“As yet unfold the event on no pretense,
'Tis your chief task to keep us in suspense.”

—  Marco Girolamo Vida

Book I, line 98
De Arte Poetica (1527)

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Primus at ille labor versu tenuisse legentem Suspensum, incertumque dia qui denique rerum Eventus maneant.

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