PREFACE TO THE FABLES 1700

"- - it must be owned that supposing verses are never so beautiful or pleasing, yet if they contain anything which shocks religion or good manners, they are at best what Horace says of good numbers with­

out good sense, versus inopes rerum, mugaequis canorae."

K e r II. p. 251. Horace, A.P. 322.

"Chaucer was likewise an astrologer, as were, Virgil, Horace, Persius, and M a n lius."

Ker II. p. 254.

(In speaking of Chaucer),

"As he knew what to say, so he knows also where to leave off; a consistence which is practiced by few writers, and scareely by any of the ancients, excepting Virgil and Horace."

Ker II. p. 258.

"We must be children before we grow men. There was an Ennius, and in process of time, a Lueilius, and a Lucretius, before Virgil and Horace."

Ker II. p. 259..

(In remarking that Henry IV "favored" Chaucer),

"Augustus had given him the example, by the advice of Maecenas, who recommended Virgil and Horace to him; -

Ker II. p. 260.

"If the first end of a writer be to be under­

stood, then as his language grows obsolete, his thoughts must grow obseure:

Multa renascentur quae nunc cecidere; cadentque Quae nunc sunt in honore vocabula, si volet usus, Quern penes arbitrium est et just et norma loquendi."

Ker II p. Horace A.P. 70-2.

"those who have written commentaries on those poets, or on Horace, Juvenal, and Martial, have explained some vices, which frithout their in­

terpretation had been unknown to modern times."

Ker II. p. 373.

»_ _ Demetri, teque Tigelli

Discripulorum inter jubeo plorare cathedrasi."

Ker.II* p. 275. Horace, Sat.I.109,91*

"To Her Grace

The Dutchess of Ormond With the Following Poem of

Palaman and Arcite From Chaucer

(1700)

"Even this had been your elegy, which now

Is offer's for your health, the table of my vow."

Noyes p. 751 1* 130.

The "tabula vota" of Horace

Carm. 1.5.13 and Sat.II.1.33

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/%11 Horatian references are to this w o r k /

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