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... Parca non mendax dedit et malignum spernere...

dedit...spernere: Poet. with inf.: “da mihi frui perpetuā virginitate,” allow me, Ov. M. 1, 486; id. ib. 8, 350: “di tibi dent captā classem reducere Trojā,” Hor. S. 2, 3, 191; so id. ib. 1, 4, 39; id. Ep. 1, 16, 61; id. A. P. 323 et saep. L. & S. s.v. "do." Perhaps: "allows me to spurn/scorn/ despise the envious crowd" --those who don't care for lyric poetry.