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Matthew Prior - Written In Montaignes Essays. Given To The Duke Of Shrewsbury In France, After The Peace
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Dictate, O mighty judge, what thou hast seen
Of cities and of courts, of books and men,
And deign to let thy servant hold the pen.

Through ages, thus, I may presume to live,
And from the transcript of thy prose receive
What my own short-lived verse can never give.

Thus shall fair Britain, with a gracious smile,
Accept the work, and the instructed isle
For more than treaties made shall bless my toil.

Nor longer hence the Gallic style preferr`d,
Wisdom in English idiom shall be heard,
While Talbot tells the world where Montaigne err`d.
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