“Take pains the genuine meaning to explore,
There sweat, there strain, tug the laborious oar;
Search every comment that your care can find,
Some here, some there, may hit the poet's mind.”

—  Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon

Source: Essay on Translated Verse (1684), Line 179.

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