Note 64 — CANTO I.
Reading edition
Edward Fairfax, natural son of Sir Thomas Fairfax, of Denton, in Yorkshire, who executed a most beautiful translation of the "Jerusalem Delivered," which was published in 1600. Collins, in apostrophizing Tasso, does not forget his congenial translator:
How have I sate while piped the pensive wind, To hear thy harp by British Fairfax strung; Prevailing poet, whose undoubting mind Believed the magic wonders that he sung. Ode on Scottish Superstitions.
Fairfax also wrote the History of Edward the Black Prince, which has never been published.