Capitolo 40
but as it is in the original one, I pick him/it up not to have been void other
but the poesy of an ax that was consecrate to Minerva, and it was
thought to be the same that Epeuses used than in the building of the
Horse of Trojan; what a suggestion is of which I will go away to the consideration
the critics. I am proper to think that the poesy was written
originally on the ax as those that our modern cutlers
writes on their knives; and what, therefore, the poesy still
you stay in his/her ancient form, although the same ax is lost.
You/he/she can be said that the pipe of the shepherd is full of music, for him it is
composed of nine different son-in-laws of verses that from them a lot
lengths resemble to the nine stops of the old musical tool that
it is likewise the subject of the poem.
The altar is written with the epitaph of Troilus his/her child of
Hecuba; what, by the way it makes me believe, that these false pieces
some intelligence is very more ancient than the authors to whom they is
it generally attributed; I will be never convinced, at least that so excellent
a writer as Theocritus you/he/she would be been able to be the author of some so simple
jobs.
It was impossible for a man to succeed in these shows that were
not some kind of painter, or at least a draftsman. He was of all before
to draw the contour of the subject that him intended to write on,
and after it suits the description for the figure of his/her subject.
The poetry was to contract or to swell himself/herself/themselves according to the soil
in that you/he/she was thrown. In a word, the verses would be made to come the cramps to, or
extended to the dimensions of the frame that it was prepared for them;
and to suffer the fate of those people that the tyrant Procrustes
you lodge in his/her iron bed: if theirs were too much courts him extended,
them on a framework; and if theirs were too much long, cut away a part of
their legs, cultivate them they were all right the couch for which he had prepared
them.
The Mr. Dryden suggests to this obsolete kind of the intelligence in the one of the