{41} In “Love’s Labour’s Lost” a resemblance has been fancied between this passage and Rosalind’s description of Biron, and the jest:— “Which his fair tongue—conceit’s expositor— Delivers in such apt and gracious words, That agéd ears play truant at his tables, And younger hearings are quite ravishéd, So sweet and voluble is his discourse.” {42} Virgil’s “Æneid,” Book xii.:— “And shall this ground fainthearted dastard Turnus flying view? Is it so vile a thing to die?” (Phaer’s Translation [1573].) {43} _Instances of the power of the Poet’s work_. {44} _Defectuous_. This word, from the French “defectueux,” is used twice in the “Apologie for Poetrie.” {45} § II. _The_ PARTS _of Poetry_. {46} _Can Pastoral be condemned_? {47} The close of Virgil’s seventh Eclogue—Thyrsis was vanquished, and Corydon crowned with lasting glory. {48} _Or Elegiac_? {49} _Or Iambic_? _or Satiric_? {50} From the first Satire of Persius, line 116, in a description of Homer’s satire: “Omne vafer vitium ridenti Flaccus amico Tangit, et admissus circum præcordia ludit,” &c. Shrewd Flaccus touches each vice in his laughing friend. Dryden thus translated the whole passage:— “Unlike in method, with concealed design Did crafty Horace his low numbers join; And, with a sly insinuating grace Laughed at his friend, and looked him in the face: Would raise a blush where secret vice he found; And tickle, while he gently probed the wound; With seeming innocence the crowd beguiled, But made the desperate passes while he smiled.” {51} From the end of the eleventh of Horace’s epistles (Lib. 1): “Coelum non animum mutant, qui trans mare currunt, Strenua nos exercet inertia; navibus atque Quadrigis petimus bene vivere. Quod petis, hic est, Est Ulubris, animus si te non deficit æquus.” They change their skies but not their mind who run across the seas; We toil in laboured idleness, and seek to live at ease With force of ships and four horse teams. That which you seek is here, At Ulubræ, unless your mind fail to be calm and clear.