XXIV. LE MEUNIER, SON FILS ET L'ANE

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8. Autrefois à Encan, Malherbe &c. Malherbe, surnamed the reformer of French poetry, was born at Caen in 1555, and died at Paris in 1628. He was a good poet, but the somewhat extravagant praise of Boileau bas given him among the poets of France, a place to which he is not more entitled than several other poets. Eacan, the disciple of Malherbe, is celebrated by Les Bergeries, a somewhat sleepy poem in very fine verses. Born in 1589 he died in 1670. He was then much younger than Malherbe.

9. rivaux d'Horace, Malherbe and Racan were certainly good poets, but certainly not rivais of Horace, uniess it be in the art of merely writing verses, for good versification may be very indiâ'erent poetry.

10. Apollon, the God of poetry and arts &c., son of Jupiter and Latona.