"I love the memory of Vinny Bourne. I think him a better Latin poet than Tibullus, Propertius, Ausonius, or any of the writers in his way, except Ovid, and not at all inferior to him."
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Vincent Bourne
Vincent Bourne (familiarly known as Vinny Bourne; 1695 – 2 December 1747), was an English classical scholar and Neo-Latin poet.
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