Note 50 — TRANSLATIONS FROM JUVENAL. (continued 2)
Reading edition
In illustration of Holyday's miserable success in his desperate attempt, we need only take the lines with which he opens:
Shall I be still an auditor, and ne'er Repay that have so often had mine eare Vexed with hoarse Codrus Theseads? shall one sweat While his gownd comique sceane he does repeat, Another while his elegies soft strain The reader? and shall not I vex them again? Shall mighty Telephus be unrequited, That spends a day in being all recited? Or volume-swoln Orestes, that does fill The margin of an ample booke; yet still, As if the book were mad too, is extended Upon the very back, nor yet is ended.