76 being made famous by many men's former works, and also 77 furthest from the danger of envy and suspicion of present
suspicion > [suspicion of political bias]
78 time. In which I have followed all the antique poets
antique > ancient (esp. of ancient Greece and Rome)
79 historical, first Homer who, in the persons of Agamemnon 80 and Ulysses, has ensampled a good governor and a virtuous
ensampled > exemplified
81 man: the one in his Iliad, the other in his Odyssey; then 82 Virgil, whose like intention was to do in the person of
like > similar
83 Aeneas; after him, Ariosto comprised them both in his
Aeneas > (Central character of Virgil's Aeneid)
Ariosto > (Lodovico Ariosto, 1474-1533, Italian poet)