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Show 79 Notes lThe usual l<;twyers, a nt hat flgure, view he is is that Donne is Coscus emp,oyj_ng ridiculing as a vice felgned example. 2Compare whose statement about the lost reflection of our failing to recog potential power of poetrv: "Among the Romanes a Poet \\7as-' called Vates, which is as much as a diviner, foreseer, or-- As of Albinus the Governour of Prophet our Iland, who in his childhood met with this verse Arma amens capio, nec sat rationis in armis: and in his age performed it, although it were a verie vaine and godlesse superstition, as also it was to think spirits were cOMTIaunded by such verses, whereupon this wo r d Charmes, derived of Carmina, cornmeth: so yet serveth it to shew the great reverence those wittes were held in, and not altogither not without power to nize the charm Sidney, is a .... ground Sidney, Def§nce, . . II . p. 6. 3Erasmus, De utrague verborem ac rerum coJ?j_9_, Donald B. King, On Copia of Words and Ideas, Mediaeval Philosophical Texts in Translation, no. 12 (Milwaukee: Marquette University Press, 1963), p. 11. trans. 4cf. Satyre V whe r e even judges are not exempt from attack. SMilgate's note image is not designed engender pity. to line elicit to 82 is misleading. disgust as much as The to |
