Copy 1, Volume 5

The doctor &c / [Robert Southey].

  • Robert Southey
Date:
1834-1847
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The doctor &c / [Robert Southey]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and he then became so famous by his well- known name Bajardo, that for the sole purpose of winning this horse and the sword Durlin- dana which was as famous among swords as Bajardo among horses, Gradasso came from India to invade France with an army of an hundred and fifty thousand knights. If Nobs had been like him, think what a confusion and consternation his appearance would have pro¬ duced at Doncaster races ! Ecco appare il cavallo, e i calci lira, E fa saltando in del ben mille rote; Delle narici il foco accolto spiray Muove Vorecchie, e Vempie membra scuote; A sassi, a sterpi, a piante ei non rimira, ^ Ma fracassando il tutto, iota e penx be; Col nitrito i nemici a fiera guerra Sfida, e co pie fa rimbombar la tierra.* Among the Romans he might have been in danger of being selected for a victim to Mars, on the Ides of December. The Massagetee would have sacrificed him to the Sun, to whom horses seem to have been offered wherever he * Tasso.