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