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Puttenham, George, -1590

"The Arte of English Poesie"

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The manner of reioysing at weddings and marriages, specially of great
Ladies and Gentlewomen and Dames of honour. 40
The manner of poesie by which they vttered their bitter tauntes
or priuy nippes, and witty scoffes and other merry conceits. 43
What manner of poeme they vsed for memorial of the dead. 45
An auncient forme of poesie by which men did vse to reproch their
enimies. 46
Of the short poeme called with vs posie. 47
Who in any age have beene the most commended writers in our English
poesie, and the Authors censure giuen vpon them. 48

The Table of the second booke.

Of proportion poeticall. fol. 53
Of proportion in Staff. 54
Of proportion in Measure. 55
How many sortes of measures we use in our vulgar. 58
Of the distinctions of mans voice and pauses allowed to our speech,
& of the first pause called Ceszure. 61
Of proportion in concord called Rime. 63
Of accent, stirre and time, evidently perceyued in the distinction
of mans voice, and in that which maketh the flowing of a Meetre.


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