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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Sir John Harington (1560-1612) was a godson of Queen Elizabeth and
the author of "Orlando Furioso in English Heroical Verse", but a
man of singularly unsuccessful career, and with a reputation for
folly and indiscretion. One such indiscretion - the agreement to
act as guarantor for the debt of an uncle - had landed him
temporarily in the Tower of London in 1603, the year of James I's
accession to the throne. The Sixth Book of Virgil's "Aeneid" -
clearly an attempt to win the new sovereign's favour - was
presented to the King the following year, for his son Prince Henry,
the ten-year-old heir apparent. The manuscript of this work, long
thought to be lost, is here published for the first time. The
manuscripts consist of 162 neatly written pages, containing an
epistle to the King, parallel English and Latin texts (the latter
added, after the first 8 lines, by a scribe), marginal explanatory
notes, and a "comment" in seven chapters.
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