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The Works of Garcilasso de la Vega, Surnamed the Prince of Castilian Poets, Translated into English Verse

Note J — Chapter IV · FROM THE ARGENSÓLAS AND OTHER POETS TO GONGÓRA.

Jeremiah Holmes Wiffen translation

"But when to lash loose vices you aspire, And seek to catch the true satiric fire, All others' leaves pass over, all neglect, But Juvenal's, the shrewd and circumspect; None to the high court-taste with such success Feels the town's pulse—ev'n Horace's is less."

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