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 Whether with rustic or heroic men, There am I,—Love; and inequality, As it may please me, do I equalize; And 'tis my crowning glory and great miracle, To make the rural pipe as eloquent, Even as the subtlest harp.

It should be observed at the same time, that the language of the Aminta, though raised above rusticity into politeness, is looked upon in Italy as a model of natural and unconspired grace, amounting to the simple and naïve. The thoughts are sometimes too artificially contrasted, and this produces a similar look in the words; but the latter in themselves are always easy and natural; and both the language, and the interest, as a whole, are so much what they are said to be, that although in the earlier part of the transla-