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First, sir, though the ungentleness of your stile, and Expressions, do sufficiently testifie that neither the Muses, nor Graces assisted at your Birth, yet I hope you are not such an enemy to numbers, to think poetry Superstitious, and therefore to be turn'd with Imagery out of the Church. If you do, you will compell me to call Nazianzen in to my Ayde; who, besides his writing of a Play (if Erasmus have not misnumbred them) hath written thirty thousand Heroick, Jambick, Hendecasyllable, Elegiack, and other verses. Tertullian, Sir, you know hath confuted Marcion in Verse; and Synesius thought it as great a glory to be called a good Poet, as some who wrote in prose did to be called fathers of the Church. I wil not repeat a peece of Prosper to you nor tel you what S. Austin hath said in the praif of Virgil. To be a Cretian Prophet, that is in your sense, a lying Poet, but in al theirs who understand the first C. of Titus, an Evil Beast, and a falfe Prophet ) Is I confesse a crime. |
First, sir, though the ungentleness of your style, and Expressions, do sufficiently testify that neither the Muses, nor Graces assisted At your Birth, yet I hope you Are not such an enemy to numbers, to think poetry Superstitious, and Therefore to be turned with Imagery out of the Church. If you do, you will compel me to call Nazianzen in to my Aid; who, beside his writing of a Play (if Erasmus have not misnumbred them) hath written thirty thousand Heroic, Jambok, Hendecasyllable, Elegiac, and other Verses. Tertullian, Sir, you know hath confuted Marcion in Verse; and Synesius Thought it as great a glory to be called a good Poet, as Some who wrote in prose did to be called Father's of the Church. I will not repeat a piece of Prosper to you nor tell you what S. Austin hath said in the praif of Virgil. To be a Cretian Prophet, that is in your sense, a lying Poet, but in all theirs who understand the First C. of Titus, an Evil Beast, and a false Prophet) Is I confess a crime. |
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