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So A?ch<tohg\&Afttc£ Lih. 1. Cap, ill
iD. Doff, proves it. Neither is it misliked by * Tetavim. *Scaliger hath
Temp. 1.2. c. fairly taught us otherwise,who makes each Pritaneia to rule
*Deemend. 3^ daie?,which none ever are to have done, except the sirst
Tera.lib.i. ' foure.
CAP. X tji
De iragcedia, Satyra3 & Comxiia.
cVd'CT' T^'IS ta^ f°rgrsnte^ among the Ancients, that Homer who
£p^a^r-1 lived a 907 years besore Christ, was the sirft that taught
Aruud.p. 9^. b Te?.y.x.as M^c,to speak in Tragredie;comprehending greac
b Hermog.de and weighty matters in sew words and very concisely5being
Eloq. Merh. more large & usirig circumlocution in matter* of lessecon-
£u5/{a!,'c'-33, sequence, which Hamogenes acknowledges to be thepro-
Praf!ad llsad P£rty os aTragcedian.This foundation being laid,sollowing
e Tra dc. de ages ftill built (though rudely) a ftrufture to fmall perfefti-
Trag. &Co-on. Nam s oft Wius tale tantm% documntMn,&t, faies c Venau
Terencicfs ^or a^ter 1 ^mer ^ tne ^'at^s nad reprefented a Tragce-
dy, by the Odyjses a Como£dy,moft ingenious imitators took
those Poems and set them in order}& divided them,which ac
that time were inconsiderareIy,& without judgement Wric-
ten,smpoIissit5&in the firft rudiments not fo neat and trim,
as in processe of time they were made. For Poefy was a greac
while in her minority, and very rude, after the firft publish-
d Marmo. A- j„g 0f plaies.For we fee little or nothing of ds«far/'o«,the firft
TTsdd &cl Comoedian,worth our time:fome few verfes only,& fo few,
Pratfixa'eti-' as may but witneffefuch an Author. The originall of the
am Arifloph. word Comoedy is fuppofed to be taken from divers reafons:
<&Xkuij.u.£. Firft, becaufe in their revelling, kept in honour toBacchtts,
they fung them,8c fo it may be derived from nap©- ,comme[-
sSch.in Nazi [atie;e 'xa pai&v fynisymg/$ *JN^, to fing 6afely
utel.e.p. 106. at t;le CL!p 3ccond!y from xa^fkep; because when any of
the ^m'c^husbandmen had been injured, it was the cuftome
(as before hath been fpokeojfor the party abu(cd,to come in
the
iD. Doff, proves it. Neither is it misliked by * Tetavim. *Scaliger hath
Temp. 1.2. c. fairly taught us otherwise,who makes each Pritaneia to rule
*Deemend. 3^ daie?,which none ever are to have done, except the sirst
Tera.lib.i. ' foure.
CAP. X tji
De iragcedia, Satyra3 & Comxiia.
cVd'CT' T^'IS ta^ f°rgrsnte^ among the Ancients, that Homer who
£p^a^r-1 lived a 907 years besore Christ, was the sirft that taught
Aruud.p. 9^. b Te?.y.x.as M^c,to speak in Tragredie;comprehending greac
b Hermog.de and weighty matters in sew words and very concisely5being
Eloq. Merh. more large & usirig circumlocution in matter* of lessecon-
£u5/{a!,'c'-33, sequence, which Hamogenes acknowledges to be thepro-
Praf!ad llsad P£rty os aTragcedian.This foundation being laid,sollowing
e Tra dc. de ages ftill built (though rudely) a ftrufture to fmall perfefti-
Trag. &Co-on. Nam s oft Wius tale tantm% documntMn,&t, faies c Venau
Terencicfs ^or a^ter 1 ^mer ^ tne ^'at^s nad reprefented a Tragce-
dy, by the Odyjses a Como£dy,moft ingenious imitators took
those Poems and set them in order}& divided them,which ac
that time were inconsiderareIy,& without judgement Wric-
ten,smpoIissit5&in the firft rudiments not fo neat and trim,
as in processe of time they were made. For Poefy was a greac
while in her minority, and very rude, after the firft publish-
d Marmo. A- j„g 0f plaies.For we fee little or nothing of ds«far/'o«,the firft
TTsdd &cl Comoedian,worth our time:fome few verfes only,& fo few,
Pratfixa'eti-' as may but witneffefuch an Author. The originall of the
am Arifloph. word Comoedy is fuppofed to be taken from divers reafons:
<&Xkuij.u.£. Firft, becaufe in their revelling, kept in honour toBacchtts,
they fung them,8c fo it may be derived from nap©- ,comme[-
sSch.in Nazi [atie;e 'xa pai&v fynisymg/$ *JN^, to fing 6afely
utel.e.p. 106. at t;le CL!p 3ccond!y from xa^fkep; because when any of
the ^m'c^husbandmen had been injured, it was the cuftome
(as before hath been fpokeojfor the party abu(cd,to come in
the