“
Consider it warly, reid oftar than anys;
Weill at a blenk sle poetry nocht tane is.
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― The Aeneid, Volume 1: Introduction, Books I - VIII
― The Aeneid, Volume 1: Introduction, Books I - VIII
“
Fra banc to banc, fra wod to wod, I rin
Ourhailit with my feble fantasie,
Lyk til a leif that fallis from a trie
Or til a reid ourblawin with the wind.
Twa gods gyds me: the ane of tham is blind,
Ye, and a bairn brocht up in vanitie;
The nixt a wyf ingenrit of the se,
And lichter nor a dauphin with hir fin.
Unhappie is the man for evirmair
That teils the sand and sawis in the aire;
Bot twyse unhappier is he, I lairn,
That feidis in his hairt a mad desyre,
And follows on a woman throw t
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