Excerpt from Horse Foot: Or, Pilgrims to ParnassusGives mortals two, and parsons three or four, Though five's sheer folly, and brute instinct' more And I'll uphold when men and gods have done, That e'en a poet has his right to one.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.