All very accurate, you must allow,

And Epic, if plain truth should prove no bar;

For I have drawn much less with a long bow

Than my forerunners. Carelessly I sing,

But Phoebus lends me now and then a string,

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With which I still can harp, and carp, and fiddle.

What further hath befallen or may befall

The hero of this grand poetic riddle,

I by and by may tell you, if at all: