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 train of the Duke's brother, Cardinal Luigi, to whom the piece was dedicated; his early epic poem, Rinaldo, had given him an additional grace of introduction, to a court that piqued itself on its taste; and though the trumpet of his greater epic, the Jerusalem, which he had already begun to fashion, has carried his name to the ears of after ages with so much gravity and loftiness, he was at that time, by his own confession, and as his Miscellaneous Poems abundantly testify, a great lover of the fair sex; sowing his panegyrics, and reaping his smiles, in all the sunny favour of southern vivacity.

It was not, however, till six years afterwards, that the Aminta was produced. Our young poet, in the mean time, seems to have been too much in request, to render any new recommendation of him necessary; and therefore, in the intervals of