Category: PART III

[note]This title does not appear in 1653, though the change of poetic form pretty clearly signals the start of a new poem. [/note] Some will a line or two from Horace take,[note]Some will a line or two from Horace take,] Some take a Line, or two of Horace Wit, 1653 [/note] And pick his fancies,…

As birds to hatch their young ones sit i’th’spring,[note]ones sit i’th’spring,] do sit in Spring, 1653 [/note] So do some ages[note]So do some ages] Some Ages severall 1653 [/note] broods of poets bring, Which to the world in verse do sweetly sing. And as their notes not art but Nature taught,[note]And as their notes not…

[note]In 1653, there is only a paragraph break rather than the beginning of a new (separately titled) letter. [/note] I desire all those which read this part of my book to consider that it is thick of fancies, and therefore requires the more study. But if they understand them not,[note]them not,] not, 1653 [/note] I…

There is no spirit frights me so much as poet’s satyrs[note]The word “satyrs” could also have been modernized, perhaps, as “satires.” [/note] and their fairy wits, which are so subtle, airy, and nimble, that[note]that] as 1653, 1664 [/note] they pass through very small crevices and crannies[note]very small crevices and crannies] every small Crevise, and Cranie…