[263] Cor. 13. 1
[264] Velè the Founder of the Convent.
[OF ROPALIC]
or Gradual Verses, Etc.
Mens mea sublimes rationes præmeditatur.
TRACT VII
Sir,
Though I may justly allow a good intention in this Poem presented unto you, yet I must needs confess, I have no affection for it; as being utterly averse from all affectation in Poetry, which either restrains the phancy, or fetters the invention to any strict disposure of words. A poem of this nature is to be found in Ausonius beginning thus,