Chapter 5

If Jones of Chelsea should bedeckWith virgin’s head a horse’s neck,And decorate this monstrous birthWith limbs of all the beasts on earthAnd many-coloured wings, would youContain your laughter at the private view?Horace,Ars Poetica, 1–5.

If Jones of Chelsea should bedeckWith virgin’s head a horse’s neck,And decorate this monstrous birthWith limbs of all the beasts on earthAnd many-coloured wings, would youContain your laughter at the private view?Horace,Ars Poetica, 1–5.

If Jones of Chelsea should bedeckWith virgin’s head a horse’s neck,And decorate this monstrous birthWith limbs of all the beasts on earthAnd many-coloured wings, would youContain your laughter at the private view?Horace,Ars Poetica, 1–5.

If Jones of Chelsea should bedeckWith virgin’s head a horse’s neck,And decorate this monstrous birthWith limbs of all the beasts on earthAnd many-coloured wings, would youContain your laughter at the private view?

If Jones of Chelsea should bedeck

With virgin’s head a horse’s neck,

And decorate this monstrous birth

With limbs of all the beasts on earth

And many-coloured wings, would you

Contain your laughter at the private view?

Horace,Ars Poetica, 1–5.


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