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in the course of a few days after this inauspicious interview with
his new patron, he entered on the duties of his office; but he
awaited in vain the expected summons to the promised audience. At
length the duke honestly and honourably acknowledged, that his
reserve was owing to some private information he had received to
his disadvantage. This proved to be really the case; for Tassoni
discovered that some of his enemies had been secretly doing him ill
offices with the duke. which delicacy forbids me to take any
further notice. Descriptions, which would sully the page of
history, may not only be endured, but pardoned, in a burlesque
poem. Accordingly we do not consider as misplaced in the Trivia of
Gay, booh ii. /. 297? 300, an incident somewhat similar to the one
which I have excluded from the text.?Having noticed the Trivia, I
shall take this occasion to observe, that it is one of the
burlesque poems which may be said to have emanated from La Secchia
Rapita. It is, howeverl a mock-heroic of a peculiar kind; it is a
didactic poem, ?-a poem " in the plan and execution of which," as
Dr. Aikin justly observes, " Gay has undoubtedly the claim of an
in- " venter." Lett, on a Course of Eng. Poet. p. 53. Tassoni had
reason to rejoice, that, in consequence of the machinations of the
secretaries, he had only to endure the frowns, and not, iike
Marino, to suffer from the wrath of the duke. Amongst the many
interesting incidents in the eventful life of Mariuo, we find that
Murtola, one of the secretaries of the court, whose life had been
recently spared at the requisition of Marino, basely, unjustly, and
ungenerously accused him of slandering the duke in his juvenile
poein entitled La Cuccagni, and succeeded, K " The secretaries of
the court," says Muratori, " beheld, with an ...
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