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 Besides James himself, several of the poets who frequented the Scotish court at that period, as Th. Hudson, R. Cockburn, and A. Colville, prefixed to this work, sonnets in praise of the translator, in which he is not only preferred to the ancients, but to the French Ronsard and Du Bartas, and the English Surry. I imagine, are alluded to with disapprobation, by Hume of Logie in his Sonnet on Amatory Poetry, p. 199.; for all the names of heroes and heroines, whose passion he ridicules, occur following verses of the Triumph of Love:

The style of Fowler is often quaint, affected, and full of antithesis; while it exhibits much of the tinsel of Italian amatory poetry. In his, which