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Excerpt from A Discourse of English Poetrie: 1586
Webbe was as much affee'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. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
