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NOTES

TO THE

BATTLE OF THE FROGS AND MICE.

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Note¹, p. 45.] Awake my song.

Musa, tu che cantasti i fatti egregi
Del Re de Topi e de le Rane antiche,
Si che ne sono ancor fioriti e fregi
La per le piagge d'Elicona apriche.
Tassoni Secchia Rapita, c. v, s. 23.

 

Muse, who didst sing the wondrous exploits done
By the stout king of Mice, and Frogs of yore,
Whence mid the sunny lawns of Helicon
Still fresh they bloom, and deckt with flowerets o'er.—

 

Note², p. 45.]

And shamed in might the giant's earth-born brood.

Non tantos motus, nec tam memorabile bellum,
Mæonius quondam sublimi carmine vates
Lusit; ubi totam strepituque armisque paludem
Miscuit: hic (visu miserabile!) corpora muram.