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OF THIS

TRANSLATION,

And of the

Use of Poetry,

BY

Edm. Waller Esq.

ROme was not better by her Horace taught,
Than we are here, to comprehend his thought
The Poet writ to Noble Piso, there,
A Noble Piso do's instruct us here,
Gives us a pattern in his flowing Stile,
And with rich Precepts do's oblige our Isle,
Brittain, whose Genious is in Verse exprest
Bold and sublime, but negligently drest;

Horace