he adds, 

 *' I shall have pleased either those that have an affection to 

 see our language enriched with the wit of former ages ; or 

 on the other side, even those men whose inclinations do 

 rather move to look upon the native beauties of every 

 piece." 



The references to antiquity, which have imperceptibly in- 

 Piinii Trajf. crcased to some extent, — " nee dubitamus multa esse, quae et 



Vespas. 



nos praeterierint, homines enim sumus, et occupati officiis," — 



have not been introduced for the sake of ostentatious display 



of knowledge of Greek and Latin literature, like those 



Young's Love Wlio, for renown, on scraps of learning dote, 



of lame, Sat. i. j^^^ ^^^^^^ ^j^^^ ^^.^^^ immortal as they quote. 



