I have one word to say upon ornament.

It was my wish and labour that my translation should have far more of the _genuine_ ornaments of Virgil than my predecessors.

Dryden has been very careless of these, and profuse of his own, which seem to me very rarely to harmonise with those of Virgil; as, for example, describing Hector's appearance in the passage above alluded to, 'A _bloody shroud_, he seemed, and _bath'd_ in tears.
I wept to see the _visionary_ man.' Again, 'And all the wounds he for his country bore Now streamed afresh, and with _new purple ran_.' I feel it, however, to be too probable that my translation is deficient in ornament, because I must unavoidably have lost many of Virgil's, and have never without reluctance attempted a compensation of my own.

Had I taken the liberties of my predecessors, Dryden especially, I could have translated nine books with the labour that three have cost me.

The third book, being of a humbler character than either of the former, I have treated with rather less scrupulous apprehension, and have interwoven a little of my own; and, with permission, I will send it, ere long, for the benefit of your Lordship's observations, which really will be of great service to me if I proceed.