Even these May-morning Exordia, in which he was but following a fashion-faithfully observed both by the French trouveres and by the English romances translated from their productions, and not forgotten by the author of the earlier part of the "Roman de la Rose"-always come from his hands with the freshness of natural truth.
"Chaucer"
Adolphus William Ward
In respect to the more antient Exordia above quoted, especially that of Terpander, I take the words to be an imitation, rather than a translation, of a hymn sung at Delphi in the antient Amonian language; the sound of which has been copied, rather than the sense, and adapted to modern terms of a different meaning.
"A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I."
Jacob Bryant