he will now translate Vondel, the Dutch Shakspeare, and
Gysbert van Amsteli
will easily be accommodated to our stage in its present state; and I presume he saw the Dutch poem, where the love of Pyramus and Thisbe is compared to the passion of Christ; also the love of Lucifer for Eve, and other varieties of Low Country literature.
No doubt you will think me crazed to talk of such things, but they are all in black and white and good repute on the banks of every canal from Amsterdam to Alkmaar.
Yours ever,
B.
My poesy is in the hands of its various publishers; but the
Hints from Horace
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