Nor would I scruple, with a due regard,
To read sometimes a rude unpolished bard,
Among whose labours I may find a line,
Which from unsightly rust I may refine,
And, with a better grace, adopt it into mine.

— Marco Girolamo Vida De Arte Poetica (1527)

Nec dubitem versus hirsuti saepe poetae
Suspensus lustrare, et vestigare legendo,
Sicubi se quaedam forte inter commoda versu
Dicta meo ostendant, quae mox melioribus ipse
Auspiciis proprios possim mihi vertere in usus,
Detersa prorsus prisca rubigine scabra.

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Book III, line 196

Nor would I scruple, with a due regard,
To read sometimes a rude unpolished bard,
Among whose labours I may find a line,
Which from unsightly rust I may refine,
And, with a better grace, adopt it into mine.

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Nor would I scruple, with a due regard,To read sometimes a rude unpolished bard,Among whose labours I may find a line,Which from unsightly rust I may refine,And, with a better grace, adopt it into mine.

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Nor would I scruple, with a due regard,
To read sometimes a rude unpolished bard,
Among whose labours I may find a line,
Which from unsightly rust I may refine,
And, with a better grace, adopt it into mine.