Written In Montaignes Essays. Given To The Duke Of Shrewsbury In France, After The Peace Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABB CDE FFG HHI| Dictate O mighty judge what thou hast seen | A |
| Of cities and of courts of books and men | B |
| And deign to let thy servant hold the pen | B |
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| Through ages thus I may presume to live | C |
| And from the transcript of thy prose receive | D |
| What my own short lived verse can never give | E |
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| Thus shall fair Britain with a gracious smile | F |
| Accept the work and the instructed isle | F |
| For more than treaties made shall bless my toil | G |
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| Nor longer hence the Gallic style preferr'd | H |
| Wisdom in English idiom shall be heard | H |
| While Talbot tells the world where Montaigne err'd | I |
Matthew Prior
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