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Page 77 - commeth to you with words sent in delightfull proportion, either accompanied with or prepared for the well inchaunting skill of Musicke : and with a tale forsooth he commeth vnto you: with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner. And pretending no more, doth intende the winning of the mind from wickednesse to vertue.
Page 71 - teaching which must be the right describing note to know a Poet by : although indeed the Senate of Poets hath chosen verse as their fittest rayment, meaning, as in matter they passed all in all, so in maner to goe beyond them : not speaking (table talk fashion or like men in a
Page 76 - force of a diuine breath, he bringeth things forth far surpassing her dooings, with no small argument to the incredulous of that first accursed fall of Adam: sith our erected wit, maketh us know what perfection is, and yet our infected will, keepeth vs from reaching vnto it. 2
Page 61 - And yet I must say, that as I haue iust cause to make a pittiful defence of poore Poetry, which from almost the highest estimation of learning, is fallen to be the laughingstocke of children. So haue I need to bring some more auaileable proofes : sith the former is by no man barred of his deserued
Page 76 - only the Poet, disdayning to be tied to any such subiection, lifted vp with the vigor of his owne inuention, dooth growe in effect, another Nature, in making things either better than Nature bringeth forth, or quite a newe formes such as neuer were in nature : so as hee goeth hand in hand with Nature, not inclosed within the narrow warrant of her guifts,
Page 30 - being vsed shorte as one sillable, when it is in verse stretched out with a Diastole is like a lame Dogge that holdes up one legge. But it is to be wonne with Custome, and rough words must be subdued with Use. For why a Gods name may not we, as else the Greekes,
Page 76 - There is no Arte deliuered to mankinde, that hath not the workes of Nature for his principal! object, without which they could not consist, and on which they so depend, as they become Actors and Players as it were, of what Nature will
Page 5 - hardinesse takes displeasure. Wherwith loue to the hartes forest he fleeth, Leauyng his enterprise with paine and crye, And there him hideth and not appeareth. What may I do ? when my maister feareth, But in the field with him to liue and dye, For good is the life, endyng faithfully.
Page 37 - The Hexamiter verse, I graunt to be a Gentleman of an auncient house (so is many an English begger), yet this Clyme of ours he cannot thriue in : our speech is too craggy for him to set his plough in : hee goes twitching and hopping in our language like a man running
Page 71 - to the name of Poets It is not riming and versing that maketh a Poet, no more then a long gowne maketh an Aduocate : who though he pleaded in armor should be an Aduocate and no Souldier. But it is that fayning notable images of vertues, vices, or what els, with that delightfull teaching which must be the right describing