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Jones, Inigo, 1573-1652; Charleton, Walter, 1619-1707; Webb, John, 1611-1672 / The most notable antiquity of Great Britain, vulgarly called Stone-Heng, on Salisbury Plain, restored, by Inigo Jones ... To which are added, the Chorea gigantum, or Stone-Heng restored to the Danes, by Doctor Charleton; and Mr. Webb’s Vindication of Stone-Heng restored, in answer to Dr. Charleton’s reflections; with observations upon the orders and rules of architecture in use among the ancient Romans. Before the whole are prefixed, certain memoirs relating to the life of Inigo Jones; with his effigies, engrav’d by Hollar; as also Dr. Charleton’s, by P. Lombart; and four new views of Stone-Heng, in its present situation: with above twenty other copper-plates, and a compleat index to the entire collection
(1725)
[Dedication] To my worthy friend, Dr. Charleton
To my Worthy FRIEND,
Dr. CHARLETON,
On his clear Difcovery of S T 0 N E- H E N G
to have been a DAN ISH Court Royal, for
the Eletion of KINGS, and not a Roman
Temple, as fuppofed by Mr. Inigo Jones.
0 W much obliging is Your Learned Care!
Still bufy to preferve, or to repair;
Which unto Men not only Life can give,
But makes their Monuments themfelves to live.
Health comes to them by Your immortal Aim,
And to theirAdions Truth, the Health of Fame.
The fickly World feems thus Reflor'd by Thee;
Whilft thy large Soul, like its Eternity,
On wafting Time atchieves new Vidories,
Which buried now in its own Ruins lies.
Nor wert thou to engage with Time alone;
But, that which kept the Wonder more unknown,
Mens Errors; which are fill the greateft Crime,
And more defiroy the Truth of Things, than Time.
For, if unskilful Hands too rafhly rake
In antique Rubbifh, every bold Miftake
B Hides
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