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Epistle to a Friend Concerning Poetry (1700) and the Essay on Heroic Poetry (second edition, 1697) by Samuel Wesley
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Fierce with a _thousand Throats_, a _thousand Hands_! 1080
_Rescue_ once more thy _Trojans sacred Line_ }
From _slavish Chains_, so shall thy _Temples_ shine }
With _Stars_, and all _Elysium_ shall be _thine_. }

_FINIS._


FOOTNOTES:

[1] _Vide Edda Samundi--apud Sheringham, de Gentis Anglorum
Origine, pag._ 28, 29.

_Hiaelp beiter eitt eun thad thier hialpa mun
Vid Sikum og Sottum goiru allum,
Thad kenn eg aunad er thorfa Ita
Syner their ed vilia lakner lisfa._
[Transcriber's Note: extremely difficult to read in the original.
Transcription may not be accurate.]

I know your only Help, the pow'rful Charm
That aids in ev'ery Grief and every Harm,
I know the Leaches Craft, and what they need
Who Doctors in that Noble Art proceed.

[2] the _Vide_ British Chronicle, _and_ Taliessin's _Prophecies_;

Prryff fard l'yffred in ydwyfi i Elphin
Am gwalad gynifio [indecipherable] Goribbin.
Ionas ddewn am golwis Merddin
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