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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=344369" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>To His Worthy Friend Doctor Witty Upon His Translation Of The Popular Errors</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sit further, and make room for thine own fame,<br>Where just desert enrolles thy honour'd Name<br>The good Interpreter. Some in this task<br>Take of the Cypress vail, but leave a mask,<br>Changing the Latine, but do more obscure<br>That sence in English which was bright and pure.<br>So of Translators they are Authors grown,<br>For ill Translators make the Book their own.<br>Others do strive with words and forced phrase<br>To add such lustre, and so many rayes,<br>That but to make the Vessel shining, they<br>Much of the precious Metal rub away.<br>He is Translations thief that addeth more,<br>As much as he that taketh from the Store<br>Of the first Author. Here he maketh blots<br>That mends; and added beauties are but spots.<br>Caelia whose English doth more richly flow<br>Then Tagus, purer then dissolved snow,<br>And sweet as are her lips that speak it, she<br>Now learns the tongues of France and Italy;<br>But she is Caelia still: no other grace<br>But her own smiles commend that lovely face;<br>Her native beauty's not Italianated,<br>Nor her chast mind into the French translated:<br>Her thoughts are English, though her sparkling wit<br>With other Language doth them fitly fit.<br>Translators learn of her: but stay I slide<br>Down into Error with the Vulgar tide;<br>Women must not teach here: the Doctor doth<br>Stint them to Cawdles Almond-milk, and Broth.<br>Now I reform, and surely so will all<br>Whose happy Eyes on thy Translation fall,<br>I see the people hastning to thy Book,<br>Liking themselves the worse the more they look,<br>And so disliking, that they nothing see<br>Now worth the liking, but thy Book and thee.<br>And (if I Judgement have) I censure right;<br>For something guides my hand that I must write.<br>You have Translations statutes best fulfil'd.<br>That handling neither sully nor would guild</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Andrew+Marvell">Andrew Marvell</a><div class=q>
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Where just desert enrolles thy honour'd Name
The good Interpreter. Some in this task
Take of the Cypress vail, but leave a mask,
Changing the Latine, but do more obscure
That sence in English which wa..."></div>
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