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Article WISDOM AND FOLLY: A VISION. ← Page 6 of 7 →
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Wisdom And Folly: A Vision.
' Glorious song I glorious execution 1 ' exclaimed that enraptured Queen . ' Who of my most favourite rhymers can compress more of the essence of our own poetry into so small a space ? You have as completely excluded common-sense in these few lines as any of the Delia Crusca school , ( so deservedly dear to Queen Folly ) after labouring through hundreds of verses . Glorio ' iis indeed " was Delia
. Crusca ! glorious in himself— -the cause in others of glorious effects I Much imitative nonsense tve OAVB to his ori ginal potvers . ' " Formosi pueri custos formosior ipse . " - With Avhat rapidity A'ersified nonsense , setting off from Delia Crusca , spread from fool to fool . When Crusca announced himself
by a lo \ 'e sonnet , Anna Matilda imitated it by a piece of nonsense almost equal to the original . Laura Maria folloAved next ; then Carlos , Orlando , Reuben , Miranda , Leonardo , Adelaide—all \ yas nonsense and Delia Crusca !' Thus Esop records , that where one ass has contributed his quota towards the formation of a river , other asses are equally liberal in
their productions . The waters of the asses' and of Delia Crusca and ' Co . though less pure than those of Flippoc ' rene , flow AA'ith abundance of ease . My subjects generall y took to poetry ; but to a poetry that marked their zealous loyalty to Folly . Laura Maria , Delia Crusca , Anna' Matilda—what they attempted established more and more ( if after one attempt there had been any doubt ) their claim to
be indigenous subjects to Folly . With them , as with many others of my poets , the words of one of my greatest enemies are verified : " Some have for AA-its , and then for poets pass'd ; " Turn'd critics next , but prov'd plain fools at last . "
* Heaven confound Gyfford for chiving my poets away from that mode of rendering me service ! He hath done much evil to the cause of Folly : the Lord reward him according to his works ! But though he silenced them as rhymers , he has not stopped them as writers . I have set Laura Maria to compose romances , in which she succeeds AvonderfuIIy ; and writes as complete nonsense in prose as ever she did in verse . '
' Heaven forbid Gyfford attack the Otranto school of romances as he did the Delia Crusca school of poetry ; otherwise my dear Hobgoblins , the delight of every Fool , may be driven from the face of the earth . ' But Opera , howcameyouto countenance that old Spanish Duenna , Margery , I think , they call her ? Is there any thing in her story
friendly to me or mine ? Is it not decidedl y favourable to the enemy ? Why did you suffer a AA'ork to be honoured with your name , Opera , which is so contrary to my interests and your practice ? That Sherry , ( so I think they call the author ) is a-native of the higher regions of Wisdom , a denizen of Wit and Humour . Why did you encourage such a man ? His very songs are against me , That fellow has
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Wisdom And Folly: A Vision.
' Glorious song I glorious execution 1 ' exclaimed that enraptured Queen . ' Who of my most favourite rhymers can compress more of the essence of our own poetry into so small a space ? You have as completely excluded common-sense in these few lines as any of the Delia Crusca school , ( so deservedly dear to Queen Folly ) after labouring through hundreds of verses . Glorio ' iis indeed " was Delia
. Crusca ! glorious in himself— -the cause in others of glorious effects I Much imitative nonsense tve OAVB to his ori ginal potvers . ' " Formosi pueri custos formosior ipse . " - With Avhat rapidity A'ersified nonsense , setting off from Delia Crusca , spread from fool to fool . When Crusca announced himself
by a lo \ 'e sonnet , Anna Matilda imitated it by a piece of nonsense almost equal to the original . Laura Maria folloAved next ; then Carlos , Orlando , Reuben , Miranda , Leonardo , Adelaide—all \ yas nonsense and Delia Crusca !' Thus Esop records , that where one ass has contributed his quota towards the formation of a river , other asses are equally liberal in
their productions . The waters of the asses' and of Delia Crusca and ' Co . though less pure than those of Flippoc ' rene , flow AA'ith abundance of ease . My subjects generall y took to poetry ; but to a poetry that marked their zealous loyalty to Folly . Laura Maria , Delia Crusca , Anna' Matilda—what they attempted established more and more ( if after one attempt there had been any doubt ) their claim to
be indigenous subjects to Folly . With them , as with many others of my poets , the words of one of my greatest enemies are verified : " Some have for AA-its , and then for poets pass'd ; " Turn'd critics next , but prov'd plain fools at last . "
* Heaven confound Gyfford for chiving my poets away from that mode of rendering me service ! He hath done much evil to the cause of Folly : the Lord reward him according to his works ! But though he silenced them as rhymers , he has not stopped them as writers . I have set Laura Maria to compose romances , in which she succeeds AvonderfuIIy ; and writes as complete nonsense in prose as ever she did in verse . '
' Heaven forbid Gyfford attack the Otranto school of romances as he did the Delia Crusca school of poetry ; otherwise my dear Hobgoblins , the delight of every Fool , may be driven from the face of the earth . ' But Opera , howcameyouto countenance that old Spanish Duenna , Margery , I think , they call her ? Is there any thing in her story
friendly to me or mine ? Is it not decidedl y favourable to the enemy ? Why did you suffer a AA'ork to be honoured with your name , Opera , which is so contrary to my interests and your practice ? That Sherry , ( so I think they call the author ) is a-native of the higher regions of Wisdom , a denizen of Wit and Humour . Why did you encourage such a man ? His very songs are against me , That fellow has