History of Spanish and Portuguese Literature (Vol 2 of 2)

Note 275 — CHAP. III. HISTORY OF PORTUGUESE POETRY AND ELOQUENCE, FROM THE LATTER YEARS OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY UNTIL TOWARDS THE CLOSE OF THE SEVENTEENTH.

Thomasina Ross translation

No es dar liberdad de consciencia, para introducir siempre escorias y licencias, sino advertir que un hombre grande puede hazer tal vez lo que quisiere, y es gravissime crimen el pedirlo cuenta; y mas, si se lo pide algun Pigmeo en estudios y en juizio.

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