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Thou that deliver'd hast so many, be
So kinde of nature, to deliver me!
But stay: for though the learn'd Chronologer
Of Dunkerk, doth confesse him freed by her;
The subt'ler Poets yet, whom wee translate
In all this Epick Ode, doe not relate
The manner how; and wee are loth at all
To vary from the Dutch Originall.
Deeds they report, of greater height than these;
Wonders, and truth; which if the Court-wits please,
A little helpe from Nature, lesse from Art,
May happily produce in a Third part.
So kinde of nature, to deliver me!
But stay: for though the learn'd Chronologer
Of Dunkerk, doth confesse him freed by her;
The subt'ler Poets yet, whom wee translate
In all this Epick Ode, doe not relate
The manner how; and wee are loth at all
To vary from the Dutch Originall.
Deeds they report, of greater height than these;
Wonders, and truth; which if the Court-wits please,
A little helpe from Nature, lesse from Art,
May happily produce in a Third part.
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