The three groats Author:Giovanni Battista Casti Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 243 THE TRANSLATOR'S EPILOGUE. Hail, fellow Rhymsters all! bo of good cheer: Pluck up new courage Fortune to oppose; And hold in utter scorn the World of ... more »prose: Henceforth to you unfolds a bright career! Each Poet now may be his own cashier: We've here a panacea 'gainst all woes, With means to bid defiance to our foes; Nor dinners' want nor durance need we fear. And tremble ye vile Duns! obnoxious race ! For now a brother Bard, in moving strains, Has taught us how to liquidate a debt And treat a Creditor in future case; Like this one, gibbetted and hung in chains, Tuck'd in terrorem up to all the set! NOTES. Note 1. Sonnet xiii. Father G. Daniel, a french historian of the seventeenth century, author of the work entitled " A Voyage to the World of Descartes," wherein he examines that philosopher's fanciful hypotheses. Note 2. Sonnets xxviii. xci. This is the Cicada or Balm-Cricket; one of the Grylhis family; and, however it be classed, certainly of the stridulous species. It is common to the South of Europe. In the Natural History of this Insect are given some amusing accounts of its obstreperous loquacity, as if it seemed to wish to make up in noise for its deficiency in other means of attracting notice or powers of mischief, for in every other respect it is a perfectly harmless creature. Anacreon has honoured the Cricket by making it the subject of one of his Odes, the 43rd; and which has been very prettily imitated, or rather paraphrased, in a Sonnet, by the italian poet C. M. Maggi. There is also a very beautiful english Sonnet addressed to it—in conjunction with its cousin of the hearth, by Mr. Leigh Hunt. In Southey's History of Brazil (vol. i. cap. 5 ) there is a curious anecdote about one of these creatures being the means of ...« less