134 EXAMINATION of an HISTORICAL HTPOTHESIS 



In the 37th fonnet of the fecond Part, Petrarch, addrefling 

 himfelf to the fpirit of Laura, thus exprefles himfelf : 



Mir a Ugranfaffb donde Sorga nafce, 

 E vedravi un che fol tra Per be e Vacque 

 Di tua memoria e di dolor Ji pafce : 



Ove giace 7 tuo albergo e dove nacque 

 ll nojlro amor. 



M Behold," fays he, " yonder great rock from whence the Sorga 

 " fprings, and there thou wilt fee a folitary being, who, amidft 

 " the green fields and ftreams, feeds on thy remembrance and 

 " on his own forrows. 'Twas there thy habitation lay ; and 



" there our loves began.'' 



In the 155th, fonnet of the ift Part, ( Almo Sol,), the poet, ad- 

 drefling himfelf to the fun, complains, that when his light is with- 

 drawn, and the night comes on, he is deprived of what he mod 

 delights in, the fhadow that falls from that low hill, " where 

 *' fparkles that fweet fire ;. where from a flender twig the beau- 

 " teous laurel grew ;" and he laments, that the darknefs hides from 

 his eyes'Sthap bleffed fpot, where,, wi.th its miftrefs, his heart 

 " for ever dwells." 



Ofole, 



— Fuggendo mi toi quel ch" 1 V piu bramo :. 



V ombra che cade da quell ' umil colle, 

 Ove sfavilla il tnio foave fuoco, 

 Ove ' i [gran laurofu picciola verga ; 



Crefce?ido, mentr'' io parlo ; a gli occhi tolle 



La dolce villa del beatodoco, 



■ 

 Ove '/ mio cor. con la fua donna alherga. 



So, in the 40th fbiibet of thevd Part, the poet fays, 



£>uella per cui con Sorga ho cangiat'' Arno^ — 



