poetrie

• I cannot abide them), rascally verses, poetrie, poetrie, and speaking of interludes; 'twill make a man burst to hear him. —  Every Man in His Humor
• And plide my-selfe to fruitles poetrie, —  The Spanish Tragedie
• Robertus Browning his poetrie, or to Emerson hys laste discourse att ye Musicke Halle. —  The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 5, May, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
• Lodge, Sidney and the other defenders of poetry retorted that poetry had a noble function--the teaching of morality, and that an occasional poem which did not serve this purpose did not invalidate the claims of poetry as a whole Gosson writes The right use of auncient poetrie was to have the notable exploytes of worthy captaines, the holesome councels of good fathers and vertuous lives of predecessors set down in numbers, and sung to the instrument at solemne feastes, that the sound of the one might draw the hearers from kissing the cup too often, and the sense of the other put them in minde of things past, and chaulke out the way to do the like. —  Rhetoric and Poetry in the Renaissance A Study of Rhetorical Terms in English Renaissance Literary Criticism
• It was the Gentiles oratorie, yet not without the Holy Ghost’s rhetorick, that did almost perswade Agrippa to be a Christian; and it was the Gentiles poetrie, but not without a Deitie in the verse, that taught the Athenians to know an unknown God. —  The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning

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