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Then dearest sweet and ever charming Three, List to the pleadings of the tuneful Nine Without whose intercession as you see I dare not venture nigh your triple shrine, Fearful and anxious lest neglected duty Has hurt me in the eyes of so much beauty. And this translation too I was to send In weekly numbers and in solid prose With learned annotations at the end, And all those aids to timid authors’ throes. But I suspect that this with me is morally Impossible, I rather do it orally.