CHAUCER: Troylus and Cryseyde.

If... some perfect platform or Prosodia of versifying were . . .
sette downe.

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WEBBE: Discourse of Eng. Poetrie.

. ratifyed and

A Poet, no industrie can make, if his owne Genius bee not carried unto
it. . . . Yet . . . must the highest flying wit have a Dedalus to guide him. —
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY: Apol. for Poetrie.

Gif Nature be nocht the cheif worker in this airt, Reulis wilbe bot a
band to Nature ...; quhair as, gif Nature be cheif, and bent to it, reulis
will be ane help and staff. . . .· KING JAMES I.: Reulis and Cautilis, &c.

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Poesie therefore may be an Art in our vulgar, and that verie methodicall
and commendable. — PUTTENHAM (?): Arte of Eng. Poesie.

But the best conceptions cannot be, save where science and genius are. -
Trans. from DANTE: De Vul. Eloq.

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