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Thomas Phaer
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“I that my slender oaten pipe in verse was wont to sound Of woods, and next to that I taught for husbandmen the ground, How fruit unto their greedy lust they might constrain to bring, A work of thanks: Lo now of Mars, and dreadful wars I sing, Of arms, and of the man of Troy, that first by fatal flight Did thence arrive to Lavine land, that now Italia hight.”
Thomas Phaer (1510–1560) said by 1560 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Beginning of the first Book of the Aeneidos of Virgil, as quoted in The Oxford History of Poetry in English, Vol. IV (Oxford University Press, 2022), p. 269