ABSTRACT

Homers the Captain of Apollo's race: Renowned Virgil claims the second place: Spenser, our glorie tis' thy golden pen Admitts thee third before all other men. Sage Homer, Virgil, Spenser Laureat Make a poetical Triumvirat. Greece, Rome, and England chaleng to your merits T'haue nurst the brauest Heliconian spirits. Only King Dauid's muse, Jehoua's birth, Excells, as much as Heau'n excells the earth.