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 country famous for being misrepresented and frigidized in poetry,—Arcadia,—are all copies after humanity; the action is simple; the incidents necessary, and happily interwoven; the images, as Dryden has observed in contradistinction to those of Guarini, all rural and proper; the event at once new, unexpected, and natural. Lovers, and those who know lovers, will know how to account for what may seem exaggerations of feeling; and as to the language, which has sometimes shared the objection made against those pastorals cut in paper, which have been seen in latter times, the poet, with a happy artifice, makes Love account for the elegance of it in his Prologue:—

Queste selve oggi ragionar d'Amore S'udranno in nuova guisa: e ben parassi, Che la mia Deità sia qni presente