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Monsieur Bossu's Treatise, &c.
Chap. XVIII.
Author and first Model of them, 'tis requisite we rightly comprehend his Allegories, and penetrate into the Moral and Physical Truths of the Fable, with which his Poems are so full.
As little insight as I have in these Matters; yet I fansie, I have said enough to explain what a Fable is, and to demonstrate the Idea I have of the Nature of the Epick Poem.
The End of the first Book
Monsieur
