<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=457266" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Written In Montaignes Essays. Given To The Duke Of Shrewsbury In France, After The Peace</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Dictate, O mighty judge, what thou hast seen<br>Of cities and of courts, of books and men,<br>And deign to let thy servant hold the pen.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Through ages, thus, I may presume to live,<br>And from the transcript of thy prose receive<br>What my own short-lived verse can never give.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thus shall fair Britain, with a gracious smile,<br>Accept the work, and the instructed isle<br>For more than treaties made shall bless my toil.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Nor longer hence the Gallic style preferr'd,<br>Wisdom in English idiom shall be heard,<br>While Talbot tells the world where Montaigne err'd.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Matthew+Prior">Matthew Prior</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=457266" data-title="Written In Montaignes Essays. Given To The Duke Of Shrewsbury In France, After The Peace de Matthew Prior" data-description="Dictate, O mighty judge, what thou hast seen Of cities and of courts, of books and men, And deign to let thy servant hold the pen. Through ages, thus, I may presume to live, And from the transcript of thy prose receive What my own short-lived ver..."></div> </div> </div>

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