!

OF THE

NATURE OF THINGS.

Tranflated into English Verse by
Thomas Creech, A. M. and
Fellow of Wadham College
in OXFORD.

VOLUME II.

Containing the Fifth and Sixth Books.
Explain'd and Illuftrated with Notes
and Animadverfions.

Felix qui potuit rerum cognofcere caufas,
Atque metus omnes, & inexorabile Fatum
Subjecit pedibus, ftrepitumque Acherontis avari.

Virg.

LONDON:

Printed by JOHN MATTHEWs, for GEORGE
SAWBRIDGE, at the Three Fleurs de Lys in
Little Britain. MDCCXIV.

THE

PREFACE.

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AVING in the Preface to the first Volume given the Publick fo full and ample an Account of my Defign, in publifhing thefe Notes and Animadverfions on this English Tranflation of Lucretius, as likewife of the Helps I made ufe of, and of the Method I have obferv'd, in this Undertaking, which I take to be the chief Bufinefs of a Prefacer, I shall not long detain my Reader by Way of Introduction to this fecond Volume, that contains only the two last Books of my Authour; who, having in these two Books treated of a great Variety of noble Subjects, bas afforded me a juft Occafion of fwelling this Volume to almost an equal Number of Sheets with the former, tho' computing the Number of Verfes, it contain but little more than one Third of the whole Poem of Lucretius: The Length however, if I may judge of the Readers Satisfaction in the Perufal, by my own in the compiling, will not, I hope, feem tedious to him; and I flatter my self, that I shall not weary and grow irksome to thofe, whom it has been my principal Study and Defign at once to inftruct and divert.

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