"I woulde not haue any man
that in
praysing of Poetry I endeuor to approue Virgils vnchast Priapus, or
Ouids obscenitie: I commend their witte, not their wantonnes, their
learning, not their lust: yet euen as the Bee out of the bitterest
flowers and the sharpest thistles gathers honey, so out of the filthiest
\ Fables may profitable knowledge be sucked and selected.
praysing of Poetry I endeuor to approue Virgils vnchast Priapus, or
Ouids obscenitie: I commend their witte, not their wantonnes, their
learning, not their lust: yet euen as the Bee out of the bitterest
flowers and the sharpest thistles gathers honey, so out of the filthiest
\ Fables may profitable knowledge be sucked and selected.
Ovid - Some Elizabethan Opinions of the Poetry and Character of OVid
