Onorate l’altissimo poeta.
So Chiabrera, Canz. Eroiche. 32.

Onorando l’altissimo poeta.

v. 79. Of semblance neither sorrowful nor glad.]

She nas to sober ne to glad.

Chaucer’s Dream.

v. 90. The Monarch of sublimest song.] Homer.

v. 100. Fitter left untold.]

Che’l tacere e bello,
So our Poet, in Canzone 14.

La vide in parte che’l tacere e bello,
Ruccellai, Le Api, 789.

Ch’a dire e brutto ed a tacerlo e bello
And Bembo,