Nevv epistles of Mounsieur de Balzac. Translated out of French into English, by Sr. Richard Baker Knight. Being the second and third volumes
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- Nevv epistles of Mounsieur de Balzac. Translated out of French into English, by Sr. Richard Baker Knight. Being the second and third volumes
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- Balzac, Jean-Louis Guez, seigneur de, 1597-1654.
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- London :: Printed by T. Cotes [and John Dawson] for Fra. Eglesfield, Iohn Crooke, and Rich. Serger, and are to be sold at the Gray-hound in Pauls Chuch-yard [sic],
- 1638.
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Page 85
Mitigat; & per quam non fera turba sumus?
Vindicat hāc sibi Thusca charis, sibi musa latina,
Nec minus esse suam, Graius Apollo velit.
Hanc sophiae Gens sancta colit, dat jura disertis,
Princeps Grāmaticas temperat una Tribus.
Scilicet ut distent specioso sana tumore
Vnascit, & fractis verba sonora modis.
Judicat urbano quid sit sale tingere ludos,
Et quid inhumano figere dente notas.
Novit ab agresti secernere plectra cicuta,
Vos{que} sacri vates non sociare malis.
Ergo quid infidi petitis suffragia vulgi?
Qui dve Palatinus quaeritur arte favor?
Quae canitis vivent, si docta probaverit auris,
Et dabitur vestris versibus esse bonos.
At si quando canat, taceas vel mascula Sappho,
Te meliùs salvo nostra pudore canit.