_JOSHUA SYLVESTER_.


_Joshua Sylvester_, a very eminent Translator of his time, especially
of the Divine _Du Bartus_, whose six days work of Creation, gain'd him
an immortal Fame, having had many great Admirers even to these days,
being usher'd into the world by the chiefest Wits of that Age; amongst
others, the most accomplisht Mr. _Benjamin Johnson_ thus wrote of him.

If to admire, were to commend my Praise
might then both thee, thy work and merit raise;
But, as it is (the Child of Ignorance
And utter stranger to all Ayr of _France_)
How can I speak of thy great pains, but err;
Since they can only judge that can confer?
Behold! the reverend shade of _Bartus_ stands
Before my thought and (in thy right) commands
That to the world I publish, for him, this:
_Bartus doth with thy_ English _now were his_,
So well in that are his Inventions wrought,
As his will now be the _Translation_ thought,
Thine the Original; and _France_ shall boast
No more those Maiden-Glories she hath lost.

He hath also translated several other Works of _Du Bartus_; namely,
_Eden_, the _Deceipt_, the _Furies_, the _Handicrafts_, the _Ark_,
_Babylon_, the _Colonies_, the _Columns_, the _Fathers_, _Jonas_,
_Urania_, _Triumph of Faith_, _Miracle of Peace_, the _Vocation_, the