——My Books are read in every place,
And when Licinius, and Messala's high
Rich Marble Towers in ruin'd Dust shall lie,
I shall be read, and Strangers every where,
Shall to their farthest Homes my Verses bear.
Also Lucan, Lib. 9. of his own Verse, and Cæsar's Victory at Pharsalia, writeth thus;
O great and sacred Work of Poesie!
Thou freest from Fate, and giv'st Eternity
To mortal Wights; but Cæsar envy not
Their living Names; if Roman Muses ought