several other articles, which he had not leisure to complete; and it
is said that "some of the before mentioned printed pieces have not all
the perfection which our ingenious author could have given them, but
that is not the case with his excellent translation of Pastor Fido."
[Footnote: Biographia Britannica.]

That translation is highly complimented by Denham, who observes,

"Such is our pride, or folly, or our fate,
That few but such as cannot write translate;"

and after censuring servile translators, he says--

"Secure of fame, thou justly dost esteem
Less honour to create than to redeem;
That servile path thou nobly dost decline,
Of tracing word by word, and line by line."

And,

"That master's hand, which to the life can trace
The air, the line, the features, of the face,
May with a free and bolder stroke express
A varied posture, or a flatt'ring dress;
He could have made those like, who made the rest,
But that he knew his own design was best."

Part of Sir Richard Fanshawe's official correspondence, during his
embassies in Spain and Portugal, was published in 1701, from which
many extracts have been printed at the end of this volume; but the