nine lines beginning:
O poggi, o valli, &c.
to 'cura', are expressed with vigour and chastity.


CANZ. 9.
Daquel di innanzi a me medesmo piacqui,
Empiendo d'un pensier' alto, e soave
Quel core, "ond' hanno i begli occhi la chiave."

Note. O that the Pope would take these eternal keys, which so for ever
turn the bolts on the finest passages of true passion!


VOL. II.

CANZ. 1. Che debb' io far? &c.

Very good; but not equal, I think, to Canzone 2,

Amor, se vuoi ch' i' torni, &c.

though less faulty. With the omission of half-a-dozen conceits and
Petrarchisms of 'hooks, baits, flames,' and 'torches', this second
canzone is a bold and impassioned lyric, and leaves no doubt in my mind
of Petrarch's having possessed a true poetic genius.
'Utinam deleri possint sequentia':--

L. 17-19.
--e la soave fiamma