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 1 Pref  |    even by great authors: when Homer, so many ages since, did
 2 Praise|        seem to me no less than Homer’s gods drunk with nectar
 3 Praise|        is, in spite of Hesiod, Homer, nay and Jupiter himself,
 4 Praise|       sea, nor in any of blind Homer’s as blind caves: but in
 5 Praise|       as much as, according to Homer, Nestor’s discourse was
 6 Praise|      other people, than either Homer’s Jupiter with his crooked
 7 Praise|      morose of the gods out of Homer and the rest of the poets,
 8 Praise|    carelessly,” as says Father Homer, that is to say, without
 9 Praise|        therefore, according to Homer’s example, I think it high
10 Praise|     the true prudence, such as Homer though blind may be said
11 Praise|      so many hazards. Nor does Homer, that father of trifles,
12 Praise| believe himself handsomer than Homer’s Nereus. Another, as soon
13 Praise|       makes not everyone rich. Homer’s Jupiter bestows not empire
14 Praise|  mouths at.” And Telemachus in Homer, whom the poet praises so