book one of spenser's faerie queene begins with four lines supposed to
be imitative of verses found at the beginning of some medieval and
renaissance editions of _the aeneid_:
Lo I the man, whose Muse whilome did maske,
As time her taught, in lowly Shepheards weeds,
Am
book one of spenser's faerie queene begins with four lines supposed to
be imitative of verses found at the beginning of some medieval and
renaissance editions of _the aeneid_:
Lo I the man, whose Muse whilome did maske,
As time her taught, in lowly Shepheards weeds,
Am now
These are the notorious verses alleged by Donatus and Servius to have
been removed from the beginning of the Aeneid by its first editors:
Ille ego qui quondam gracili modulatus auena
carmen, et egressus siluis uicina coegi
ut quamuis auido parerent arua colonis
These are the notorious verses alleged by Donatus and Servius to have
been removed from the beginning of the Aeneid by its first editors:
Ille ego qui quondam gracili modulatus auena
carmen, et egressus siluis uicina coegi
ut quamuis auido parerent arua colonis
