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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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Sebach Pob Brenmam geilw Taliesin.
Gwea a gasgle elud Tra feyna bud,
Gwererbin didd brawd in chospo i gnawd,
Gwae ni cheidw i geil ag if yufug eil,
Gwae in cheidw i ddefend chog bleiddna.
[Transcriber's Note: extremely difficult to read in the original.
Transcription may not be accurate.]

Me _Elphin_ now his Bard may justly boast
Who long of old amid the Fire-wing'd Host:
Once _Merlin_ was I call'd, well known to Fame,
Whom future Kings shall _Taliessin_ name.
Wo to the Wretch who Wealth by Rapine gains,
And wo to him who Fasts and Pray'rs refrains;
Wo to the Shepherds who their Flocks betray,
And will not drive the _Ravish_ Wolves away.

[3] _Olli sedaro rescondit corde Latinus._ Virg.

[4] _Mr._ Dryden's _Riddle, in his Preface to_ Virgil.

[5] _This was observ'd before Mr._ Le Clerc _was born. Vide_ Song of the
Well, _Num._ 21. 17.

[Hebrew text]

_Vide_ Psal. 80, & 81. _Where some Verses have Treble, where Quadruple
Rhimes, four in one Verse._

[6] Ode 1. [Greek: indecipherable]
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