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With a tale forsooth he cometh unto you, with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner.
An Apology of Poetry, or The Defence of Poesy (1595)
Sweet food of sweetly uttered knowledge.
An Apology of Poetry, or The Defence of Poesy (1595)
There have been many most excellent poets that never versified, and now swarm many versifiers that need never answer to the name of poets.
An Apology of Poetry, or The Defence of Poesy (1595)
The poet...nothing affirmeth, and therefore never lieth.
An Apology of Poetry, or The Defence of Poesy (1595)
Certainly, I must confess my own barbarousness, I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet.
An Apology of Poetry, or The Defence of Poesy (1595)
Poetry, a speaking picture... to teach and delight
An Apology of Poetry, or The Defence of Poesy (1595)