The Epiftle Dedicatory. 
My Lord.n?^ ^re bound, on all occafions to commemorate the Honour^ 
youhave done the Royal Society, by entertaining them in Arundel- 
hoi\(c,min a Princely Colledge/f^r//?^:^ theyremovd from Grefliara^ 
and for endowing them with a rich and un common Library • and for your 
manifold and great merit in the Advancement of Learniug : A part of 
which IS recorded in the hvc\\\wt% of Oxford. 
Tour Incompa^rable Grandfather^ the Renowned Ezt\ Marfhall ofEn* 
gland5a;2<VEaflo/ Arundel WSurrey, was in his time acknowledged 
the Prefident and Fautor of the 'Noblefl Difciplines, and had the Curto* 
fity and Felicity to cotleU many of the mofl conjiderahle Monuments of the 
Primasval Monarchies, and thereby to enrich this K^ngdome with the 
mofl Antient Sculptures, and the mofl Excellent Paintings. And fucb 
tfthefe Monuments, as were proper for the Theater of that Vnwerfityy 
the famout MAI{MOK^A AI{VNDELJANA , yeur Bounty hath 
placed there as in the fittefl Seat to fucceed in the poffejfion of the Re- 
mains of Old Greece and Athens. 
But becaufe the fe Glories are too refplendent for the bajhfulncfj of my 
ProfeJ fljallrefign to the Elogy §f our late Pindar, who^whenthe Oxoni- 
an Theater was firfi folemni^ed, after he had in hisVmAzvic rapture f 
celebrated the Heroical Vertues of your Mofl llluflrious Progenitors ^ 
Dukes Norfolk ; amongfl other great Attributes^] uftly appropriated 
to your Lordjhipjeft us this Memorandum ^ 
. Clarior cmicat ] Tenebrafquc demit Hiftoriac. 
HEN Kiev S.gtnmnns Haercs, Majoribus Poflerifque partitur 
Sublirais Columcn domus ; Largus Influxura bifidum,vctatquc 
Antiquitati pandit lumen obfcurx Wis Praeteritum dee{Te,vel his Futurum. 
Conquer or s ^Emperors, and Ground Heads ^ even when they have per- 
formed things truly great and worthy of remjpn, have fometimes paffed 
over the Stage as in a Dumb Sbewjcarcely mention d in any Authentick 
Hiftory : But the Mufes do never forget to conftcrate their Votaries^ 
Philofophers 5 and their own Patrons, And good Lctttrs and Arts 
are mafre laflingthan Marbles, And they^ who recover Life to the be^ 
Literature i who reflore, and preferve^ and excite Arts^ and who give a 
longer duration to the mo ^ lading Monuments I hefe may Jufily claim 
for themfelves the fairefi and mofi durable Monument ^in theperfuafton of^ 
My LORD, 
Your Lordfliips 
Very Humble and Obedient Servant 
Henry Oldenburg Soc^ Keg^ Spirit. 
London, 
