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What divine in his sermon, or grave counsellor in his oration, will allege the testimony of a rime ? But the divinity of the Romans and Grecians was all written in verse ; and Aristotle, Galen, and the books of all the excellent philosophers are full of the testimonies of the old poets. By them was laid the foundation of all human wisdom, and from them the knowledge of all antiquity is derived. I will propound but one question, and so conclude this point. If the were on a singing- man at Abingd...on. The riming epitaph begins : — ' ' Hie jacet Henricus, semper pietatis amicus ; Nomen Abyngdon erat, si quis sua nomina quaerat, " &c. 1 Ben Jonson remembered this passage when, in conversation with Drummond of Hawthornden, " He cursed Petrarch for reducting verses into sonnets, which, lie said, was like that tyrant's bed where some who were too short were racked, others too long cut short. " 236 OBSERVATIONS IN THE ART Italians, Frenchmen and Spaniards, that with com- mendation have written in rime, were demanded whether they had rather the books they have published (if their tongue would bear it) should remain as they are in rime, or be translated into the ancient numbers of the Greeks and Romans, would they not answer into numbers ?
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