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

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

Jeremiah Holmes Wiffen translation

Until the surety comes whom I oblige With my Jerusalem, which I indite, Prune, polish, and correct from morn till night. Epistle to Gaspar de Barrionuevo.

What ideas of taste, correctness, elegance, and order, must the writer have had, who with such diligence and study, produced so wild a work!

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