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53) §5. Doggerel . XIII. Prosody from Chaucer to Spenser. Vol. 3. Renascence
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...similar but even worse welter in serious verse, which has given the fifteenth century in English poetry so bad a name that some native historians have often said...
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56) §18. James Kirke Paulding. V. Bryant and the Minor Poets. Vol. 15. Colonial
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