Theatrum Poetarum. 1675. Preface. The Modern Poets, p. 194.
THOMAS OTWAY, 1680
(1652-1685)
In ages past (when will those times renew?),
When empires flourish’d, so did poets too.
When great Augustus the world’s empire held,
Horace and Ovid’s happy verse excell’d.
Ovid’s soft genius, and his tender arts
Of moving Nature, melted hardest hearts.
It did th’ imperial beauty, Julia, move