130 EXAMINATION of an HISTORICAL HTPOTHESIS 



flinctly the following fonnet, of which he took a fair trail- 

 fcript * : 



£>ui ripofan quei cajle efelici ojfa 

 Di quella alma gentile e fola in terra. 

 AJpro't dur fajfo hor ben teco haifoterra 

 El vero honor lafama e belta fcojfa. 

 Morte ha del verde Lauro fvelta e mo [fa 

 Frefca radice, e il premio de mia guerra 

 Di quattro Ivjlri j e piu fe anchor non err a 

 Mio penfer trijlo ; e il chiude in pocha foff'a. 

 Felice pianta : in horgo de Avignone 

 Nacque e mori : e qui con ellajace 

 La penna, eljlil, Vinchiojlro e la ragione. 

 delicate membra, viva face 

 Che anchor me cuoci e Jlruggi, inginocchione 

 Ciafcun preghi il Sign or te accepti in pace. 



• This 



* The fonnet is here given exactly, as to orthography and pun&uation. from the 

 copy which the Abbe de Sade fays he took from the original. 



Thus almoft literally tranflated : 



Here now repofe thofe chafte, thofe bleft remains 

 Of that molt gentle fpirit, fole in earth ! 

 Harm monumental ftone, that here confin'ft 

 True honour, fame and beauty, all o'erthrown ! 

 Death has deftroy'd that Laurel green, and torrt 

 Its tender roots ; and all the noble meed 

 Of my long warfare, pairing (if aright 

 My melancholy reckoning holds) four luftres. 

 O happy plant ! Avignon's favour'd foil 

 Has feen thee fpring and die; — and here with thee 

 ' Thy poet's pen, and mufe, and genius lies. 

 O lovely, beauteous limbs ! O fire divine, 

 That even in death haft power to melt the foul ! 

 Heaven be thy portion, peace with God on high ! 



