Ovidius exulans or Ovid travestieas Leander to Hero: Laodameia to Protesilaus: Hero to Leander: Penelope to Ulysses: In English Burlesque |
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To his friend the Author.
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To his friend the Author.
Methinke Leander might as well rehearseSuch Rimes as these as Ovid's sweeter Verse.
Why must a Carthaginian Dame pray tell
Or Asian Barbar versify so well?
Or what decorum's that to make one speak
Good Latine to th'good man a merry Greek?
Tis like our Poets now who make all say
(What Countrey men so e're) English i'th' Play.
The donor for but two-pence in a blank.
Your verse more natural is, I judge from hence,
They find out sence to th'Rhimes, you Rhimes to th'sence.
S. D.
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