Excerpt from Seventy Sonnets of Camoens: Portuguese Text and Translation; With Original Poems I have almost invariably strictly followed the order of the rhymes, a matter of considerable difficulty in English. Of our language, in this respect, we may well say with Fielding, in his Amelia Rhymes are difficult things; they are stubborn things, sir. Of the facilities for rhyming in the Portuguese I have already said enough in my Introduction to the Lusiads. Now and then (but in only two or three cases) I have been forced to change their order; the better to pre serve the feeling of the original; and this has been the case even in the famous No. XIX. Further. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.