Note K — Chapter IV · FROM THE ARGENSÓLAS AND OTHER POETS TO GONGÓRA.
Jeremiah Holmes Wiffen translation
"What of the swain Anchises shall I say, But ask Idalian Venus by the way Who is the gardener of those flowers of hers, Or Ida's pencil who her fancy stirs? Did not Ulysses farm the watery waste? How then could he Calypso's fruitage taste?"
What ridiculous nonsense! Will any one believe that these are by the same author, and found in the same piece as the following?—
"Come, then, fair mountaineer, hide not nor flee, Thou, by thy marriage with this stream, shalt be Queen of the sweetest waves that in their sweep Love to give lustre to the shady deep. 'Tis just that thou respond to love's light pain, With kind acknowledgment, not coy disdain."