“If thine own single honour move not thee,
“And the high deeds which thou art called to do,
“Wherefore defraud thy fair posterity? &c.”
Stanza lx. lines 1, 2, 3.
Here, again, we have Virgil speaking as Mercury
Si te nulla movet tantarum gloria rerum,
Nec super ipse tuâ moliris laude laborem,
Ascanium surgentem et spes hæredis Iuli
Respice.
For she had led
A longer life than ever mortal wight,
Than Hecuba or she in Cuma bred.
Stanza lxxiii. lines 4, 5, 6.
These lines seem to be an imitation of two hendecasyllabic verses; where found I do not recollect.
Quædam segnior Hectoris parente,
Cumææ soror, ut puto Sibyllæ.
But now the ring interpreted the book,
Which secrets, hid for many ages, taught.
Stanza lxxiv. lines 3 and 4.
The original of these lines, is a very slight variation of Petrarch’s
Venendo in terra a interpretar le carte,
Ch’ avean molt’ anni già celato il vero.
