Note 150 — CABINET OF BIOGRAPHY. (continued 7)
Reading edition
To this wreck, and to his escape he refers in the prophetic song in the tenth Lusiad when he speaks of the river Mecon—
"Upon his soft and charitable brim The wet and shipwrecked song receive shall he, Which in a lamentable plight shall swim From shoals and quicksands of tempestuous sea, The dire effect of exile,—when on him Is executed the unjust decree, Whose repercussive lyre shall have the fate To be renowned more than fortunate." Lusiad, canto X. stanza 128.—Fanshaw's Translation.