Imitated [from Buondelmonte]
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Imitated [from Buondelmonte]
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Title/Paratext] "[Prose translation by J. R. [...]" H.W. Starr/J.R. Hendrickson, 1966.
"[Prose translation by J. R. Hendrickson:]
"Imitated from Buondelmonti"
Sometimes Cupid sports veiled in the cloak of friendship and disguises his presence under garments all in decent array. Presently he puts on a cloak of anger and assumes a threatening expression; then his look of hatred swiftly melts into tears. Fly from him when he is in a sportive mood, neither put any trust in him, whether he weeps or rages: his face may change, but he is always the same god."
Works cited
- The Complete Poems of Thomas Gray: English, Latin and Greek. Edited by Herbert W. Starr and J. R. Hendrickson. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1966.
Contractions, italics and initial capitalization have been largely eliminated, except where of real import. Initial letters of sentences have been capitalized, all accents have been removed. The editor would like to express his gratitude to library staff at Pembroke College, Cambridge, at the British Library, and at the Bodleian Library, Oxford, for their invaluable assistance.