c'.'i'A >- Vi J' . Of the Abbe ck SA D E. 149. 



murmuring of ^he.flear rivulets*, and tells, that rifing early ta 

 hkil the morning rays, he had the fortune to fee two funs rife at 

 the fame moment ; the fun that marks the viciffitude of day 

 and night, and Laura, who at that inftant eclipfed his radiance 

 by her own : the Abbe, with his ufual facility of perverfion, 

 cites this fonnet as a proof that Petrarch ufed frequently to 

 walk the flreets of Avignon before daybreak, to have the plea- 

 fure of feeing his iniftrefs open her windows. 



Box the moft amufing inftance of this fophiftical perverfion 

 of an author's clearefl exprefhons, is to be found in the con- 

 ftrudlion. which is attempfed to be put on the paffage above 

 quoted from the Latin eclogue of Galatea f. 



Carpe iter^qua nodojis impexa capijlris, &c. 



'*■* *t'aite"yVitir way yonder, where you will"" fee the oxen yoked 

 "by the neck, and the watch-dogs guarding the entry of a fmall 

 " hbtife.-^On the other fide of it is the burial-place of Gala- 

 " TEA." This has been ever reckoned as one of the mofl de- 

 cifive teflimonies, that the burial-place of Laura was not in the 

 city of Avignon, but in the country. It was neceffary, there- 

 fore, to take off the force of this flrong piece of evidence. It is 

 '■* admitted,; 



'').'« -jiii ..;: J : .■ 



' ! f hitmr.T". ' :*^:fl catttar naovo, e 'I pianger de gli augelli 

 ,j • j^j J-" /"'l difanno rifentir le iialli, 



, . E 'I mormorar de' liquidi crijlalli 



Gilt per lucidi frefcbi rivi e fnelli, — 

 Con mi fveglio a falutar I' aurora, 

 . .. ,. .., ... ,. H 'i/o/, cb' e/eco; e piii I' altro, ond'- iojui 

 .fi'V '3(\(\l' '9(' T ^^ P""'' '*'"" ahbagliato, e fono ancora: 

 , , r gli ho veduti alcun giarno ambedui 



Levarfi infieme, e 'n un punto e 'n un bora 

 ^el far- le Jlelk, e quejiofparir lui. Son. 183, Pan. 1. 



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