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Excerpt from A Discourse of English Poetrie: 1586
Webbe was as much affeé'ted with the immoderate modefly' with which, five years later, he charged Will mot, as any of the writers Of that age. He dreads, at p. 55, the unauthorized publication of his verfion of the Georgia, and he mull. Have been moved deeply by 'the rude multitude Of ruflicail Rymers, who will be called Poets' before he ventured to advocate in print 'the reformation of our Englifh Verfe, ' i.e., the abandonment Of Rhyme for Metre.
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