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s, the piety of aeneas, the valourof achilles, the isfortunes of hector, the treachery of n, thefriendship of euryas, the nerosity of alexander, the boldness ofcaesar, the clency and truth of trajan, the fidelity of zopyr, thewisdo of cato, and short all the faculties that serve to ake anilstrio an perfect, now unitg the one dividual, agadistributg the aong any; and if this be done with 插r ofstyle and nio vention, aig at the truth as uch aspossible, he will assuredly weave a web of bright and varied threadsthat, when fi射d, will display such perfection and beauty that iill atta the worthiest object any writg can seek, which, as isaid before, is to give struction and pleasure bed; for theunrestricted ran of these books enables the author to show hispowers, epic, lyric, tragic, or ic, and all the oods the sweet andng arts of poesy and oratory are capable of; for the epic aybe written prose jt as well as verse&ot;

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which the canon pursues the subject of the books of chivalry,with other atters worthy of his wit

&ot;it is as you say, senor canon,&ot; said the curate; &ot;and for thatrean those who have hitherto written books of the rt deserve allthe ore censure for writg without payg any attention to goodtaste or the rules of art, by which they ight guide theselves andbee as fao prose as the o prces of greek and lat poetryare verse&ot;

&ot;i yself, at any rate,&ot; said the canon, &ot;was once tepted towrite a book of chivalry which al