Poems, and phancies written By the Thrice Noble, Illustrious, And Excellent Princess The Lady Marchioness of Newcastle [i.e. Margaret Cavendish]. The Second Impression, much Altered and Corrected |
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Upon the same Subject.
Some will a Line or two from Horace take,And pick his Fancies, wch their own they make;
And some of Homer, Virgil, Ovid sweet,
Will steal, and make them in their Books to meet,
Yet make them not in their right Shapes appear,
But like as Spirits in dark Shades to err:
Thus as Magicians Spirit-troublers they're,
And may the Name of Poet-Juglers bear,
Which th'Ignorant by Sorcery delude,
Shewing false Glasses to the Multitude,
And with a small and undiscerned Hair,
Do pull great Truth out of her place she were:
These should by th'Poets Laws be Hang'd, and so
Into the Hell of Condemnation go.
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