608 LEAVES THEY HAVE TOUCHED. 



beloved Tasso. How himself took it, I can ; for lie was teard to 

 say (his great ' Jerusalem' being then an embryo) he fiared no man 

 hut Gamoens. Notwithstanding which he bestowed a sonnet in his 

 praise. But, admitting the Tuscan superior ; — yet, as he with some 

 anger of Guarini, when he saw, by the unquestionable verdict of all 

 Italy, so famous a laureate as himself, by that man's Pastor Fide 

 outstripped in the dramatic way of poetry, se non havuto visto il mio 

 Aminta (because indeed the younger, for a lift in this kind, was 

 beholding to the elder) : — So, and for the same cause, might my 

 Portingal (Portiiguese) have retorted upon him with reference to his 

 own epic way. — If he had not seen my Lusiad, he had not excelled it. 

 Since then I find Horace in the days of old held himself accountable 

 to his potent friend Lollio for the profits of those vacant hours which 

 he passed in his proper villa, whilst Lollio lay ledger in Rome about 

 that which was the great domestic glory of the Roman nobility of 

 those times : 



Trojani belli Scriptorem, Maxime Lolli, 



Dum tu declamas Romse, Proeneste relegi. 



Whilst thou, great Lollio, in Rome dost plead, 



I, in Prseneste, have all Homer read. — (Hor. 1, 3. Ep. 2) 



How much more obliged am / to bring unto your Lordship this 

 Treasure- trove, which, as to the second life, or rather being, it hath 

 from me in the English tongue, is so truly a native of Yorkshire, 

 and holding of your Lordship, that from the hour I began it, to the 

 end thereof, I slept not once out of these walls % And if the same 

 Horace proceed : 



Qui, quid sit pulchrum, quid turpe, quid utile, quid non, 

 Plenius ac melius Chrysippo et Crantore, dicit. 

 Who what is right, what not, what brave, what base, 

 Clearer and better than the Stoics, says — 



"Whether this poet also, however disfigured in the translating, yet 

 still retaining the old materials, both political and moral, on a truer 

 and more modern frame of story and geogi-aphy than that of Homer 

 — et quamvis plebeio tectus amictu, Indocilis privata loqui, — shall 

 not be valuable on the like account, I appeal to your Lordship, whose 

 devoted (since he turned Englishman) he is, by the title I have 

 already mentioned, and by as many more, as I am, my Lord, your 

 Lordship's humble servant, Richard Fanshaw. From your Lordship's 

 Park of Tankersley, May 1, 1655." The book is printed throughout 

 exactly in. the style of the first folio Shakspeare, with heavy and worn 



