That the Latin poets have done thus, appears through Virgil, where he saith that Juno (to wit, a goddess hostile to the Trojans) spake unto Æolus, master of the Winds; as it is written in the first book of the Æneid, _Æole, namque tibi, etc._; and that this master of the Winds made reply: _Tuus, o regina, quid optes—Explorare labor, mihi jussa capessere fas est._ And through the same poet, the inanimate thing speaketh unto the animate, in the third book of the Æneid, where it is written: _Dardanidæ duri, etc._ With Lucan, the animate thing speaketh to the inanimate; as thus: _Multum, Roma, tamen debes civilibus armis._ In Horace, man is made to speak to his own intelligence as unto another person; (and not only hath Horace done this, but herein he followeth the excellent Homer), as thus in his Poetics: _Dic mihi, Musa, virum, etc._ Through Ovid, Love speaketh as a human creature, in the beginning of his discourse _De Remediis Amoris_: as thus: _Bella mihi, video, bella parantur, ait._ By which ensamples this thing shall be made manifest unto such as may be offended at any part of this my book. And lest some of the common sort should be moved to jeering hereat, I will here add, that neither did these ancient poets speak thus without consideration, nor should they who are makers of rhyme in our day write after the same fashion, having no reason in what they write; for it were a shameful thing if one should rhyme under the semblance of metaphor or rhetorical similitude, and afterwards, being questioned thereof, should be unable to rid his words of such semblance, unto their right understanding. Of whom, (to wit, of such as rhyme thus foolishly,) myself and the first among my friends do know many.