" George
Grote, from whose volumes on Plato I quote this translation of the
passage, placed "Ion" among the genuine dialogues of Plato.
{73} Guards, trimmings or facings.
{74} The Second Summary.
{75} Causes of Defect in English Poetry.
{76} From the invocation at the opening of Virgil's AEneid (line
12), "Muse, bring to my mind the causes of these things: what
divinity was injured . . . that one famous for piety should suffer
thus."
{77} The Chancellor, Michel de l'Hopital, born in 1505, who joined
to his great political services (which included the keeping of the
Inquisition out of France, and long labour to repress civil war)
great skill in verse. He died in 1573.
{78} Whose heart-strings the Titan (Prometheus) fastened with a
better clay. (Juvenal, Sat. xiv. 35). Dryden translated the line,
with its context -
"Some sons, indeed, some very few, we see
Who keep themselves from this infection free,
Whom gracious Heaven for nobler ends designed,
Their looks erected, and their clay refined."
{79} The orator is made, the poet born.
{80} What you will; the first that comes.
{81} "Whatever I shall try to write will be verse." Sidney quotes
from memory, and adapts to his context, Tristium IV. x. 26.
"Sponte sua carmen numeros veniebat ad aptos,
Et quod temptabam dicere, versus erat."
{82} HIS for "its" here as throughout; the word "its" not being yet
introduced into English writing.
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