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For my part I will stick to my credulity, and if I am cheated, think it worse for him [the translator] than for me. The Epic Poem is foolishly so called, yet there is a sort of plan and unity in it very strange for a barbarous age; yet what I more admire are some of the detached pieces – the rest I leave to the discussion of antiquarians and historians; yet my curiosity is much interested in their decision.
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