ABSTRACT
It was fit I should name some Poem of this Nature, which is Spencer's Fairy Queen, wrote in Imitation of the Old Latin Poets, with Hexameter and Pentameter Verses, some in this present Age pretend to imitate. But the Grace of that Poem seems to consist more in the Design, than Curiosity of Rhyme or Expressions; Not but in the Times when he wrote, viz. between 1530 to 1596, (at which time he dyed) I have no Reason to doubt that it was an Approved Poem, tho' now unwarrantably imitable, without Affectation of treading in the Steps of Antiquity.
